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The Minister of Public Health, Jameel Jabbak, has launched a national colon cancer awareness campaign to address the growing number of cancer patients and to reduce screening times at a conference held in the United States. Ministry of Health in the presence of the representative of the World Health Organization in Lebanon, Iman Shankiti, and the Director General of the Ministry of Public Health, Walid Ammar. And representatives of the security services and the president of the Said Society present here, Nimr, as well as a host of doctors and members of the Society of Gastroenterologists and the Lebanese Association of Doctors in malignant swelling and of the Association of Pathologists and Civil Society Activists working in the field of health.
Minister Jabbak emphasized that health is a right and a duty. Is the right of every citizen to enjoy the enjoyment and the duty to guarantee it to all the authorities, institutions and organizations concerned by those who deserve it, in accordance with the standards and controls in force? It is the title of human dignity to which it can not be subjected or derogated. It is an official, international and social duty, maintained in solidarity and solidarity. This must be the object of care and care by the state and the Ministry of Health according to their potential and their legislation. The Minister of Public Health added that health awareness is a preventative duty, of paramount importance and of highest priority for the preservation of the health and lives of citizens and the alleviation of their human and financial suffering over the years. years. He pointed out that the launch of the Colon (Colon) Cancer Awareness Campaign and its dangers was intended to highlight the considerable potential for proactively avoiding or recovering it at an early stage.
"This is the first time that the Ministry of Public Health has launched a national campaign to raise awareness of colon cancer, because of the growing number of patients and the late detection of this cancer.
He emphasized that the importance of colon cancer awareness rests on several axes:
First, it is a preventable cancer because it is one of the few cancers that can be expected to occur through early detection and the periodic outcome of a simple cost-of-care review. minus 10,000 pounds, which indicates the possible presence of benign blocks that can turn into cancer and should be removed when they are discovered.
This awareness is more important than breast cancer awareness, because the second is to encourage women to detect early cancer early. The first is motivated by a simple control to prevent it.
Secondly, the treatment of colon cancer is possible and available in Lebanon, whether surgically, by radiation or through medication. Every year, the Ministry of Public Health treats more than 330 patients at a cost of about two and a half billion Lebanese pounds. In 2017, 436 patients with colorectal cancer were treated for hospitalization, 1,253 hospitalizations, at a cost of 1 billion and 400 million pounds. If we compare the price of drugs with the price of early detection, we find that the average price of drugs per patient is US $ 5,000 a year, or US $ 20 a year. Early detection through an FIT exam is 300 USD.
Thirdly, it is a cancer that can be cured if it is detected at an early stage. The cure rate is 90%, which is very high. Early detection also reduces the suffering of the patient and his parents. Thus, early detection is the most intelligent investment possible for the health of the citizen.
For these reasons, colon cancer awareness is especially important as it helps prevent, heal and heal. No effort at the national level can succeed without everyone's efforts. All are responsible and require cooperation and solidarity to reduce it.
The Minister of Public Health has invited the Cooperative of State Employees, Social Security and Military and Security Medicine to cover the examination of early detection, noting the response that he found especially in the direction of the military, military medicine and cooperation of state employees for their willingness to cooperate in order to make this campaign a success. He also announced that the Japanese Fuji Film had donated, through the ministry, to the government hospital Rafik Hariri, a sophisticated early detection device for colorectal cancer, and provided 1,000 free FIT kits to 1,000 first unsecured people as part of the national awareness campaign. Colon cancer.
"Better to prevent than a quintile of treatment," he said.
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