A number of specialists working in the Ministry of Health demanded, through a medical workshop, the necessity of establishing a national project under the ministry’s umbrella for early detection of breast cancer among Saudi women in the Kingdom to reduce the increasing numbers of deaths and ease of treatment if the disease is discovered in its early stages, provided that it is the starting point for this project Jeddah city. For her part, Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi, head of the Sheikh Al-Amoudi Chair for Breast Cancer at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, and one of the participants in the workshop that took place in Al-Sharq Palace, explained that the idea of establishing a national project for early examination of breast cancer is similar to the countries that are concerned with early examination to discover it is a wonderful idea as it is considered the right way to raise the rate of cure and reduce The numbers of deaths indicating that more than 70 percent of cases are discovered in their late stages, indicating that the smallest cases in which the disease was discovered was for a child who did not exceed the age of fifteen years, and it is classified from very rare cases.
She said that our early examination mechanism exists, but in a scattered manner between the government and the private sector, and we hope that the examination will be more organized and in the form of an integrated program at the level of the Kingdom that comes with the approval of decision-makers, and for such a project to succeed, it must come within the health programs that the state provides to the citizen, referring to The number of women infected with this disease is most in the eastern region, followed by the central and western order.
On his part, Dr. Abdel Moneim Al Sheikh, Director General of King Fahd Hospital in Jeddah called for the necessity to quickly start the project with the currently available capabilities, specifically from the city of Jeddah, as it is one of the important health projects to start afterwards to all regions of the Kingdom, especially in light of the specialized medical competencies and the existence of cooperation with the centers and then presented to The relevant authorities to circulate, which will help determine the size of the problem and the speed of early detection and treatment, which limits the number of deaths and saves exorbitant sums for treatment.
On the role of disease awareness and the methods used, Dr. Al-Sheikh said that awareness is launched from the global health weeks and through health publications, mobile early detection clinics, giving lectures and visiting schools to educate young women in the secondary and university stages.
Dr. Eman Baroum, the coordinator of the medical workshop, a consultant diagnostic radiologist, the head of the radiology department at King Abdulaziz Hospital and the Oncology Center, and the head of the mammography unit, described the increase in the number of patients with the disease due to a health disaster, the effects of which began to expand dramatically among the ages of women, and the infection index is increasing through the cases that are discovered at a rate. Two cases per week, which prompted us to demand the implementation of this national project under the umbrella of the Ministry of Health and in all regions of the Kingdom, and our goal is for the first stop to be the city of Jeddah.
Dr. Noha Dashash, a consultant family medicine consultant and assistant director of health affairs for primary care and preventive medicine, said that breast cancer is an obsession that haunts Saudi women and the number of consultants and consultants in treating oncology is large.
She added, "My presence in the workshop to promote the role of primary health care for early diagnosis of breast cancer, and we are in the process of developing a plan for Jeddah Governorate. We seek to transform a national plan for the early diagnosis of breast cancer program by identifying two sites to equip them with mammograms that discover tumors in all stages, especially since primary health care is considered a line of defense." The first of an integrated health system that receives citizens.
