Month: October 2011

80% Of breast cancer patients retain the chest

80% of breast cancer patients retain the chest

international against breast cancer day

-screening and pre surgical treatments that allow to reduce the size of the tumor are key to the conservation of the breast.

-health of the woman Dexeus led the first conservative treatment in 1982as a result of its commitment to improve the quality of life of patients.

Barcelona, October 2011.- Breast cancer is the most common tumor among women around the world but has undergone a major change in the last decade thanks to scientific, technological and medical advances that have allowed increased not only the rate of survival to disease but also the quality of life of patients. Health of the Dexeus women, Department of obstetrics, Gynecology and reproduction of USP Instituto Universitario Dexeus, as the center of international reference in the treatment of gynecological and breast pathologies, is carrying out a campaign of dissemination and social awareness on the occasion of the international day against breast cancerthat commemorates today 19 October 2011.

According to data from the American Cancer Society (2011), one of every eight women in the world padecerá of breast cancer. Health of the woman Dexeus is comprehensively the health of patients, which allows not only a diagnosis early but also start treatment in less than a week after the diagnosis. Thanks to the screening of the tumor, the survival rate has increased in the past two decades from 50% to 90% today.

Since he led the first conservative treatment of the breast, in 1982, the Dexeus women health objective has been to improve the quality of life of patients, and this means reducing the period of diagnosis and treatment, offer an integral accompaniment before, during and after treatment, and preserve the breast to the extent possible. The aesthetic and psychological component of breast loss greatly influences the acceptance of the process and even the evolution of the disease. Health of the woman Dexeus has managed to raise the rate of breast conservation up to 80%, according to the data extracted from the Committee of Gynecology Oncology and Mammalogy of the Instituto Universitario Dexeus (2010). This high rate of preservation is due to the early detection of cancer: 20% of cancers are detected in phase pre cancerous Gynecologic patients revision habits and new diagnostic techniques available to the Centre.

They are also much involved in this success implementation of pre surgical treatments which reduce the tumor. Before the operation, apply chemotherapy patients to reduce the size of the tumor, allowing less intervention into the breast. In addition, the speed in the diagnosis and treatment is vital for conservation: Dexeus women health gives time to visit patients at a maximum of 48 hours; in two hours, it offers a first diagnosis, in 2 days is confirmed, and a week starts the treatment. This is possible thanks to the interdisciplinary Committee of health of the woman Dexeus, which allows the patient in the center professionals that accompany you throughout the process: review, diagnosis, treatment and support.

The gynecological, review the key to early detection

Health of the woman Dexeus appealed to prevention in order to detect early diseases such as breast cancer. Regular gynecological revisions and mammography scheduled biennially from the age of 40 have helped the detection of the tumor before entering the more aggressive phase of the disease, but does not affect breast cancer only to women in its mature stage.

While the common from the age of 40 breast cancer, there are 15% of these cases detected in young women. It is women aged between 20 and 40 years, many of whom have family cancer risk. In rare cases, the disease in girls from 18 to 20 years has been identified including.

Health of the woman Dexeus firmly believes that social awareness is a very important tool as diagnostic techniques to detect and treat breast cancer.

Dexeus women health

Women’s health is a center of international reference in the field of obstetrics, Gynecology and reproductive medicine. For more than 40 years its objective is to care for the health of women in all stages of its life and respond in a comprehensive manner.

For this reason, its facilities, integrated into the complex of USP Instituto Universitario Dexeus in Barcelona, have been designed to provide a more personalized attention, fast and easy, thanks to an integrated circuit in which diagnoses, treatments, consultations and interventions are centralized. Health of the woman Dexeus, directed by Dr. Pedro N. Barri, has become one of the most important centres of Europe dedicated exclusively to the health of women.

For more information about the world day of breast cancer-related activities, see Salut of dona la Dexeus

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The CECOVA stresses that “the best way to eradicate breast cancer is early detection”

el CECOVA stresses that “ the best way to eradicate breast cancer is early detection ”

Ávila urges women who are in the age between 45 to 69 years to undergo periodic reviews to make corresponding mammography

Valencia, 2011-October the Council of nursing of the Comunitat Valenciana (CECOVA) and the colleges of nursing in Valencia, Castellón and Alicante called yesterday, on the eve of the celebration of the world day against breast cancer, to “ undergo periodic reviews for the early detection of this type of disease because it is the má methods effective to prevent the condition, which remains the leading cause of death tumour in developed countries women ”.

Nursing of the Comunitat Valenciana collegiate organizations recalled that around 17% of women in the age of 45 to 69 years in which there is an increased risk of developing breast cancer is not a mammogram, the most effective method to detect in time and prevent this disease.

Valencia are detected around 2,000 each year, being breast cancer cases diagnosed mainly after 45 years, is when the screening program starts while in Spain each year is diagnosed breast cancer to a total of 16,000 women. It should be noted that if this diagnosis is carried out in the first stage of the tumor, the cure rate can reach 90%, for this is essential establish effective measures of detection and self-examination is one of them.

