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In Mexico, the breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death in womenTherefore, radiologist Janett Lizzet Sánchez Cortés, a graduate of the BUAP, indicated that mammography is not a painful study, but it implies having empathy with the patients; his diagnosis helps not to be part of the statistic.
Therefore, the personnel of the health area fulfills a fundamental role, as Sanchez Cortes that with human sense attends to women who practice mammography in the University Hospital of Puebla (HUP) for more than one of each.
The radiologist graduated from the BUAP acknowledged that their work is an important aspect for the early diagnosisTherefore, he chose a career in radiology because he felt the need to help people, but from a different perspective, contributing to the timely detection of pathologies from your work area.
His work implies a first filter, since the studies he carries out are the history of early diagnosisespecially if it is breast cancer, although there are other pathologies in this part of the body that are not necessarily cancer.
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However, the mammography always generates in most women complex feelings because of the physical and emotional implications.
Treatment of patients during the study
The radiologist from the city of Puebla said that “some patients come to the study with fearwith the stress of how it will be, especially because there is a myth that it is very painful, when it is not, or because they are simply afraid that they will find some type of cancer in their results”.
“That’s why I like to talk with them, support them and let them know that cancer is not always going to be detectedbut on the contrary, if they carry out this study as it should be, having a mammogram done annually, they can be calmer because if a inconvenience can be treated in timeor,” he said.
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In this regard, he pointed out that the HUP has several specialists on the subject. “All this is explained to women, both university and external, they are treated in the same way so that they are always comfortable with the information that we provide them, in such a way that they return annually to practice the mammography”
Every year 1.38 million new cases of breast cancer and 458 thousand deaths in the world from this disease. In 2019, for every 100,000 women aged 20 or over, reported 35.24 new cases.
In recent years, the number of deaths caused by this disease has alarmingly increaseddue to the delay in starting treatment, hence the importance of a timely diagnosis.
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Edited by Fernando Cortijo
R: DJ
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