“The average investment in our screenings is € 50 million, per year,” said Ana People at the beginning of her intervention.
The Secretary of State for Health has admitted the availability of governments in available “to increase this value”, adding that “The 2026 budget will have, for the first time, its own heading”since it will have “A programmatic budget for health promotion and prevention, with all the gains it implies”.
In this sense, Ana Povo said – firsthand – that will have “Two lung cancer screening pilots.”
The expert admits that it is necessary to perceive, through these pilot screenings, “the global gain of the population’s health, then see if it will be poured as a standard for general and family medicine doctors, or whether we will really widen the national scope, as is the screen of breast cancer.”
On this topic concludes, saying that the guardianship is working to make everything materialize, although it can not yet advance when it is going to start, “but the two pilots are already chosen and we are daily working on it,” he says.
The Portuguese reality
In just 24 hours die – on average – 11 people due to lung cancer in Portugal. These are numbers of the Portuguese Association to fight lung cancer (pulmonale) that account for more than 4,000 deaths in a year due to this disease.
Both in the country and in the world, this is the deadliest cancer and one of those who record the highest number of annual cases: more than 2 million, throughout the globe.
Portugal has no tracking for this evil neoplasia, but it is expected that soon – according to what was stated today – may have. Despite the improvement form of prevention is not smoking, for certain cancers, the screening is a powerful weapon of diagnosis. Lung cancer does not escape this evidence and studies to determine the efficacy of screening show that mortality associated with this neoplasia is reduced by at least 20%.
Lung cancer goes beyond the breast as the main cause of cancer death among women in Spain
This week, the Spanish newspaper El País published new alarming data on lung cancer: in 2024, more women with lung cancer died in Spain than with breast cancer, reveal provisional data from the National Statistics Institute (INE). This is the first time, according to the Spanish group of lung cancer (GECP), which classifies the phenomenon as an “alarming inflection point”.
Of the 23,000 and 239 lung cancer deaths recorded in 2024 – an increase of 1.9% compared to 2023 – 6679 were women, translating a 7% increase in female mortality by this disease in one year. GECP relates these numbers to increased tobacco consumption among women in recent decades and advocates urgent prevention and smoking cessation measures.
“For the first time in history, lung cancer surpassed the breast as the main cause of cancer death among women. In Spain,” said GECP epidemiologist Alberto Ruano. Already the president of the group, Mariano Provêncio, stressed the need for a coordinated response and further research on the impact of this disease on females.
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