The President of the CECOVA, José Antonio Avila Olivares, considered “ a tremendous error not to participate in breast cancer screening programmes by the fear of the diagnosis or for other reasons ”. Thus explained that “ nurses among its primary tasks are the promotion of health, therefore it is their duty to inform and educate women in the detection of this type of disease, but need the involvement of the Administration with the actual development of effective measures for the prevention and early detection of this type of tumor ”.

Furthermore, Ávila Olivares indicated that “ is the duty of nurses inform and educate women about the measures that should be taken before such diseases; influencing the detection of risk factors for women associated with these diseases as well as providing support to women who suffer consequences arising from this disease ”.

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Experts stress the importance of early detection to get breast cancer happens to be a “chronic illness”

specialists highlight the importance of early detection for breast cancer happens to be one “ chronic disease ”

del CÁNCER DE MAMA day

hundred new cases are detected each year in the Hospital Provincial de Castellón

Castellón, 2011-October the Consortium hospital Provincial de Castellón specialists have highlighted, with motif of the day world of breast cancer held today, the importance of early detection to ensure that this tumor will become a chronic disease.

The consortium participates together with the Centre of specialties Jaime I, the Territorial Directorate of public health and the Spanish Association against cancer (AECC) in the campaign of early detection of breast cancer fueled by the Directorate-General for public health, whose front is Manuel Escolano.

The head of the radiology service of the Consortium, Miguel Angel Santamaria, pointed out that one in nine women padecerá throughout his life a lump of this type and added to “ early diagnosis is essential, since we are now trying to make this disease a chronic ”.

Specialists recommend that women 40 years who undergo a yearly mammogram and they should exist background in first degree relatives as mother or sisters it is advisable to advance exploration at age 35.

According to Santamaría, “ is a proven evidence that the diagnosis of breast cancer is becoming more common in younger women ”.

The Castellón-based hospital physicians diagnosed last year a hundred new cases of breast, according to data provided by the director of the Oncology Institute, Carlos Ferrer.

The unit of the Provincial breast pathology, which currently has a digital mamógrafo and an esteroataxia, annually about 4,000 annual explorations between postoperative controls and reviews. “ Fortunately, 90 percent of breast disease is benign ”, indicated Santamaría.

In the hospital Provincial de Castellón Consortium works, as well as than in the rest of hospitals in the province, a Committee composed of radiologists, surgeons, oncologists, pathologists, radiation, rehabilitation, and specialists in Nuclear Medicine who meet weekly to discuss those cases requiring treatments of chemotherapy and radiation therapy following surgery.

Breast of hospitals of the province committees follow the same protocol before the diagnoses of breast tumors, that before a similar tumor applies the same treatment.

Innovation

The hospital Provincial de Castellón Consortium will be the first of Spain to have with the “ Mammi-PET ”, a computer designed by Valencian researchers which can detect tumors of breast just 2 mm, which means anticipate up to one year the diagnosis of breast cancer.

The new team, which will be available to all hospitals in the province, will arrive in Castellón when they have completed the works of the new units that will be installed, as they have to meet very stringent requirements and must be supervised and authorized by the Council of Nuclear Security.

Dr. Santamaría explained that the “ Mammi ” is a new model of scanner by emission positones (PET) that has been designed exclusively for the detection of breast cancer and it’s a system “ highly innovative for the early diagnosis ”.

He explained that the patient to take the test are you inject a radiopharmaceutical with a high glucose content and added that precisely malignant breast tumor presents a great desire to this substance, which would facilitate the visualization of millimetric tumors so far were not undiagnosable.

Santamaría pointed out that the fact that the Consortium is pioneer in conducting these tests will pursue the realization of numerous research projects that will allow practitioners to deepen in the early detection of breast tumor.

Treatments

This Centre is also the only province that performs the technique of Sentinel node for the staging of early breast cancer, allowing to avoid more aggressive surgeries at armpit level.

In cases in which the study of this node is negative and the patient presents a tumor malignant less than four inches to prevent the realization of the axillary lymphadenectomy in radical.

The neoadyuvancia is another of the treatment modalities and consists in the provision of chemotherapy before surgery, which manages to reduce the size of the tumor and, therefore, be conservative surgery.

On the other hand, the application of intraoperative radiotherapy allows treating a breast tumor located in the same Act surgical resection, which can be reduced and even prevented external radiation and decrease side effects of radiotherapy.

With the momentum that the early detection of breast cancer has experienced in recent years, experts estimate that all of these proposals of conservative surgery may apply up to 45 percent of the patients.

For those cases in which not to apply because the tumor is found in an advanced state, experts advocate the reconstruction of the breast at the time of surgery or shortly after mastectomy thereby reducing the psychological impact that the patient is suffering at the loss of the breast.

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15% Of cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women under 40 years

15% of cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women aged less than 40

international against breast cancer day

– This is women aged between 20 and 40 years, many of whom have family cancer risk. Disease in girls from 18 to 20 years has been detected in isolated cases, including.

