More breast cancer, less mortality.

-el doctor Víctor Acosta, surgeon oncologist mastólogo, medical director of Ceclines, points out that in Venezuela 18 per cent of cases occurs in women under 40 years of age, which confirms that the first digital mammography should be aged 35 and annuallywhich has allowed to detect small lesions it decreases mortality, despite the fact that globally there is an increased incidence of disease

Spain, July of 2011- every day there is a higher incidence of breast cancer, without knowing the cause, because its origin is multifactorial, there that cannot be primary but secondary prevention related to the diagnosticóstico early small injuries of 3 to 4 mm, which has allowed to decrease mortality.

At this time there is much controversy since the new recommendations on prevention programmes of United States breast cancer, published in 2009, desaconsejan the routine use of mammography in women aged 40 to 50 and point out that the over 50 should undergo these studies every two years and not annually.

In Venezuela specialists recommend do mammography research, i.e., the first time in patients who have no symptoms after age 35 and continue annually.

Dr. Víctor Acosta, surgeon oncologist mastólogo, President of the clinical Centre of Stereotactic, Ceclines, reveals that Venezuela 18 percent of the diagnosis of breast cancer occurs in women under age 40. This dispute if inquiry mammography is beneficial in women before age 50, has existed for some time and perhaps it will take many years to know if it is true or not. However, it is important to note that in our country a significant number of women under the age of 40, presents the disease ”.

Added the specialist, at the age of 35 women have a dense breast so that conventional mammograms is difficult to find the injury, but today digital mammography has a better resolution. if there is a relative increase of breast cancer in women under 40 years must reach the conclusion that the first mamografí(a) of the pesquisa must be aged 35 ”.

With regard to periodicity, Dr. Acosta points out it should be annual. If mammography is done and everything went well and the next day the patient begins to make a cancer, a year is the time that is required to ensure that the injury is visible to mammography, why control should be annual, wait 2 years too late ”It ruled.

Dr. Víctor Acosta.

He explains that it is important that people know that breast cancer can not do prevention primary because its origin is multifactorial, so you cannot be recommended for a patient to do something or leave to do so appears or not breast cancer. Does do is secondary prevention, which relates to the diagnosis early. It is demonstrated that digital mammography made by technicians specialized, interpreted and processed by imagenólogos, it is able to detect small lesions in an asymptomatic patient. Injury of 3 to 4 mm than in situ cure 100 percent and that can only be achieved under the discipline of digital mammography ”.

On the other hand, the mastólogo indicated that the implementation of the mammography should not be interrupted, because currently the average age of women is higher. Today women carries out activities for the elderly, so the recommendation is to make mammography until that he can attend the consultation ”.

He emphasized that while earlier greater breast cancer is diagnosed is the possibility of healing.
Currently, 30 percent of breast cancer is detected on the spot, what allows to offer to the patient 100 percent of healing, provided it is handled properly. The remaining 70 per cent is infiltrating carcinoma, in these cases, according to the size and location of the tumor, cure is close to 100 percent. The trend is to manage a chronic disease like breast cancer, a patient who had an infiltrating ductal cancer who are treated with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation therapy and is now free of the disease, should live normal, make their physical and intellectual activities with normalcy, only requires annual controls as any woman ”.