From primary care, specialists prevent chronic non- transmitter diseases, including cancer with high incidence in the ariguanabense population. Miladis Gutierrez, a specialist in General Medicine with a Master of Transmitter Diseases and member of the care program for cancer patients, gives details of its operation in the village.
How do you get to the patient?
From the attention area to the family doctor and from various clinical and complementary examinations. The research is carried out as part of preventive work, taking into account the risk factors.
What other tests allow early treatment?
Monitoring the patient searching for hidden blood to diagnose colon cancer, mammography in women (age 45 and older), the smear test and early search for prostate cancer. From the results, secondary care is orientated with the participation of specialists to guide specific treatment, which the doctor and nurse control at the doctor's health area.
What is the role of the experts attending the program?
The specialists set up the priority level based on the diagnosis. Cancer constitutes a health problem. In 2015, it represented the leading cause of death in the city with 85 deaths.
What message would you give to the population?
It is crucial to establish that late diagnosis of the disease limits the medical procedure and therefore shortens the patient's life. The incidence of risk factors such as smoking, alcohol abuse and physical inactivity condition this behavior. Each individual should know that early diagnosis and prevention change lifestyles. We must attend consultation, do the tests and consolidate the duo: doctor / family -patient.