- All the time there is a belief that breast cancer is a sentence. This is also why women do not go for examinations. Cancer is the plague of the 21st century," said MP Barbara Dziuk. In her opinion, although we have an increasing number of good systemic solutions, in order for them to translate into results, it is necessary to raise health awareness on the one hand, and on the other - greater involvement of medical staff, doctors and nurses.
Prof. Barbara Radecka argued that it is necessary to focus on health education, which in a perspective of several or more years will translate into a significant increase in the percentage of people who actively care about their health, also in the dimension of using preventive examinations. In her opinion, however, systemic changes are also necessary, because not only prophylaxis (low percentage of beneficiaries), but also diagnostics (bureaucracy, bottlenecks due to organizational errors or low financing) translate into the fact that cancer is detected in Poland late, often - too late. Meanwhile, medicine has more and more and better solutions to offer. - We are at the stage of determining gene mutation status. If drugs dedicated to specific mutations appear in reimbursement it will be important for diagnostics to work efficiently so that patients can benefit from these drugs, the expert said. Meanwhile, there are too few genetic clinics, and at the moment too few women - relative to the needs - can benefit from such tests at all. In addition, the whole process takes time, because it has to take time. - Genetic diagnosis is counted in weeks, and it is impossible to speed it up, which is due on the one hand to considerations of the technologies used, on the other hand to the equi...
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