Experts stress the importance of early detection to get breast cancer happens to be a “chronic illness”

Castellón, 2011-October the Consortium hospital Provincial de Castellón specialists have highlighted, with motif of the day world of breast cancer held today, the importance of early detection to ensure that this tumor will become a chronic disease.

The consortium participates together with the Centre of specialties Jaime I, the Territorial Directorate of public health and the Spanish Association against cancer (AECC) in the campaign of early detection of breast cancer fueled by the Directorate-General for public health, whose front is Manuel Escolano.

The head of the radiology service of the Consortium, Miguel Angel Santamaria, pointed out that one in nine women padecerá throughout his life a lump of this type and added to early diagnosis is essential, since we are now trying to make this disease a chronic ”.

Specialists recommend that women 40 years who undergo a yearly mammogram and they should exist background in first degree relatives as mother or sisters it is advisable to advance exploration at age 35.

According to Santamaría, is a proven evidence that the diagnosis of breast cancer is becoming more common in younger women ”.

The Castellón-based hospital physicians diagnosed last year a hundred new cases of breast, according to data provided by the director of the Oncology Institute, Carlos Ferrer.

The unit of the Provincial breast pathology, which currently has a digital mamógrafo and an esteroataxia, annually about 4,000 annual explorations between postoperative controls and reviews. Fortunately, 90 percent of breast disease is benign ”, indicated Santamaría.

In the hospital Provincial de Castellón Consortium works, as well as than in the rest of hospitals in the province, a Committee composed of radiologists, surgeons, oncologists, pathologists, radiation, rehabilitation, and specialists in Nuclear Medicine who meet weekly to discuss those cases requiring treatments of chemotherapy and radiation therapy following surgery.

Breast of hospitals of the province committees follow the same protocol before the diagnoses of breast tumors, that before a similar tumor applies the same treatment.

Innovation

The hospital Provincial de Castellón Consortium will be the first of Spain to have with the Mammi-PET ”, a computer designed by Valencian researchers which can detect tumors of breast just 2 mm, which means anticipate up to one year the diagnosis of breast cancer.

The new team, which will be available to all hospitals in the province, will arrive in Castellón when they have completed the works of the new units that will be installed, as they have to meet very stringent requirements and must be supervised and authorized by the Council of Nuclear Security.

Dr. Santamaría explained that the Mammi ” is a new model of scanner by emission positones (PET) that has been designed exclusively for the detection of breast cancer and it’s a system highly innovative for the early diagnosis ”.

He explained that the patient to take the test are you inject a radiopharmaceutical with a high glucose content and added that precisely malignant breast tumor presents a great desire to this substance, which would facilitate the visualization of millimetric tumors so far were not undiagnosable.

Santamaría pointed out that the fact that the Consortium is pioneer in conducting these tests will pursue the realization of numerous research projects that will allow practitioners to deepen in the early detection of breast tumor.

Treatments

This Centre is also the only province that performs the technique of Sentinel node for the staging of early breast cancer, allowing to avoid more aggressive surgeries at armpit level.

In cases in which the study of this node is negative and the patient presents a tumor malignant less than four inches to prevent the realization of the axillary lymphadenectomy in radical.

The neoadyuvancia is another of the treatment modalities and consists in the provision of chemotherapy before surgery, which manages to reduce the size of the tumor and, therefore, be conservative surgery.

On the other hand, the application of intraoperative radiotherapy allows treating a breast tumor located in the same Act surgical resection, which can be reduced and even prevented external radiation and decrease side effects of radiotherapy.

With the momentum that the early detection of breast cancer has experienced in recent years, experts estimate that all of these proposals of conservative surgery may apply up to 45 percent of the patients.

For those cases in which not to apply because the tumor is found in an advanced state, experts advocate the reconstruction of the breast at the time of surgery or shortly after mastectomy thereby reducing the psychological impact that the patient is suffering at the loss of the breast.