Doctor Dzodic claims: Cancer risk can be reduced by 30 percent, and here's how

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Simple and cheap measures can reduce the number of cancer patients by 30 percent, which is the elimination of smoking, alcoholism, reduction in obesity, walking, no exposure to sun and solarium, prof. Radan Dzodic said, director of the Institute of Oncology of Serbia.

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Dzodic said that besides primary prevention - introducing the healthy lifestyle, the secondary prevention is necessary, and those are various screening programs, like mammography, examing for colon cancer, the cervix.

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- A lot has been done in the last four years in the infrastructure regarding Oncology. The oncology is no longer an orphan of Serbian medicine. A subject was introduced for the students of the sixth year of the Medical Faculty, Clinical Oncology. Radiotherapy was significantly fixed - Dzodic said for RTS.

He was asked how many patients are currently waiting at the Institute of Oncology, he said that 607 patients are waiting for surgery, but those with malignant tumors are on the special priority list, 300 patients are waiting for radiotherapy, and 130 patients for systemic treatment.

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Dzodic added that three more radiotherapy machines should arrive at the Institute and that there won't be a waiting list, and the institute won't have to treat patients in three shifts.

He added that a national cancer-fighting plan was made, which is done according to the French model, which is the best in Europe, and which implies that everyone - from the president of the state to every citizen - should take care of chronic non-communicable diseases because everyone can change the infamous statistics.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Tanjug)