The 23rd Ibero-Latin American Congress of Dermatology (CILAD), will be held this year in Madrid, from June 30 to July 3. Within the framework of this meeting, one of the topics that will be addressed will be skin cancer, the most frequent oncological type worldwide, according to the Spanish Association Against Cancer.
This disease is addressed mainly from dermatology, a specialty in which constant innovation is made both from the point of view of treatment and prevention. At the same time, experts remind that creams, lotions and oral photoprotective drugsas well as going regularly to the specialist, can help avoid this ailment in many cases.
More than 80% of skin carcinomas are basal cell carcinomas, which are related to sun exposure.
It must be taken into account that more than 80% of the skin carcinomas are those of basal cells, which are related to sun exposure, since they usually appear in the most superficial layer of the skin. skin of the face, shoulders, back, ears and scalp. And although it generally does not have the capacity to cause metastasis, it can have a progressive growth that generates problems for the patient.
Less numerous but also frequent is the squamous Cell Carcinoma, which has the appearance of a crusted wound with bleeding around the edges. As in the previous case, it is also related to sun exposure, but this time the time accumulated over the years that the sun has been taken without protection is added. Therefore, the risk of developing this cancer increases with age.
The risk of developing this cancer increases with age.
Use of lasers and other technologies
For all these reasons, among the most outstanding training workshops that will take place at this event, there will be several dedicated to use of lasers for treatment Yet the Moh’s surgerya surgical technique used to stop this disease and early diagnosis techniques.
“This is an outpatient intervention with local anesthesia, simple but very precise, which consists of progressively extracting and analyzing the affected skin layers in thin slices. In this way, the cancer can be eliminated practically in its entirety without damaging the healthy tissues that surround it, at the same time that it is verified in real time that all the cancerous cells have been extracted, facilitating the recovery of the patient”, he explains. Jose Luis Lopez Estebaranz president of the 23rd CILAD 2022 Congress.
“Mohs surgery is an outpatient intervention with local anesthesia, simple but very precise, which consists of progressively extracting and analyzing the layers of skin”.
In addition, the program includes keynote speeches with international specialists on different types of melanoma, in which the keys to its diagnosis and treatment will be exposed. “It’s about a aggressive tumor that it is necessary to continue monitoring even after it has been removed due to the risk of distant metastases”, warns Dr. López Estebaranz.
Considered the largest event within the specialty and biennial in nature, the 23rd Congress CILAD 2022 will take place in the Palace of Congresses of Madrid from July 1 to 3, with a previous day made up of different workshops and eminently practical, on June 30, which will be held at the Hotel NH Collection Eurobuilding Madrid. They will participate more than 5,000 dermatologists from more than 20 countries in Latin America, as well as from Spain and Portugal.
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