The digestive tract cancers should increase over the next 10/15 years in Portugal. At issue are especially three: pancreatic cancer, liver and bile lashes.
The director of the National Program for Viral Hepatitis (PNHV) warns that in the next 10/15 years Portugal has to be prepared to increase the digestive tract cancers.
“There are three digestive device cancers that happen what happens will increase and the population and politicians have to be prepared for it. We are specialists of the digestive and liver, we have national and international predictions, they will increase regardless of what we can do,” he said Rui Tato Marinho.
Speaking to Lusa, on the sidelines of the presentation session of the National Program for Viral Hepatitis (PNHV) 2025 that takes place this Wednesday in the Prison of Porto, and that highlighting that “Portugal is very well in many aspects of this area”, Rui Tato Marinho has asked for more tests and more tracers, valuing the role of primary health care and the community organizations.
Concerned are the pancreatic cancerthe liver and that of bile roads.
“It is thought that [o cancro do pâncreas] It’s the deadliest And it will overtake the breast cancer, ”described the expert.
“In the liver, and we are talking about what is born in the organ and not metastases, although the virus is eliminated, the risk continues to exist in those who have cirrhosis,” he added.
Finally ”,“ the cancer of bile channels is little knownbut has been increase 5% every year“He ended.
Already about hepatitis, stressing that “they are silent diseases, diseases that people do not know they have and can have for 20/30 years,” Rui Tato Marinho appealed to people to test.
“Hepatitis B and C test needs to be taken at least once in a lifetime. Try to identify people who walk with hepatitis B or C and do not know they have it. Medicine today has fantastic answers, ”he said.
