Since January, 250 new breast cancer cases

In the first eight months of this year in Kosovo, 250 new breast cancer cases have been presented. Compared to last year, for the same time period, there is an increase in the cases of this disease.

Thus has announced the task of Oncology Clinic Director Arben Bislim, who said that over a thousand new cases of mountain disease have been recorded this year.

For the January-August period of this year, according to the evidence we have in our clinic, there are 250 cases approximately, only breast cancer, and in total, over a thousand and something total with malaria. This number from last year is probably like a rough statistics, but we're also assuming that by the end of the year this number of patients in general, but in particular those with breast cancer are perhaps 10, 15 or up to 20% growing. This conveys the global trend of increasing the incisibility of the appearance of mountain diseases, so we like Kosovo cannot avoid”, Bislimi said.

As a challenge to treatment of breast cancer patients but also generally of those who suffer from malignant diseases, Bislim has calculated the lack of physical care.

“To us as Kosovo is lacking without the physical care that is a whole other service than what we try to offer... It's a specialty in itself, an area in which we don't offer our citizens yet because we don't. Those wireless patients we try to provide services to the clinic, but other clinics are scattered throughout regional clinics and spirals and primary services... I think there's a lot of importance here to develop a capacity starting with those human and infrastructure resources that can be offered in the visual service because these patients, somewhere 20 to 30% of them, we have them in our clinic, and they reflect it in our daily work because we have to deal with them, if it had been a paliliative center it would have been meritive for those patients with that” service, he said.

Regarding the intelligence of drugs from the essential list for breast cancer patients, Bislim said the supply from this list has been satisfactory.

We're always called on the essential list that we have of drugs in our clinic, and the coverage of this list was approximately 70-75%. As for the cytostatic breast cancer, with chemistry therapy that they apply, I can say it has been satisfactory by including those protocols that we follow, even with therapy plates for those who need to get tranfumabi, herceptics that are most known among the people, and with that we haven't been bad, supplies have been confronomous planning. We've had a void these days especially this month because of some circumstances, but I'm thinking that as far as breast cancer management is concerned, we haven't been wrong, given all the circumstances that accompany us as a country... Those protocols that are standard we use most often after, those hormonal pills that patients use if they have indicators for them mostly we've been behind, we've only been in lack of herceptics in this short period that left us”, Bislim stressed.

Dr. Bislimi expressed the lack of nursing staff as a concern. According to him, it often happens that a nurse will take care of 40-50 patients who are receiving chemotherapy.

And we don't have a very vulnerable thing in our clinic, we've had the medical staff move, a colleague of ours from the radio therapy service has made a probably temporary move abroad, maybe and remains, but this as a trend is continuing, should be seen in this direction by stopping this ongoing negative trend and should take measures... We're missing nurses if we look at the numbers, it doesn't turn out that way I see who's giving services. And there's a shortage of nurses because specifically, it often happens that nurses in the chemotherapy room offer services to 40-50 patients. But even in the radio therapy department we don't stand better there's a lack of radio therapy techniques that's something more specific, and this as a problem mostly lack of nurses to say is not only in our clinic, but it's also in other service”, he stressed.

October is the month of awareness of the early discovery of breast cancer.