The health sector in Guaimaro, Camagüey materializes actions aimed at informing the population about cancer, risk factors and the importance of prevention with self-care.
During the current February several debates have been related to the measures to be taken into account when recreating and exercising to avoid sunstroke, as well as the high consumption of alcohol or ultraprocessed and very sugary foods.
Dr. Yelennis Sánchez Smith, specialist in Comprehensive General Medicine and advisor to the Cancer program of the Municipal Sector of Public Health, in Guaimaro, values educational talks and conversations in schools, waiting rooms of the polyclinic 'Victoria de Girón very effective ', the hospital' Armando Enrique Cardoso 'and in family doctor's offices.
Sánchez Smith also emphasizes that in Cuba lung cancer is the first cause of death in both men and women, which demonstrates the need to become aware, in the first place, given the increased dependence on smoking, the main factor in risk of that disease.
He also warned that the age of onset in addiction is increasingly early and in recent years the number of women has increased, so it was the responsibility for each subject to establish the priority of the value of their health.
Despite the imperialist blockade imposed by the US administrations for more than half a century on the island, a policy that increases every day, the Cuban Revolution consolidates the introduction of new technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the cost of which is very high and It guarantees all patients completely free of charge.