Cancer second leading cause of death in Barbados says health minister

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Monday April 27, 2015, CMC – Health Minister John Boyce says cancer is second leading cause of death in Barbados.

He says the main cancers of public health concern are prostate, colon, breast and cervix, which account for more than 60 per cent of sickness and death from the disease.


Addressing the Caribbean Association of Oncology and Haemotology Conference, Boyce said that cancer was second to cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in Barbados.

The conference, which ends Saturday, has attracted health care professionals from Europe, North America, Latin America and the Caribbean. It is being held under the theme “Challenges in Cancer Care Treatment – the Caribbean Perspective”.

Boyce told the conference that Barbados had a cancer registry which formed part of the Barbados National Registry for Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases (BNR) and data from the first year of operation of the cancer component has indicated that breast, uterus and cervical cancers were the leading cause of death in women, accounting for 49 per cent of all cancer deaths, while 48 per cent of total deaths in men were attributed to prostate cancer.

He said that data from the registry had already begun to positively influence policy and programme development within the Ministry of Health.

Some areas include the scaling up of the expanded programme on immunisation to include the HPV vaccination for prevention of cervical cancer, more broad-based gene testing for breast cancer and integrating palliative care, as one of the pillars of cancer treatment.

Noting that Barbadians aged 45 to 84 were particularly at risk for developing the disease, the Health Minister said that his Ministry, along with the Barbados Cancer Society and Cancer Support Services, supported an enhanced national screening programme for breast, cervix, prostate and colon cancers.

He said that work was also continuing to strengthen the country’s ability to provide quality chemotherapeutic, immunogenic, radio-therapeutic and surgical choices.

“We look forward to having fully integrated radiotherapy options for cancer treatment and these include brachytherapy, use of the gamma camera and cobalt technologies,” Boyce added.

the pure naked insanity in all this is clearly reflected in dat lead article.

that article exposes that the west indian elite is an idiotic thing with not an independent and original, or progressive thought in their collective heads.

why is the Bim and the west indies suffering heavy cancer incidence..when did this incidence begin to rise..how does it differ from cancer causation in the developed world where cancer has long been thought to be a consequence of industrialization?

there is no comparable industrialization in the west indies so why then high caner rates ::confused::

is it a consequence of west indian agriculture and heavy use of chemical inputs brought in from the industrialized world ::confused::

is it from the imported food we eat manufactured in the Industrialized world..the chemical inputs in west indian medical practices...also manufactured out there ::confused::

is it a combination of all those facts and more of the same nature ::confused:: ::confused::

instead of these skunts and dem asking what appear to be the obvious and proper questions, they elongating a huge medical bureaucracy that feeds off the 'problem'

conferences, debates, lectures, this that and the other with papers and research and etc..while people die and no answers come because they don't want any kiss mih arse answers that will spoil their free jackass lunch and god-like status as scientists, doctors etc.

god-like and yet still they cannot find answers..bureaucratic arseholes an' dem.

it is likely too that cancer has even been weaponized and is being used against the people of the world to kill off vast numbers.  we don't know and these skunts and dem don't know either.  so they are useless and wasting good time and important resources

Mapoui , any place that is rampant of buggery :

will get colon , HIV and odda associated diseases...

It is jus a matter of time b4 a Homosexual contracts these Cancers...

AND LOOKIT THIS HERE!

Quote:Some areas include the scaling up of the expanded programme on immunisation to include the HPV vaccination for prevention of cervical cancer

People in the USA, Canada, Europe are concerned about and up in arms over this vaccination. they are arguing that it causes the very cancer it is supposed to prevent.

and dem bureaucratic skunt and dem are preparing to increase its use in the west indies.  are west indian women aware of this fact..that that HPV vaccination is very, very, very...suspect ::confused::

It was launched in the High schools here many years ago .

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) is a DNA virus that is capable of infecting humans.

age group 16 - 24 year olds.