The CECOVA stresses that “the best way to eradicate breast cancer is early detection”

Valencia, 2011-October the Council of nursing of the Comunitat Valenciana (CECOVA) and the colleges of nursing in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante called yesterday, on the eve of the celebration of the world day against breast cancer, to undergo periodic reviews for the early detection of this type of disease because it is the má methods effective to prevent the condition, which remains the leading cause of death tumour in developed countries women ”.

Nursing of the Comunitat Valenciana collegiate organizations recalled that around 17% of women in the age of 45 to 69 years in which there is an increased risk of developing breast cancer is not a mammogram, the most effective method to detect in time and prevent this disease.

Valencia are detected around 2,000 each year, being breast cancer cases diagnosed mainly after 45 years, is when the screening program starts while in Spain each year is diagnosed breast cancer to a total of 16,000 women. It should be noted that if this diagnosis is carried out in the first stage of the tumor, the cure rate can reach 90%, for this is essential establish effective measures of detection and self-examination is one of them.

The President of the CECOVA, José Antonio Avila Olivares, considered a tremendous error not to participate in breast cancer screening programmes by the fear of the diagnosis or for other reasons ”. Thus explained that nurses among its primary tasks are the promotion of health, therefore it is their duty to inform and educate women in the detection of this type of disease, but need the involvement of the Administration with the actual development of effective measures for the prevention and early detection of this type of tumor ”.

Furthermore, Ávila Olivares indicated that is the duty of nurses inform and educate women about the measures that should be taken before such diseases; influencing the detection of risk factors for women associated with these diseases as well as providing support to women who suffer consequences arising from this disease ”.