507. Hospital Valongo performs oral cancer screenings in social housing

A team from the Hospital Valongo started Wednesday an oral cancer screening as part of an initiative that will cover all social housing in the county and extending until the end of 2011, advances the agency Lusa.
Renato Matos, member Executive Board of that hospital, Lusa said that the aim is to raise awareness and publicize the main causes of this disease, the number of cases has increased in Portugal.

Its appearance is very associated with smoking and alcohol (about 75% of cases), as well as consumption of drugs. That is, the overwhelming majority of cases depends on risky habits, sustained Renato Matos.
The administrator of the hospital Valongo explained that pursuing a policy of closeness to the population, the health unit is intended to alert the population to this disease.

Awareness initiatives are crucial - having proper information, people may experience noticeable symptoms, recovery time, so awareness initiatives like this are crucial, he said. According to the doctor, all situations are suspect will undergo biopsy and patients receive appropriate treatment at the Hospital for Valongo.

Clinicians participating in the surveys are service dentistry and dental hospital and Cooperative Higher Polytechnic and University (CESPU).
The first screening takes place Wednesday and Thursday in the Social Enterprise Outrela in the city of Valongo.

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Knowing that the number of boarding schools in stomatology in Portugal this year is zero and someone tries to strangle his career these professionals, it was good they were to land and take account of the blunders that practice as senior executives of public administration.

Well, there are still doctors who flock against dentists who never accountable for their decisions, thanks to friends and vested interests in senior policy-making in the country. It would be great that these leaders would never be allowed to have access to medical oncology in the future.