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The number of new cases of breast cancer remains stable from 10 to 15 fifteen years ago, with virtually almost 90% survival, however, "there is a shift towards younger ages," Carlos Vazquez, president of the Society said Spanish for Senology and Mammary Pathology (SESPM who participated during the day at the First National day Update in Breast Cancer and Work organized by the Catholic University of Murcia through its International Chair in Evaluation and Expert Medicine. at the opening the act also intervened Antonio Alcaraz, Vice Chancellor of University Extension of the UCAM, Jose Vicente Pardo, director of the Chair, and Manuel Molina, Director General of Public Health and Addictions of the CARM.

26 thousand new cases per year

On the increase of breast cancer in younger ages, Carlos Vazquez said that now the reason is not known nor is to find a factor only, but noted that "late motherhood in women may be a factor, as well as environmental agents of very different kinds, both environmental and food. "

Spain has no record of this consolidated disease "but both cases detected in programs such as assisted women, etc. there is a close to 26 thousand new cases estimated each year," said Carlos Vazquez.

Prevention

Another issue discussed was the importance of prevention, all participants indicated as the most important factor with which it currently has.

Murcia has a program of screening for breast cancer in collaboration with the Spanish Association Against Cancer, which can detect early stage in many cases.

The Director General of Public Health and Addictions of the CARM, who said that in Murcia the prevalence of breast cancer is similar to the rest of Spain, provided data on the number of invitations that are taught, "ranging between 140 and 150 thousand women ", and the number of cancers detected" around 300 in biannual periods. "

Representatives of the hospitals in the region

The aim of the conference is to move in a simple way, and from an interdisciplinary perspective, advances in the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, and the recovery of women to get back to work.

At the conference representatives they have intervened hospitals in the region: Maria Martinez, Radiology Service Morales Meseguer;

Juan Salinas, Chief of Radiation Oncology Saint Lucia and Antonio Pinero, Surgical Oncology Service, and José Luis Alonso, Chief of Medical Oncology, both of Arrixaca.

Source: UCAM