{"id":32430,"date":"2026-02-11T17:39:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/agostinho-neto-university-hospital-launches-cancer-clinic"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:46:24","slug":"agostinho-neto-university-hospital-launches-cancer-clinic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/cape-verde\/all-news\/agostinho-neto-university-hospital-launches-cancer-clinic","title":{"rendered":"Agostinho Neto University Hospital Launches Cancer Clinic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Cape verde. <\/strong><\/span>The Clinical Director of the Agostinho University Hospital (HUAN), Hirondina Borges, assured today that the hospital intends to begin, this month, consultations for the identification of hereditary cancer, as is done in several countries.<\/p>\n<p>Hirondina Borges provided this information to Inforpress, on the sidelines of a training session with the hospital&#8217;s health professionals on hereditary cancer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the same source, the intention of the clinic is to more closely monitor families related to breast, ovarian, prostate, and colorectal cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Hirondina Borges assured that the objective will be to identify these families, perform screening tests, and provide prophylactic treatments to prevent cancer in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis month we will implement a hereditary cancer consultation with the objective of monitoring the families we have already identified,\u201d according to Hirondina Borges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause it is a genetic disease, or not, hereditary or sporadic, it is important to have updates with healthcare professionals in order to monitor patients and their families,\u201d highlighted one of the trainers of the training program, F\u00e1tima Vaz.<\/p>\n<p>She emphasized the importance of delving deeper into these cases so that \u201cgood results\u201d can be achieved in cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we did was share our experience, how we set up our structure, how we collect family histories and how they are archived, studied, how they evolve, and what the most frequent hereditary syndromes are,\u201d explained F\u00e1tima Vaz.<\/p>\n<p>For the trainer, the prevention of hereditary cancer is encompassed in general cancer prevention, associated with measures such as physical exercise, maintaining a healthy weight, eating a proper diet, and possible prevention, such as HPV vaccination against cervical cancer.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, she draws the attention of families to the importance of early diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>The training course on Hereditary Cancer concludes today in Praia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Cape verde<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Cape verde. The Clinical Director of the Agostinho University Hospital (HUAN), Hirondina Borges, assured today that the hospital intends to begin, this month, consultations for the identification of hereditary cancer, as is done in several countries. 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