Mexico City. The application of the therapy molecular target is one of the more advanced therapies that applies to the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) in patients with cancer of the breast, colon, kidney, and lymphomas.
the director of The Oncology Hospital of the National Medical Center Siglo XXI, Pedro Mario Escudero of the Rivers, explained that the therapy molecular target consists of prescribed drugs designed to act directly on abnormal cells of the tumor.
In the World Day for the Fight against Cancer, he pointed out that the application of the treatment can be monthly, half yearly or for one year, with the agreement of the tumor and its factor tumor.
therapy molecular target is supplied with chemotherapy or after it as part of a procedure to combat the cancer cells, a protocol that helps to better control or eradicate the disease.
In a statement, he added that the Social Security has updated its table of chemotherapy drugs applied intravenously or in oral form, in addition, it offers other options of treatment such as surgery or radiation therapy.
he Stressed that with the campaigns of prevention and detection throughout the country provided care and timely treatment, which has decreased mortality, particularly in patients with cervical cancer and of lung.
with Respect to breast cancer, the mortality curve has dropped due to campaigns to perform mammography and to the advancement of treatment options such as therapy molecular target.
Squire of the Rivers referred to tumors of the lung, trachea, and bronchi occupy the first place in mortality, followed by breast, prostate, colon and rectum, as well as liver and stomach, respectively, neoplasms that represent the highest percentage of death.
In that sense, he insisted on avoiding smoking, obesity (a factor that increases the risk of breast cancer, and prostate cancer); avoid exposure to the sun’s rays for long periods without skin protection.
in Addition, he called on the population to have a healthy nutrition, avoid the excessive consumption of fats, eat vegetables, vegetables, fish, white meat, in a smaller proportion of red meat, and exercise because it activates different systems and defense mechanisms in the body.
in the presence of a symptom that does not go away from the first intention, the specialist recommended going to the doctor; in the case of women, performed the pap smear, mammography from 40 years, and in men, the study of the prostate or the prostate-specific antigen after 60 years of age.
people who smoke or who are exposed to chemicals studies are performed of the chest at least once a year, with the purpose of early detection of any tumor, and care for her at early, recommended.
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