Oncology Director: 332 new breast cancer cases have been recorded in women this year

332 new breast cancer cases have been recorded in the first nine months of 2023, as this number may increase by the end of this year. So said the director of this clinic, Ilir Kurtishi.

The number of cases discussed by the Oncology Clinic exceeds 500. Kurtishi has said that in the last three years, there is an increase in new cases of 10 percent in each year compared with the previous years.

Although the cases listed in Kosovo are less than the countries of the region, Kurtishi sees danger that these countries can be offered.

<x0rate this year, we have identified and recorded in our clinic about 332 female cases and four males with breast cancers of different stages, while compared to last year is close to 10 percent more than the first nine months of last year, and by the end of the year that number could exceed 420 and is the number of women in Northern Macedonia, Albania and Montenegro. They have almost twice as much as we do, but with the use of methods or early identification and the fact that we are the new population, all of these affect us to have fewer malignant diseases than the countries of the region, but the trend of disease is on the rise and very soon we will reach the number of women with breast cancer that will be offered to other countries”, Kurti said, as she also shows the age of women affected by malaria.

The new <x0-seconds rise year-on-year, and in the last three years, we have a 10 percent increase, in each year compared to the early years, except when we have a decline in these cases and these data in the clinic cancerist, we've processed this data and we're in the filtration phase and we have precise data on which age is the most affected. This turns out that more women affected between the ages of 55 and 59 are dominated by the Pristina Community, and so on”, Kurtish said.

He also spoke of the number of patients attending the clinic. Currently, the Oncology Clinic treats up to 500 people, crossing the Emergency Clinic at QKUUK.

“Brenda a typical working day in the chemotherapy service offers services for over 250 to 300 patients - in various forms of treatment - is strictly an ambulator treatment with chemotherapy and various forms of drug - giving. At the same time in the radio therapy service, we have reached maximum numbers of about 160 patients in two devices, and at the same time, the Brachirapy service. So clinics in 24 hours can treat between 450 and 500 people who would like to be the most frequent clinic and the largest of all clinics in KKUK. So he does more checks and treatments than the Emergency Clinic does at QKUK”, he said.

Although not large, Oncology has also been affected by staff migration. Kurtishi has said that seeing the growth trend in cases, this clinic will need even more middle staff.

“With staff of doctors are relatively well-covered, we have four specialists, and with nursing staff these two, we've got the last three months, we've got the extra ones that meet in a shape even though with this mountain disease trend, the years ahead we're going to need even middle staff, since there's a small number but there's also movement of the middle staff that lets Kosovo. Very few of us have been affected, two or three nurses, but she still has an impact on our daily work”, Kurtishi said. / EO