A project has achieved significant results improving breast cancer management in Vietnam by raising the community’s awareness, increasing early diagnosis to enhance treatment capability and building a diagnosis and treatment database.
The level of early diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in Vietnam is becoming more and more consistent with countries that have better medical services like France and the Republic of Korea (RoK), heard a symposium in Hanoi on April 2.
The Ministry of Health and Vietnam Medical Association will work together on improving access to innovative therapies for high-risk breast cancer patients in Vietnam during 2020-25 as part of a Memorandum of Understanding signed on January 19.
VIETRAD, an online platform developed over the last year that uses machine learning technology to test, monitor and improve radiologic diagnosis of breast cancer, was launched on November 12. The VIETRAD project was developed thanks to the funding of more than 340,000 AUD by the Australian Government through its Aus4Innovation programme.
Young women aged less than 25 and men suffering from breast cancer has become not uncommon in Vietnam, said Dr Tran Nguyen Ha of the Ho Chi City Oncology Hospital.
Nearly 300 professors, doctors and leading oncologists have gathered in central Da Nang city to take part in a national conference on cancer prevention and control which opened on April 27.
A campaign encouraging women aged from 40 upwards to take breast cancer screening was launched by the Ministry of Health and the Supporting Fund for Cancer Patients – Bright Future in HCM City.
The Ministry of Health and the Supporting Fund for Cancer Patients – Bright Future on October 14 jointly launched a campaign to give free breast cancer screening for 10,000 women from 40 years old.
More than 200 doctors and cancer specialists participated in a scientific conference in Hanoi to update their knowledge about new methods of treating breast cancer.
As many as 17,000 women received breast cancer examinations during the past three years in Vietnam, as a result of a breast cancer prevention and control project.
A campaign for controlling the incidence of breast cancer was launched on October 16 in Hanoi by the health ministry, the Supportive Fund for Cancer Patients-Bright Future Fund and Roche Company.