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Fear of attending hospitals during covid-19 is delaying early diagnosis of cancer

The pandemic of covid-19 has caused many problems in the sanitary systemOne of them is the fear that people have developed and that is why they do not go to hospital units for care.

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This can cause serious health repercussions, especially for those who suffer from any chronic or degenerative disease. For example, cancer, it is important to address the delay of patients to undergo early diagnostic tests due to the fear of attending a hospital during the pandemic.

This phenomenon will have an impact in 2021 with an estimated increase in the projection of oncological cases and a greater number of cases in an advanced stage due to lack of detection or treatment in time, a press release from the Hospital Paitilla.

In Panama the statistics mainly include breast, prostate, lung, rectal and skin cancer. It is estimated that around 60% of tumors require radical or postoperative radiotherapy treatment, without forgetting those palliative cases such as bone pain or metastatic brain metastases.

This hospital is aware of the importance of oncology patients continue with your treatments, detect it s time and avoid delayed diagnoses despite the pandemic.

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They have reinforced and applied specific security protocols to maintain all the activity that required the reviews, sessions of treatment and surgical interventions.

Dr. Rafael Araúz, medical coordinator of Paitilla Oncology Center, founded 20 years ago, explained that linear accelerator chemotherapy and external radiation therapy in children and adults are the treatments offered by the center.

In addition, several specialties converge in the group of treating doctors, medical oncology, pediatric oncology, radiation oncologist, oncology nursing, medical physicist, and radiotherapy and imaging technologist.

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According to American Society of Clinical Oncology recent data have shown that people with active or progressing cancer may be at higher risk than people with cancer in remission.

People with Cancer they must follow the same rules against covid-19 as people who do not have cancer.

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