Every year, 50,000 Andalusians are diagnosed with cancer.

This Sunday was celebrated International Cancer Day, a disease that the WHO says is on the rise, with cases estimated to increase by 77% between now and 2050.

This Monday at Wake up Andalusia we spoke with Ana Laura Ortega, President of the Andalusian Society of Medical Oncology and oncologist David Vicente BazHead of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville.

Ana Laura Ortega indicates that “there are several reasons why the number of cases is increasing because, among other things, we are living longer, but others are smokingHe Life styleHe passive lifestyleIn addition, there is an increase in cases as We are diagnosing more and more”. According to the doctor, “every year about 50,000 Andalusians are diagnosed with a new cancer. The average survival rate is 60%.”

Regarding smoking, Ortega adds: “If we eliminated the influence of tobacco, we would reduce by 30% cases of tumors in general and up to 80% in some specific cases, such as bladder or lung cancer.” morbidity V women compared to 10 years ago, and “it is related to tobacco use.”

“There has been an increase in the incidence of breast cancer,” he says. colon in people between 30 and 50 years old, and we have not proven that it is related to lifestyle.

The doctor claims that “quality care cancer in our country at the level of other countriesHe insists on the importance of early diagnosis: “Treatment is more effective if it is carried out on time (…) “For colon or breast cancer, the cure rate exceeds 90%.”

About the opportunity vaccine cancer, Dr. Ortega recalls that “when we talk about cancer, we are talking about more than 200 different diseases.”

For his part, the oncologist David Vicente BazHead of the Department of Medical Oncology at the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville, tells us about the development of a plan to combat cancer, “Strategy against cancer in Andalusia” which was launched in 2021. He explains that he is trying to fight the disease in a holistic way and that after three years the plan has achieved its goals.

The doctor assures that in “Andalusia there are many clinical trials which allow us to develop cancer treatment strategies.