Breast Cancer: IMSS Jalisco Announces Massive Screening Campaign

The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) in Jalisco has announced actions to create greater awareness of self-care and timely treatment of breast cancer.

The head of the agency in the state, Karla Guadalupe López López, said 42,000 clinical breast exams and 8,300 mammograms are planned. screening for women between 40 and 69, as well as extramural training in various institutions and companies.

In addition, he explained that the staff of the Institute, as part of the Health Fairs, will provide breast self-examination laboratories and prevention consultations in the 114 Family Medicine Units (FMU) of the institution, in addition to ongoing assistance for patients in hospitals and specialized, the same as the Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis Unit (Breast Clinic).

Breast self-examination is recommended from the age of 20 every month; clinical breast examination annually from the age of 25 and mammography every two years from 40 to 69 years.

López López explained that mammograms of 15 UMFs, 12 hospitals and the Breast Clinic will be operational, stressing that the latter has stereotaxis, a technology that allows direct biopsies to be performed in highly suspicious cases.

Part of this awareness campaign will be the formation of a pink ribbon by the staff of the central office, the lighting of the department buildings and the inauguration of the permanent exhibition “Brushstroke for life”.

For her part, the director of the Hospital of Gynecology and Obstetrics of the Medical Unit of High Specialty (UMAE), Ma. Guadalupe Soto Castañeda, added that They will also have a special program for Breast Cancer Prevention Month, which will consist of courses and workshops that claim and empower patients who have undergone cancer treatments..

These training courses will include the preparation of turbans, wigs and breast implants, as well as a master class in professional makeup, jewelry assembly, image consulting and nutritional guidance.

Both doctors agreed on the importance of promoting healthy lifestyles, including physical activity, foods rich in vegetables, fruit and vegetable and / or raw animal proteins, and PREVENIMSS Check-ups that can also be done on weekends. , since 11 Medical Units of the IMSS Jalisco, 7 UMF and 4 Polyclinics, perform mammograms on Saturdays, from 8:00 to 20:00, for those who request them in the PREVENIMSS Form.

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