Early information and detection to minimize male diseases

The opinion of Malaga organized last Tuesday, November 16 at the headquarters of our newspaper an encounter between medical specialists from various health centers in Malaga and Province, where the great evils that affect man, the prevention of them, the latter the lasttreatments and awareness by the male patient when going to the doctor more regularly and thus avoid medical problems of the future.

Dr. Emilio Julve, Urologist at Vithas Xanit International Hospital;Dr. Paula Sedano Ferreras, Specialist in Radiation Oncology at HC Marbella;Dr. Jose María del Rosal Samaniego, responsible for Urology in the Angel;Dr. Álvaro Flores, Radiation Oncologist at Genesiscare and Dr. Antonio González Sánchez, surgeon at Santa Elena Hospital.

Early detection and treatment

Construles analyzed, among other issues, the strategies to be taken into account to promote doctors' visits by the male population;early detection and awareness of the male collective when facing and treating exclusively his diseases;the medical-patient relationship;Symptoms, tests, treatments and side effects in diseases such as prostate cancer, very frequent from 60 years, and testicle, recurring among men from 15 to 40 years, and the measures to be taken so that new generations do notThey commit the same bad habits as their parents and grandparents in terms of male health.

The group of experts agreed to point out the turn that has caused a considerable increase in the number of male patients who come to a specialist to evaluate possible health problems, breaking schemes and taboos of the past.This is a work "result of campaigns such as Movember and the work of medical associations that has been collected by the media effectively and efficiently to promote the early detection of diseases such as prostate and testicle cancer," said EmilioJulve, by Vithas Xanit International.

"Primary prevention with recommendations for healthy habits, possible symptoms and alarm signs to consult the specialist is a very important task to detect the cancers of testicle and prostate early," said Paula Sedano, HC radiotherapestic oncologist Marbella, who said thatThe man must assume, as the woman does with her gynecological reviews, this aspect in her day to day.

Clearly the cancers of testicle, prostate and erectile dysfunctions associated with both are the two "great exclusive enemies" of the male collective, although there are other non -exclusive diseases of the male, such as cardiovascular accidents, other types of cancer such as colorectal orof bladder, or lately the high levels of suicide in young people under 30, who are above at the level of prevalence and incidence in male health.

Fusion biopsy

Early detection and especially self -exploration, in case of the testicular tumor, and PSA tests, magnetic resonance and ultrasound, are the best therapies to detect health problems in those areas.The recommendations of the scientific associations are clear: from the age of 50 you have to pass review regularly and at age 40 if there are a family history of the disease.

Fusion biopsy has meant a great advance in the detection of prostate cancer for approximately a couple of years.«It is a biopsy, let's say that directed, in the samples of the gland thanks to the previous work of a radiologist that maps the organ and indicates the areas in the worst state of the Organ. Es una prueba más específica y con mayor fiabilidad y que nos aporta más información», comentó Jose María del Rosal Samaniego, del Hospital El Ángel.

Speaking of prostate cancer, the possibility of treatments is currently very varied once diagnosed.Surgery, radiotherapy, hormone therapy, chemotherapy and even active surveillance are the most recurring options.Álvaro Flores, Genesiscare radiotherapeutic oncologist believes that today "we put on the patient all the options for their treatment".Among them, an option little known among citizenship such as body stereotactic radiotherapy (SBRT) applied to prostate with rectal spacer, a therapy that does not require surgical intervention, in just 5 days, with high healing rates, very few side effects andwhich is indicated in certain cases."You have to act based on scientific evidence and be very clear about the treatment and explain it to the patient with all their pros and cons," says Antonio González Sánchez, surgeon of the Santa Elena Hospital.

The medical experts gathered by the opinion agreed to point out the "great importance" of allocating, economic resources to design with them a transverse health policy by the different administrations, with other disciplines, such as education, to establish lines that propose «Changes in traditional patterns that translate into better habits and that result in the healthy health conditions ».