Medical Association: A group of diseases that can be controlled by conscious struggle – Cyprus Newspaper

The Turkish Cypriot Medical Association (KTTB) stressed that cancer is a group of illness that can be controlled by conscious struggle, not fate.

Union, visible tobacco struggle, cancer recording staff with the permanent and high quality structure of the registration, cancer screening to acceptable levels, and the implementation of palliative care is the most urgent tasks of the state, he said.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of the Union, Child Health and Diseases Specialist, Public Health and Protective Physician Officer Dr. Figen Gulen Ince, « 1-7 April Cancer War Week » made a statement because of.

Ince, the World Health Organization, 29.9 million new cancer cases will emerge in 2040, 15.3 million people will die due to illness, he said.

90 percent environmental development in the development of cancer, 10 percent of the genetic factors are effective, noting that Ince, « So most of the cancers are for environmental reasons. Tobacco products and obesity are important causes of cancer among environmental factors, » he said.

World Health Organization, cancer control suggestions to countries, cancers prevention, early diagnosis, treatment and palliative maintenance of a comprehensive struggle involving a comprehensive struggle, Ince, the cancer control plan, these four areas should contain extensively.

-« It is possible to control cancers »

“Some of the cancers can be prevented, some can be diagnosed early. Extending life, industrialized society, although it is not possible to reset cancers, although it is not possible to control, » said Ince, in this sense, individuals and states are the tasks falling to the state, he said.

Individuals, tobacco and tobacco products, avoiding alcohol, healthy eating, physical activities by making a part of the daily life, stressing that many cancer can prevent cancer, the state prevents cancer, early diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, palliative care in the fields of duties.

Ince, the main responsibilities of the state to prevent cancers, a serious tobacco products policy to implement, food safety, water safety, air pollution policies to fight policies, cervical cancer preventive HPV vaccine can be considered as entering the free vaccine program, he said.

-« Our screening percentage should be increased from 10 percent to 70 percent »

Ince stating that the diagnosis of cancers at an early stage increases the success of treatment and prolongs their life span.

“For this reason, for widespread cancers such as breast, cervical, colorectal, lung cancers, scans should be expanded to cover at least 70 percent of the age groups.

Figen Gülen İnce, who stated that the cancer treatment infrastructure was difficult to respond to the increasing population, said, “Cancer registration should be taken seriously for the plan and implementation of services to meet the needs, creating cadres and increasing the scope and quality of the registration. However, a realistic prediction can be developed in the coming years.

-« Patients should not be desperate only in this difficult period of life »

Stating that the quality of life of cancer patients, pain management, symptom control and psychosocial support services, cancer patients and their families are the services that need to be offered to the Ince, stressed that patients should not be desperate only in the difficult period.