In contrast, colon cancer, one of the most prevalent tumors on the islands, has only been partially recovered as of October 2020.
As you will recall, this early detection program was very underdeveloped in this community. It was only being carried out on 20% of the target population, that is, people over 50 years of age in Menorca, Ibiza and the population assigned to the Tramuntana (Inca) sector of Mallorca.
And despite the fact that the forecasts made before the pandemic aimed to expand it to the Llevant de Mallorca healthcare area (the population attached to the Manacor hospital), the low availability of healthcare in this sector has forced this expansion to be postponed again. On the contrary, it will begin to be carried out in the Ponent sector of Mallorca, that is, on the population assigned to Son Espases as a reference hospital.
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