Early diagnosis and prevention are the key to defeating breast cancer

In Spain, 36,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in 2024. This is the assessment of the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology. This accounts for 30% of all cancers diagnosed in women. But what’s good about that? Well, thanks to scientific advances, and also thanks to prevention, survival for breast cancer it is very high, already about 86%.

So, the key words are: prevention and early diagnosis. This is very important. And the more involved the more all social components in this struggle.

Thanks to prevention and early diagnosis, mortality from this type of cancer is decreasing. Prevention methods similar to those used from the Tejerin Foundation.

Preventive measures to prevent progression of the disease

Dr. Alejandro Tejerina is responsible for Breast Pathology Center of the Tejerina Foundationat the forefront of early diagnostic methods.

He himself explained in Fin de Semana that “population screening programs begin between the ages of 45 and 50, and mammography is performed every two years until age 70. It happens differently in every part of the world, but it is observed “It’s good to start early,” he began.

“There is an advantage to completing treatment a little later, especially in patients. healthy people living their normal lives,” he explained.

So much so that “the survival rate is very high, and this has been greatly influenced by prevention and screening campaigns, increasing women’s awareness of the need to undergo mammography and then individual treatment.”