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Revista Colombiana de Cirugía
Print version ISSN 2011-7582On-line version ISSN 2619-6107
Abstract
DIAZ, Sandra et al. Education for the early detection of breast cancer in Colombia. rev. colomb. cir. [online]. 2019, vol.34, n.4, pp.329-337. ISSN 2011-7582. https://doi.org/10.30944/20117582.512.
Introduction:
Breast cancer represents an increasing public health issue in Colombia. Most undergraduate medical students and health professionals do not receive training in early detection of breast cancer.
Material and methods:
This article describes the process and achievements developed by the National Cancer Institute of Colombia (NCIC) to train health professionals (general practitioners [GP], gynecologists, family doctors and chief nurses) in early detection of breast cancer through two modalities courses: physical presence and virtual.
Results:
With these two course modalities 1,875 health professionals have been trained, most of them were certified through the virtual course (n=1.294; 73,.0 %). Most of the trained health professionals were GP (n=919; 49,0 %). Both modalities had a high level of satisfaction of the participants, a certification rate of 100 % in the face-to-face modality and 73.0 % in the virtual one.
Conclusions:
It is difficult to measure the impact of professional training in the clinical staging of breast cancer mainly because most regions in Colombia do not have cancer records. We should have a longer follow-up time to be able to measure the real impact in achieving lower clinical staging and, therefore, to reduce mortality due to the disease.
Keywords : breast neoplasms; early detection of cancer; public policy; health human resource training; incidence; mortality.