Mexico Registers 150K New Cancer Cases a Year Prensa Latina
go to original September 27, 2014

The headquarters of the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (Incan)

In Mexico, 150 thousand new cases of cancer are registered annually and this figure is expected to double by 2030, it was reported this week.

The general director of the National Cancer Institute, Abelardo Meneses, said in a press conference that if preventive measures are not taken to reduce risk factors such as obesity and smoking, cancer will continue to progress in the country.

He considered a major problem that in Mexico patients arrive at hospitals in very advanced stages.

Cancer is the third leading cause of death in the country; however, not all states have oncological institutions.

He said that by 2020 the expenditure to cope with the disease will be of 50 thousand 500 million pesos (about four billion dollars) so there is an urgent need to prevent and early detect the disease.

He added tha national planning and exchange of best practices are required, since there is an insufficient cancer coverage in the country, where 13 percent of the 550 thousand annual deaths are the result of the disease.

He said the modifiable risk factors are smoking and a poor diet, in addition to sexually transmitted infections. He noted that prevention could reduce by 40 percent the number of cases.

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