The Customs building will receive tomorrow, Thursday, the first free oral cancer screening led to the population of Porto. A pioneering initiative, promoted by the Group CESPU - Cooperative Higher Polytechnic and University, which could serve as a model for future public actions in the fight against oral cancer. The screening, which takes place between 10.00 and 17.00, consists of a detailed clinical examination completely painless, and will count on the presence of one of the greatest international experts in this area, also a director of the World Health Organization (WHO).
In Europe, Portugal and Spain are at the forefront of the incidence of oral cancer. According to the latest figures available, in 2008, estimated to have occurred in 1025 new cases of oral cavity cancer in our country. These numbers make us fret and stimulate, to perform and promote initiatives aimed at the population in order to reverse these results, defends Luís Monteiro, dentist New Health Network and Professor of Oral Pathology Group CESPU. The more so, he adds, that much is detected late and more than half die of oral cancer after five years.
With prevention as a priority area to intervene, the Group CESPU through the New Health Network, will promote this Thursday, March 31, at the Customs building, the first free screening led to the population of Porto. The CESPU pioneered in providing these screenings to the public. In 2010, we started making oral cancer screenings, along with the Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição and Municipality of Maia, the population of Valongo. In 2011, let's keep this type of initiative, now promoting a mega-screening in the city center of Porto, explains Luis Monteiro.
In a survey conducted between February and March this year to 501 clients attending outpatient Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceição de Valongo, concluded that 98.5 percent of respondents never made any oral cancer screening. This is a scenario that ought to be changed. Education campaigns should be established to allow information about oral cancer and motivate people to protect themselves against this disease, warns Luis Monteiro. Because, according to this study, knowledge of oral cancer in the population surveyed revealed to be poor, with most respondents admit to never having heard of oral cancer. Interestingly, this was the type of cancer that less and less known that pancreatic cancer, with an incidence much lower than oral cancer.
Tracing the Customs Port will take place between 10.00 and 17.00 and will consist of a detailed clinical examination completely painless and a teaching session and guidance on oral cancer, involving teachers and students of Dental Medicine CESPU, coordinated by British Saman Warnakulasuryia, the specialist who has performed more screening of oral cancer in the world, and even the WHO advisor in this area.
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