Disease killed 17,000 men in Brazil in 2023; SBU campaigns for Blue November, awareness month about the disease
The (Brazilian Society of Urology) issues a warning in November regarding the risks of growth in the number of cases of in 2024. Data from the Ministry of Health indicate that the disease killed 17,000 men in Brazil in 2023, an average of 47 per day.
With the aim of raising awareness among men about taking care of their own health, the Blue November movement was created in Australia in 2003. It is a month dedicated to awareness campaigns in several countries, including Brazil.
Early diagnosis
The SBU states that late diagnosis is a factor that reduces the chances of a cure and increases the lethality of the disease. To prevent the disease and detect it at an early stage, it is important to carry out periodic tests and consult a specialist.
“In Brazil, women live on average 7 years longer than men. This happens because the girl ends up [as consultas] see the pediatrician and go to the gynecologist. The boy ends up with the pediatrician and doesn’t go anywhere”, says the president of the SBU, Luiz Otávio Torres.
The SBU says it believes it is important that teenagers and young adults always have annual health checks.
“Not just talking about urology, men’s general health, diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, are factors that are linked to tumors such as prostate cancer. The importance of men taking exams and taking care of their health is to diagnose diseases at an early stage and be able to treat them, increasing the man’s survival rate.”says Torres.
One of the SBU’s proposals, in the Blue November 2024 campaign, is to draw attention to the fact that prostate cancer presents few symptoms in its initial phase and that, if a man waits for these symptoms, he may discover a disease at an early stage. advanced and possibly metastasizing (when cancer cells spread to other organs).
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