Under the slogan ‘AEACaP en route’, this conference brought together people affected by lung cancer and professionals to address this type of pathology from a multiple perspective.
This meeting periodically travels to hospitals to report on the work of the association, which aims to provide psychological and human support, advice and the promotion of research to meet the needs of lung cancer patients and their relatives. . As a result of the onset of the pandemic, these meetings are held electronically.
It is estimated that each year about 700 cases of lung cancer are diagnosed in the Region. The most common cancer in men is prostate cancer, with 20 percent, followed by lung (15 percent of cases), bladder (12 percent), colon (10 percent) and rectum (5 percent). hundred).
In women, the most frequently registered cancer is breast (30 percent), followed by colon (9 percent), uterine corpus (6 percent) and thyroid (5 percent). All of them together account for almost half of the cancer cases registered in women. Lung cancer reaches 5 percent of cases.
Tobacco is the main cause of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In the Region of Murcia it is estimated that there are about 297,000 smokers and that tobacco causes about 1,600 deaths each year.
Abstaining from tobacco and alcohol, eating a balanced diet, and doing physical exercise are measures that contribute to improving the quality of life and survival.
SMOKE FREE ENVIRONMENTS
The Ministry of Health promotes awareness campaigns to address this strategy, especially from an early age. This responsibility involves achieving a smoke-free environment that protects non-smokers and offering help to those who smoke and wish to quit.
Thus, it develops campaigns such as ‘Escuela sin Humo’, to train students towards a critical attitude towards tobacco and in this way contribute to delaying the age of initiation of consumption, as well as training teachers.
It also carries out the ‘Smokeless Beaches’ program, which provides information and awareness material on the effects of tobacco and provides resources to mark the beaches and inform about the project, with the voluntary adhesion of coastal municipalities.
The Region also has programs such as ‘Argos’ for the prevention of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis in the adolescent population and awareness programs within the Education Plan for Health at School.
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