helps raise awareness of prostate cancer leaving you grow the moustache
an early detection improves a 90% cure
-the CBP supports the campaign ‘ Movember ’ to be held next November in different countries around the world, among which is Spain.
– each year are diagnosed in our country 18,800 new cases of this type of tumor.
Madrid, October 2011.- The circle of Prostática brachytherapy (CBP) encouraged men to participate in ‘ Movember ’, an initiative which each year is carried out in different countries around the world, which include Spain, and which aims to raise awareness of prostate cancer. This requires that men should be left believing the mustache next month of November as a way of raising awareness about male health.
The next edition of this initiative, which emerged in Australia in 2003 and is in line with the awareness campaign carried out by the CBP will begin next November 1, day in which all the men who dare to participate must be completely afeitados. Since then and throughout the month, the Mo Bros, which is how they are called the participants will have to let grow his mustache becoming human billboards that will generate conversations in your environment on prostate cancer. Iran also telling their experience and uploading photos on the page of Movember (http://es.movember.com), which must be registered.
In this way, and with the help of the Mo Sistas (women who support the Mo Bros), will help to raise funds, raise awareness and raise awareness of this type of tumor in which every year are diagnosed more than 18,800 new cases in Spain, causing the death of 5,800 men.
This awareness is key, because the asymptomatic nature of prostate cancer, men of more than 50 years (45 if there is a family history) should undergo Urologic annual reviews to verify the State of health of your prostate gland. A practice which is not yet entrenched in sanitary routines of Spanish men, due to the fear that means visiting the urologist. These periodic checks allow holding an early diagnosis and therefore, the application of proper treatment with an increase in the possibilities of healing of 90%.
Also with the detection of the tumor in its early stages, it is possible to apply a little aggressive treatments for the patient, which they maintain their quality of life and minimize side effects, as is the case of prostate brachytherapy.
This technique involves the introduction of seeds radioactive iodine-125 directly within the prostate, so that its action is concentrated in the gland and significantly reduces the possibility of radiation to reach the adjacent healthy organs (rectum and bladder). As a result, the usual such as impotence and urinary incontinence side effects, decrease greatly.
In this sense, as it has been shown in studies, prostate brachytherapy can offer a better quality of life for the patient, with other treatments such as radiotherapy and the Prostatectomy. are recently comparative study made by the Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), the Hospital de Bellvitge and the Municipal Institute of medical research (IMIM-Hospital del Mar)along with other Spanish medical institutions of prestige has so verified.
These working groups are the Onkologikoa Foundation of Gipuzkoa, the Capio Hospital General de Catalunya, the Oncology Centre of Galicia, elComplexo Hospital University of A Coruña, the Hospital Ramón y Cajal of Madrid, Regional Hospital Carlos Haya in Málaga, the Virgen del RocÃo Hospital of Sevilla, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Puigvert Foundation, and the IMOR Foundation of Barcelona.
