Today, the Las Joyas Community Hospital will be the stage for the reconstruction of the breasts of 44 Guanajuato residents who have overcome breast cancer.
The secretary of health, Daniel Díaz Martínez, affirmed that, through the Quality of Life Project for Our Heroines, the following supports have been completed annually: in 2019, 38 patients benefited, in 2020 others 38 patients and last year to 50 more.
During 2020, despite the health contingency and under the safe surgery protocol in times of Covid, 25 surgical procedures and 13 tattoos were performed.
In the year 2021, of the supports concluded corresponded to: 41 surgical procedures and 9 tattoos.
Currently, during 2022 with a cut to the month of May, 7 patients have benefited from the plastic surgeons of the Ministry of Health.
Breast cancer mortality in Guanajuato has remained below the national average with 16.8 percentage points compared to 18.65 national percentage points.
The accelerated growth of mortality that was recorded more than 5 years ago has slowed down.
In Guanajuato, women between the ages of 60 and 64 are the ones with the highest incidence of breast cancer.
At the state level, the incidence of malignant breast tumor is 11.98 cases per 100,000 women, while at the national level, said incidence amounts to 21.96. That is why we can consider that the state average of Guanajuato in cases of malignant breast tumors is below the national average.
There is an emotional condition and psychological damage that the consequences of breast cancer leave in women who suffer from it.
For this reason, it is considered that breast reconstruction should be part of the comprehensive treatment of these patients and that it is a fundamental part of their complete physical-anatomical, but above all psychological, rehabilitation.
Currently, the state agency has a network of reconstructive plastic surgeons in 3 Medical Units (León, Irapuato and Celaya); however, breast reconstruction for mastectomized women is not found in a portfolio of health services as part of their rehabilitation.
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