· Clinical breast examination and cervical cytology are performed free of charge to patients who lack social security
La Paz, Baja California Sur, January 14, 2022. Screening tests that contribute to the timely detection of breast and cervical cancer are services that are permanently provided to South Californians who lack any security in the health centers that the government of Baja California Sur operates in the five municipalities of the entity.
Women over 25 years of age who do not have coverage from IMSS, ISSSTE or the Armed Forces, have the opportunity to go to these first-level medical units, to undergo clinical breast examination and cervical cytology, which allow irregularities to be identified. that could have a carcinogenic origin, said the head of the branch in the entity, Zazil Flores Aldape.
The importance of detecting any abnormality in time is that with this complementary studies are carried out that help to achieve more reliable diagnoses and with this the possibility of starting earlier treatments that significantly improve the prognosis of patients, he added.
In this sense, he explained that the clinical examination of the breast is an intervention similar to the breast self-examination, but this is carried out by health personnel duly trained to find alterations, while the cervical cytology consists of taking a sample of cells of the cervix, by means of a brush, which must be examined by technicians specialized in cytology.
They are procedures that are carried out free of charge to patients who do not have any social rights and that are carried out in strict accordance with health protocols for the prevention of Covid-19; Hence, the call to the South Californians is emphasized so that at the beginning of the year they go to the medical check-up and with this they can reinforce their well-being conditions, he pointed out.
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