DOHA: Over 50 physicians and nurses took part in a four-day workshop about cervical cancer screening organised by Primary Health Care Corporation (PHCC). The aim of this course, which started on May 7 and ended yesterday, was to improve PHCC doctors and nurses knowledge and skills on the latest Cervical Screening Protocol and required forms.
This workshop aims to enhance participants’ client pathway to the available resources in each health center; assuring that PHCC is providing the finest quality of service, and the ability to assess the required resources needed for an appropriate implementation programme.
Dr Hessa Shahbic, Head of Maternal Health Section, assured that cervical cancer can often be successfully treated when it is found early.
“Screening tests offer the best chance to detect cervical cancer at its early stage when successful treatment is probable. Also, screening can actually prevent most cervical cancers by finding abnormal cervix cell changes so that they can be treated before they have a chance to turn into a cervical cancer”, she added.
The expert highlighted that cervical cancer deaths are higher in populations around the world where women do not have routine cervical cancer screening. In fact, cervical cancer is the second major cause of cancer deaths in women in many developing countries. In these cases, women are usually diagnosed with late stage cancers, rather than pre-cancers or early cancers.
With cancer being the third leading cause of death in the State of Qatar, Primary Health Care Corporation is strongly supporting the initiative to tackle a rapid and definitive diagnosis for suspected cancer cases in Qatar.
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