Breast cancer survival rate is 96% after five years if detected early.
breast cancer survivalthe most common among women, with 35,000 new cases a year in Spain and more than 6,600 deaths, is 96% five years after discovery of the disease if it is done in the early stages, although the percentage drops to 38% if it is already detected. diagnosed in an advanced stage.
Pilar Rivero, an oncology specialist at the Barbastro Hospital (Huesca), spoke about this in the presentation “Advances in the field of breast cancer”, held this Thursday at the opening of the XXXVII Aragonese Congress of Primary Health Care, which will be held in Zaragoza until this Saturday.
The doctor also emphasized that, despite the success in implementing detection“up to one in three diagnosed patients will develop the disease,” adding that we are experiencing a period of great advances in treatment with numerous therapeutic innovations that allow individual management of each patient, taking into account the diversity of this cancer. And achieve a higher rate of disease cure, overall survival and improved quality of life for patients.
Rivero emphasized in this forum that most breast cancer diagnoses “do not have a hereditary factor” and are only about 10% is due to a genetic change in predispositionwhich does not imply the development of the disease.
Thus, the risk of breast cancer in the general population is 12%, and in patients who are carriers of the pathogenic variant it increases to 50-70%.
On the first day, Inmaculada Cuesta, nurse and secretary of the National Association of Nurses and Vaccinators, also emphasized the importance of primary care physicians in reaching users and promoting the elderly. vaccination coverage rate against influenza, Covid, pneumonia and in newborns respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) as “safe and effective”.
These are vaccines that prevent disease and, above all, complications in patients with other pathologies and the elderly, he emphasized, adding that the gradual deterioration of the immune system begins after 50 years.
Demand for help for mental health problems is growing
Mental health problems affect 27% of the population, more than one in four people, and in women the prevalence reaches 30%. Moreover, they continue to increase, especially anxiety and stress disordersand care requirements have increased by 30% since the Covid pandemic.
Dr. Javier Olivera, head of the mental health rehabilitation department of the San Jorge Hospital in Huesca, emphasized this Friday that mental illness “is increasingly commoncan appear in any context and it is important to recognize them, accept their presence and seek specialized help to begin the process of improvement.” The most common are anxiety disorders (7% of the total population), sleep disorders (6%) and depressive disorders (4.5%).
He indicated that Primary health care plays a fundamental role in early detection cases “and facilitates accurate diagnosis while avoiding psychological and functional deterioration,” and furthermore, this is where prevention can have the greatest impact.
On the other hand, during the 37th Aragonese Congress of Primary Health Care, gynecologist José Serna, medical director of IVI Zaragoza, noted that “ reproductive process without the collaboration of primary care to inform, raise awareness and manage as much information as possible to make good decisions” and noted that “fortunately, this is one of the medical groups that is changing the most in terms of public awareness of family planning care, and also diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines.”
The speaker also emphasized the revolution that artificial intelligence “because assessing the quality of eggs, sperm and embryos is a highly technical task and with much better success rates.”
Training in the face of pediatric emergency department shortages
Dr. José Miguel Martínez de Sabarte, pediatrician at the Obispo Polanco Hospital in Teruel, spoke this Saturday about how family doctors should address of care for the child population for their consultation or for ongoing care “as the current shortage of health workers, especially in rural areas, results in increasingly diverse situations being faced.”
He emphasized that while the reasons for minors presenting to the emergency department are similar to those for adults, “pathologies may present differently and require diagnostic approach and treatment, which can sometimes vary greatlywhich poses a problem for the doctor.”
Among the most common cases of consultation in these services are respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, pathologies of the urinary and otorhinolaryngological systems, head injuries, accidental ingestion….. everything is different for a three-month-old child than for a three-year-old child or a 14-year-old teenager.” .