-young women, breast cancer, also implies a possible loss of fertility, fighting from Dexeus women health with techniques of preservation which allow women become mothers despite cancer.

Barcelona, October 2011.- Breast cancer is the most common tumor among women around the world but has undergone a major change in the last decade thanks to scientific, technological and medical advances that have allowed increased not only the rate of survival to disease but also the quality of life of patients. Health of the Dexeus women, Department of obstetrics, Gynecology and reproduction of USP Instituto Universitario Dexeus, as the center of international reference in the treatment of gynecological and breast pathologies, is carrying out a campaign of dissemination and social awareness on the occasion of the international day against breast cancerthat commemorates today 19 October 2011.

Regular gynecological revisions and mammography scheduled biennially from the age of 40 have helped the breast tumor detection before entering the more aggressive phase of the disease, but does not affect breast cancer only to women in its mature stage.

While the common from the age of 40 breast cancer, there are 15% of these cases detected in young women. It is women aged between 20 and 40 years, many of whom have family cancer risk. In rare cases, the disease in girls from 18 to 20 years has been identified including. The cancer risk of Dexeus women health unit recommends regular gynecological revisions and the assessment of possible genetic risk factors with the aim of attacking the disease in time. 20% Of cancers are detected in phase pre cancerous Gynecologic patients revision habits and new diagnostic techniques available to the Centre.

Breast conservation

Since he led the first conservative treatment of the breast, in 1982, the Dexeus women health objective has been to improve the quality of life of patients, and this means reducing the period of diagnosis and treatment, offer an integral accompaniment before, during and after treatment, and preserve the breast to the extent possible. The aesthetic and psychological component of breast loss greatly influences the acceptance of the process and even the evolution of the disease. Health of the woman Dexeus has managed to raise the rate of breast conservation up to 80%, according to the data extracted from the Committee of Gynecology Oncology and Mammalogy of the Instituto Universitario Dexeus (2010). This high rate of preservation is due to the early detection of cancer.

They are also much involved in this success implementation of pre surgical treatments which reduce the tumor. Before the operation, apply chemotherapy patients to reduce the size of the tumor, allowing less intervention into the breast. In addition, the speed in the diagnosis and treatment is vital for conservation: Dexeus women health gives time to visit patients at a maximum of 48 hours; in two hours, it offers a first diagnosis, in 2 days is confirmed, and a week starts the treatment. This is possible thanks to the interdisciplinary Committee of health of the woman Dexeus, which allows the patient in the center professionals that accompany you throughout the process: review, diagnosis, treatment and support.

Health of the woman Dexeus firmly believes that social awareness is a very important tool as diagnostic techniques to detect and treat breast cancer.

Dexeus women health

Women’s health is a center of international reference in the field of obstetrics, Gynecology and reproductive medicine. For more than 40 years its objective is to care for the health of women in all stages of its life and respond in a comprehensive manner.

For this reason, its facilities, integrated into the complex of USP Instituto Universitario Dexeus in Barcelona, have been designed to provide a more personalized attention, fast and easy, thanks to an integrated circuit in which diagnoses, treatments, consultations and interventions are centralized. Health of the woman Dexeus, directed by Dr. Pedro N. Barri, has become one of the most important centres of Europe dedicated exclusively to the health of women.

For more information about the world day of breast cancer-related activities, see Salut of dona la Dexeus.

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New IL3 UB seminars for continuing training in the pharmaceutical industry.

New IL3-UB seminars for continuing training in industry pharmaceutical.

Barcelona, October 2011- this autumn, the Institute of continuing education at the Universitat de Barcelona continues its programme of seminars for the pharmaceutical industry, with the collaboration of Farmaindustria and the COFB. This programme, reference in the continuous training for businesses and professionals of the sector, pursues the constant updating of knowledge, with the objective of maintaining the competitiveness of the pharmaceutical laboratories.

9 Seminars have been organized for the months of October and November 2011. These seminars offer a specialization and expansion of knowledge in several areas of the industry: research, development, technology, pharmacovigilance, statistics and biometrics, records / Marketing and Pharmacoeconomics and clinical.

Stresses, inter alia, a seminar on packaging of medicinal products: inviolability and adequacy Therapeutics, which deals with proposals such as the adequacy of the number of units (number of doses administered) of the drug to the necessary doses to the patient according to the treatment. Another of the notable seminars cake on monitoring of clinical research. International recruitment, and as maintaining participation and compliance in long-term EECC, which aims to study recruitment of patients in EECC regulations and analyze possible strategies to maintain their participation.

Created and taught by experts from the world professional and academic prestige, IL3-UB specialization courses count with the collaboration of Farmaindustria and the COFB. This extensive training, complete and qualified, along with professionals and companies that have participated in the seminars, made a reference institution Institute of continuing education of the UB.

They can expand the information on the seminars by calling (+ 34) 93 309 22 22, by e-mail to cplana@ub.edu either by clicking here.

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips