“Poles' awareness of the cancer process is still too low”

According to the National Cancer Registry, 1 million 170 thousand Poles live with cancer. Nearly 100,000 people die from cancer in Poland every year. people. Cancer is the cause of over 25 percent. deaths in our country.

Professor Wojciech Rogowski, an oncologist from the University of Pomerania, in an interview “You get up and know” with Rafał Wojda on TVN24, said that in his opinion there is still too little public awareness of how the process of suffering from cancer may proceed.

– 80 percent of patients ask me why this happened to him. Only those whose family member had the disease are aware of it. Then the approach to this issue is a little different and they investigate. Some even just to spare, the doctor said.

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– In my opinion, e-cigarettes, especially disposable ones with colorful and flavored liquids, are our greatest failure as a society. The Chinese are laughing because they have huge factories and export them all over the world. They introduced a ban on disposable e-cigarettes two years ago, Rogowski noted.

The oncologist pointed out that, according to estimates, about 40-50 percent of patients smoked disposable e-cigarettes before the age of 15. – I recently talked to a student from one of the best high schools in Warsaw and about 80 percent of people smoke disposables. They may be even more harmful than classic tobacco smoke, he said. – This should be our priority, primary prevention, i.e. avoiding the causes of cancer – he added.

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October is breast cancer awareness month around the world. Over the last century, breast cancer has become one of the greatest threats to premature mortality among women in Poland. The likelihood of developing this cancer increases with age, so regular mammograms are an important aspect of prevention.