2023-10-21 19:03:08
Established since 1985, with more than 7,200 interventions per year, the Thiérache polyclinic has decided for several years to focus on screening and raising awareness among the population.
“We must take patients by the hand and offer them a full range of services and professionals capable of responding to a structured care pathway” tells us Régis Poison, president.
“We are far from systematic mastectomies”
When Pink October is mentioned each year, obviously the first thought is in favor of women and the significant risk of breast cancer.
Hence the need to increase all events and structures in favor of screening.
For this, the clinic has high-performance radiological screening equipment, including a digital breast stereotaxy device which allows a biopsy to be carried out on a small area of calcification for precise diagnosis and localization.
Screening techniques have also evolved significantly with mammography devices becoming much less painful.
All stages from screening to surgery, including chemotherapy and immunotherapy, have undergone very significant improvements.
“We are far from systematic mastectomies. Each treatment is adapted to each case” tells us Jean-François Debray, visceral surgeon and president of the establishment medical commission.
This day also made it possible to raise patients’ awareness of initial self-care through self-palpation.
“A severe lack of treating doctors”
The development of medical deserts does not help the statistics on the number of screening requests. “
Every year we welcome around fifty patients who have had late screening for whom mastectomy is essential. It’s way too much !” explains Doctor Debray who, for this day, was dressed in a pink operating room tunic and pants.
Remember that men are not left out of also carrying out screening. The positivity of the latter, despite its rarity, necessarily generates a search for familial genetic risks. This disease is often underdiagnosed due to its low occurrence (0.5% of male cancers).
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