Santa Clara.— A modern technology for the detection of different types of cancer and its characteristics is about to start operating at the Arnaldo Milián Castro Hospital, in Santa Clara, to benefit patients from the central provinces of the country.
According to Dr. Daniel Artiles Martínez, a first-degree specialist in Pathological Anatomy at the prestigious institution, it is an immunohistochemistry (IHQ) laboratory, which will enable much more accurate and precise diagnoses to be made.
Breast cancer, lymphomas, lung tumors and other locations such as brain, stomach and melanomas, among other pathologies associated with this disease, can be diagnosed by means of the installed technology, allowing a more personalized treatment for the patient, based on the specification of the type of cancer detected.
Another of the advantages provided by the new equipment is the possibility of performing different types of studies that can be referential, confirmatory or to make markers that will later have an impact on the treatment, the physician pointed out.
"The main objective is to make increasingly complete confirmatory diagnoses, in order to apply specific therapies, because not all cancers have the same structural conformation in their genetic order, their immunohistochemical characteristics and their molecular biochemistry," Dr. Artiles explained.
When the modern technology is implemented, the biopsies of patients from the central region will no longer have to be sent to Havana, the only territory that currently has equipment of this category, which will mean saving time in favor of life, considering that this process used to take a month or more, and now it will be almost in real time.
