The Ministry of Health reaffirmed this Saturday its commitment to approach children’s cancer to serve 1,049.5 cases for children under 15 scheduled in Spain this year. According to the Spanish Registry of Children’s Tumors (RETI), another 573 cases correspond to adolescents (15-19 years), which would exceed 1,600 diagnoses.
These are the forecasts that Healing this February 15, World Childhood Cancer Daya health problem whose approach is “Priority” for the Executive “Because of its impact on an especially vulnerable collective such as pediatric patients and their families.”
For the Ministry, the incidence of oncohematological pathologies diagnosed in childhood and adolescence is increasing, but the mortality associated with the disease continues to descend “thanks to the advances that the treatment of cancer has experienced in recent decades.” “With this increase in survival, the risks of suffering medical or psychological sequelae have also increasedwhich can impact the global quality of life of the patient and its closest environment, “he added.
In this context, Health recalled that the National Health System (SNS) has a Consensual Cancer Strategy With the autonomous communities, updated in 2021, which incorporates a specific strategic line to improve the approach to childhood cancer.
He also stressed that the agreement for the childhood organization of childhood and adolescence approved in 2018, which is included in the 2021 strategy update, “It constitutes a determining element For the improvement of patient care, through measures such as the centralization of care in experience, through multidisciplinary teams, health network work with other centers or units involved in the care of children and adolescents with cancer and the creation of Autonomous Committees of Assistance Coordination. “
In this sense, cancer strategy is developing jobs to improve the implementation of this agreementanalyze how the surgical treatment of central nervous system tumors is organized today and improve the diagnosis of child cancer through training activities aimed at primary care professionals.
The agreement signed between the Ministry of Health and the University of Valencia is currently in force to promote the development and maintenance of the Spanish children’s registration (RETI). According to the department headed by Mónica García, “the data provided by the reti allow to analyze survival, its evolution and differences with other European countries, thus evaluating care improvements in Spainand contributing to the greater knowledge of these tumors in our country. “
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