Cancer cases are increasing every year and people need to be warned

On the occasion of National Cancer Day, the news is that cancers are developing alarmingly in Brazil and Umuarama does not hesitate. According to the National Cancer Institute Jose Alencar Gomes da Silva (Inca) in the 2018 estimate, the country will record about 600,000 new cases of the disease between 2018 and 2019.

Data from the Uopeccan Hospital show that a day in Umuarama, 350 interventions are performed in the area of ​​oncology, including care, exams, surgeries and treatments. Among the cancers with the highest incidence in the city for women are breast and cervix. Among men, the prostate is the busiest.

The profile of cancer incidence in Brazil varies by region and is more similar to the developed countries of the South and Southeast regions, with more intestinal tumors and a lower incidence of cancer of the cervix. uterus in women and stomach in men.

In Paraná, the type of disease with the highest incidence is prostate cancer, with a forecast of 5,480 cases, followed by breast with 3,730 cases.

In the Northeast and Northeast regions, the incidence of stomach cancer is higher in men and that of cervical cancer in women. Both types of cancer are more associated with infections, have better prevention potential, and have a higher incidence in less developed countries.

Men should have more cancer cases than women in 2018, with about 300,000 cases, while they should have 282,000 new cases.

Non-melanoma skin cancer is the most prevalent in the country, the second being prostate cancer in men and breast cancer in women.

The president of the European Society of Medical Oncology, Josep Tabernero, recalls that "40% of cancer cases could be avoided by adopting healthy habits", such as the reduction of smoking, obesity and the consumption of alcohol.

Prostate

In Paraná alone, the Department of Health recorded 990 deaths from prostate cancer in 2018. In this scenario, the Italian urologist Fioravanti Junior emphasizes the importance for men over the age of 40 preventive examinations every year.

According to data from the National Cancer Institute (Inca), prostate cancer is the second most common type of tumor in Brazilian men and, according to the urologist, the patient heals at over 90 % with early detection of the disease.

Fioravanti explains that prostate cancer has no early symptoms. In this way, the man only discovers the disease when the tumor is advanced. Hence the importance and the need for annual review.