HU campaign for the July Green Alert on head and neck cancer

According to Dr. Ana Carolina Pastl, head of the medical division of the UH, the goal is to perform the detection of head and neck cancers in the population by screening lesions initials, avoiding a late diagnosis.

Ana Carolina mentions that the clinical cases most affected by the diagnosis are the skin, the mouth, the larynx and the thyroid cancer and she specifies what are the symptoms that require a medical investigation: "Painful lesions on the lips and persistent hoarseness mouth, smoking patients with sore throat. "

The High Complexity Oncology Center (Cacon) of the hospital receives patients suspected of malignant lesions, detected in the basic health units, which are referred by the Maceió Regulatory Complex (Cora) or by spontaneous request, since has been diagnosed in the base unit.

The doctor talked about the importance of monitoring professionals such as dentist, otolaryngologist, bucomaxillofacial and endocrinologist for the identification of malignant lesions at an early stage, facilitating treatment and chances healing of the patient. "Prevention is in the treatment of premalignant lesions and the importance of going to the dentist frequently because it is this professional who detects lesions in the oral cavity," he said. .

"Many young patients, who do not have other risk factors, such as cigarette and alcohol consumption, poor dental hygiene and inadequate nutrition, are diagnosed Even though the treatment is better, the disease progresses faster, "says Ana Carolina Pastl, on the relationship between the increased incidence of head and neck cancer in young people and the increase human papillomavirus (HPV) in this age group of the population.