The woman who won the battle with cancer (Video)

Fatmire Ismaili, from Pristina, believed and managed to win the battle with breast cancer. It calls on all women who may be affected to believe in healing and not neglect it in any form but to treat the disease according to the doctor's advice.

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2013. Then I was 42 years old. In Kosovo, I have performed surgery, chemotherapy and the whole treatment. I think all Kosovo women do not need to go abroad for treatment, as at the Oncology Institute it is an extremely good staff”.

I'd ask all women not to give up, as this disease will and will heal. I compare cancer to flu virus. Cancer heals”, Ismaili says.

Treatment of cancer - in addition to moral and professional support - is extremely costly in a material way. Mrs. Ishmael says that there have been many challenges, since drugs have been very expensive.

There wasn't any drugs in 2013. I spent 20 thousand euros on surgery and drugs in three months. This disease is expensive. But everyone has helped me, both morally and financially. Every disease to overcome is a challenge, but it is willingly passed and healed. I was in the second stage of the disease when I was diagnosed”, she relates.

Currently, at the Oncology Clinic at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo, in the ninth quarter of 2017, there have been 1,128 cases handled by cancer.

While only breast cancer during this ninth month, 450 new cases have been recorded.
The director of the Oncology Institute at the University Clinical Centre in Kosovo, Ekrem Hyseni, said the number of cancer victims increases almost every year. But it explains this phenomenon by increasing the number of people who discover the disease earlier.

This trend of increased cancer rates has been predicted, as the number that was earlier has shown the smallest number in Europe and we cannot be different from other people in the world. But, anyway, I think that number has increased even thanks to what people are already showing up to the doctor once they notice something suspicious about themselves”, Hyseni says.

According to him, throughout 2017, supplies of medicines for public health institutions have been presented as a challenge to many diseases in Kosovo, including those of cancer.
Health professionals say that breast cancer leads as a disease among women.

As a result, in Kosovo in 2015, mobile mammography is being put into service by women through whom women can do free breast control.

It has been the group of women MPs that have initiated buying mobile mammography in order to have access to all women across Kosovo's territory.

Health officials have claimed that during 2016 alone, across Kosovo, some 50 cases of breast cancer have been discovered through this mammography.

Ardian Bicak, co-ordinator for mobile mammography, said that already many services for diagnosing breast cancer are performed within public health institutions.
The mammography service is organized through mobile mammography and works for three years. Also, through the referenced centre that has been implemented within the University Clinical Centre, where the breast ultrasound services, digital mammmography and magnetic resonance, which is the first time offered in public institutions”.

The “has become a movement along with civil society that is active in this direction with the delivery of the Oncology Clinic service and that mobile mammography has managed to cover many areas in Kosovo”, he explains.

Unlike the global research and data presented by the National Cancer Board in Kosovo, it is said that there are 14 million in the world. new cases a year of cancer until it is projected to increase that number to 21.7 million by 2030.

Meanwhile, as far as cancer deaths in the world are concerned, there are currently 8.2 million cases per year, until 2030, there are reportedly up to 13 million cancer deaths.