Honduran Authorities
Warn on Cancer
Health authorities said
poor education and lack
of knowledge favor the
incidence of several
types of cancer among
Hondurans.
Education is the
fundamental pillar to
eliminate suffering and
death caused by cancer,
according to the
director of the Emma
Romero Cancer Center,
Flora Duarte.
She said the Center
treats an average of 963
cases of neoplasia in
children and adults, and
provides 14,000
outpatient consultations
every year.
All patients admitted in
the Center are in a
critical state of
health, because our
people are not educated
for self-examinations,
Duarte said.
For her part, Dr. Blanca
Padilla, also from the
Center, said the most
common types of tumors
among women are cervix
(uterus) and breast
cancer, while men suffer
from prostate, stomach,
lung and penis cancer.
Leukemia equally affects
men and women, and
children, said Padilla,
adding that the
incidence of breast
cancer has increased as
a result of women's
refusal to take a
mammogram and to examine
themselves once a month.
Other risk factors are
genetic predisposition,
excessive consumption of
junk food and smoking,
which speeds up the
development of lung,
throat, tongue and
esophagus cancer, she
concluded. |
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