- The group's professionals are involved in information and prevention initiatives such as patient advice, workshops, information tables and information days, and dye hospitals pink to commemorate Breast Cancer Day
- Almost 90 super-specialists from five of Ribera's health centers work in its Breast Area, one of the largest interhospital networks that offer comprehensive care to patients with breast cancer
Breast cancer is already the most diagnosed tumor in the world, surpassing lung cancer for the first time, according to data published in 2021 by the Center for Cancer Research (IARC, for its acronym in English). Thats why he Ribera healthcare group has organized more than a dozen awareness actions in all its hospitals, in the context of the commemoration of Breast Cancer Day.
Patient advice, workshops, information tables, informative conferences and even an artistic contest for their own professionals aim to influence the importance of prevention, going to periodic check-ups with a specialist, and also to value their Breast Area, one of the largest interhospital networks made up of nearly 90 super-specialists in breast pathologies from five of the Ribera hospitals. In this network, led by Dr. Julia Camps, radiologists, oncoplastic surgeons, gynecologists, pathologists, oncologists and psychologists work, among others, all subspecialized in the breast, specifically in breast cancer.
Since Monday the 17th, professionals and hospitals from the Ribera group have participated in initiatives to raise awareness about breast cancer, which culminate today, World Day Against Breast Cancer, the date on which the hospitals and work centers of the group have been dyed pink, thanks to the collaboration of professionals and patients. Also today, the Denia Hospital organizes an information table on breast cancer prevention; and Natalia Espejo, psychologist at the Department of Health of Vinalopo, gives a lecture on the emotional impact of this disease, in collaboration with MACMA, at 20:XNUMX p.m. at the Wagner Theater in Aspe.
In addition, Dr. Lorenzo Rabadán, surgical coordinator of the Breast Area, participated on Monday in an informative conference on breast cancer, organized by the newspaper La Razón in Madrid; and yesterday the corporate head of the Breast Area, Julia Camps, did the same at the Patient Council of the Ribera Povisa hospital (Vigo), which revolved around breast cancer, in collaboration with ADICAM (Association of people affected by breast cancer and xynecological). In this same hospital, a mindfulness workshop for patients with breast cancer will be organized tomorrow, while on Saturday the collaboration of Vinalopó professionals is scheduled in the information bus that the Crevillente (Alicante) City Council will install in the municipality, to organize workshops Breast self-examination practices. Already at the end of November, this same Vinalopó hospital will collaborate with the XVIII Race against breast cancer organized by the association AMACMEC.
Artistic creations of breast cancer professionals
Yesterday a unique event took place at the Ribera hospitals: the awards ceremony for the I Internal Artistic Contest on breast cancer. The group's professionals have been summoned this year to participate in a very special and well-received artistic exhibition dedicated to breast cancer, to which they could present any original creation. The winning works have received recognition from the group and will be exhibited in the Breast Area clinics and in artistic shows in which the group participates periodically with patient associations.
In Spain, each year more than 34.000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer, although as the coordinators of the Breast Area of the Ribera health group say, "no two diseases are the same, because no two women are the same". For this reason, they add, precision medicine is so important, that is, the personalization of treatments and the assessment of each case as unique. In the Breast Area of the Ribera group, the tumor committee assesses and analyzes the case of each patient. In this way, some of the best specialists in Spain are responsible for analyzing the cases of these patients, regardless of their referral hospital. Currently, there are five Ribera hospitals integrated into the Breast Area: the Vinalopó university hospitals (Elche) and Torrejon, the Denia hospital and the Ribera Povisa (Vigo) and Ribera Polusa (Lugo). The latter recently launched the Breast Unit and has a new digital mammograph with tomosynthesis, unique in the province of Lugo.
