Breast cancer is the second most important cancer among Egyptians

"According to the latest statistics published in 2018 in Egypt, breast cancer is the second most common type of cancer among the population, accounting for 17.9% of all cancers," said Ibtisam Saad al-Din, a professor of cancer. oncology at Al-Ain Palace. Women, representing 35% of all women with all types of cancer. "

"In the Middle East, it is estimated that 50% of breast cancer patients are under the age of 50. Young women are usually diagnosed at an advanced stage of the tumor, with most women under 45 years old. the third stage of the disease, and is infected with contractile tissue and larger breast tumors.

"Despite the risk of thalassemia, it can be controlled to a large extent in the light of modern advanced therapies for blood diseases, especially after the introduction of new drugs to reduce the proportion of iron in the blood under tablet form, "said Dr. Mervat Matar, professor of blood diseases at the Faculty of Ophthalmology. Taken by mouth, noting that the General Authority of Health Insurance has provided these new drugs.

Over the past 50 years, chronic melanoma has experienced a therapeutic advance that has turned it from an incurable disease solely through bone marrow transplants to a disease that can be cured by targeted therapies, which which is a breakthrough in the treatment of tumors in general, in particular, where the number of patients who have undergone a bone marrow transplant has decreased from 34% to less than 3% in the previous five years.

"Studies have shown that this second generation of targeted therapies has improved survival rates by almost 90%," she said, noting that the patient was able to live a normal life.

"It's important to be able to quickly detect breast cancer in the hope of a full recovery," said Dr. Javerkorts, director of the Breast Cancer Program at the University Hospital. from Val d 'Dibon to Barcelona.