2023-10-23 16:00:00
Rania Amer wrote Monday, October 23, 2023 07:00 PM
People suffer for years from complications of infection withLiver diseases Such as cirrhosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer, as a result of people being infected with the C virus epidemic and previously with schistosomiasis. Egypt has been able to eliminate these epidemics, and the continuation of medical awareness campaigns has helped in this.
Dr. Ahmed Awad Nassar, Assistant Professor of Interventional Radiology at Zagazig University, and Oncology Consultant at Health Insurance Hospital, said in a special statement to “Youm7” that it is known that liver cancer is the most severe type of cancer that kills a person’s life, as Egypt was one of the countries in which it is most common. In which cases of this cancer were recorded, he pointed out that the groups most vulnerable to this infection are those infected with Hepatitis C, and when the Egyptian state was able to eliminate this virus, this led to overcoming liver cancer.
The process of eliminating liver cancer includes three axes:
The first axis
It is to prevent infection with the disease in the first place by preventing the causes of infection with Hepatitis C, through early detection of the disease, or Hepatitis B, which is one of the causes of liver cancer, through vaccination, which has become mandatory.
And the second axis
Early detection of patients who have developed liver cirrhosis.
The third axis
Treatment of liver cancer includes several methods, including interventional radiation, which is the most important type of modern treatment in treating liver cancer. He pointed out that approximately 90% of people with liver cancer can be treated without surgery by interventional radiation, which includes cauterization, thermal frequency, or arterial injection. The chemist.
The oncology consultant also confirmed that health experts in Egypt have performed many operations on cases to treat liver cancer, which were cured as a result of interventional radiation treatment.
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