The survival rate for breast cancer is 96% at five years if detected early.

Survival of breast cancer, the most common cancer among women: in Spain there are 35,000 new cases and more than 6,600 deaths every year, 96% five years after detection of the disease if done in the early stagesalthough this percentage drops to 38% if diagnosed at an advanced stage.

This was stated in her presentation by Pilar Rivero, an oncology specialist at the Barbastro Hospital (Huesca). Advances in breast cancer developed this Thursday at the opening of XXXVII Aragonese Congress of Primary Health Care

which is celebrated in Zaragoza until this Saturday.

The doctor also emphasized that, despite the success in implementing detection campaigns,The disease develops in approximately one in three diagnosed patients.“, adding that we are experiencing a period of great advances in treatment using numerous therapeutic innovations that allow individual management of each patient, taking into account the diversity of this cancer.

Rivero emphasized in this forum that most breast cancer diagnoses “they lack a hereditary factor” and only about 10% are due to a genetic change in predisposition that does not predict 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%.

The role of primary health care in the fight against breast cancer is “crucial”. said this is the path towards prevention and early detection, as well as multidisciplinary treatment to control the progression of the disease.

Vaccination

On this first day, Inmaculada Cuesta, nurse and secretary of the National Association of Nurses and Vaccines, also emphasized the importance of primary care physicians in reaching users and promote higher vaccination coverage 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.

Presentations at the 37th Aragonese Congress of Primary Care will focus on the role of this specialty in issues such as assisted reproduction, psychiatric care, early diagnosis of chronic kidney disease, control of smoking patients or emergency pediatrics.