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Our genes may increase the risk of developing certain types of cancer, such as breast, ovary, colorectal, and prostate cancers. If you have any relatives who have been diagnosed with cancer, the oncologists at HC Marbella, experts in genetics, can help you learn more about the risk of developing a determined cancer. At HC we offer you a genetic assessment with specific genetic tests for different types of cancer, in order to help you make important decisions.

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Early diagnosis of melanoma is the key to ensuring a favorable prognosis.

The identification and excision of melanomas in early stages ensures a good patient prognosis but requires monitoring and thorough skin examination periodically. In fact, survival rates are around 90-95% in cases of non-invasive melanomas. However, in their infiltrating forms melanoma has high mortality rates, with survival rates lower than 20% when it has spread to other organs

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Most cardio-vascular conditions can be treated today as a minimally invasive endovascular procedure in the cath lab. Instead of an open chest as operating field, the interventional cardiologist uses an artery, most likely the wrist artery, as entrance to our heart vessels. [Continue Reading]

Radiotherapy, together with chemotherapy and surgery is a fundamental pillar in the treatment of cancer. Over the years, in addition to medical advances, the development of technology has allowed us to perfect radiotherapy techniques, obtaining more precise and effective and safe treatments. [Continue Reading]

Nowadays, we know more about cancer tan we could have imagined a few years ago.

Traditionally, cancer was classified by its location in the body and treatment was decided based on the affected organ: lung, breast, solon, skin, blood, lymph nodes, etc. However, today it’s known that it is more precise to differentiate each type of cancer by the type of genetic mutation that causes each type.

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Our society is becoming increasingly aware of the dangers of tobacco on our health.

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Colorectal cancer is one of the most common malignancies and one of the main causes of death from cancer. Survival is much improved when a diagnosis is made at an early stage, hence the importance of screening tests to enable a diagnosis as early as possible. [Continue Reading]

Hand in hand with one of the greatest experts in advanced surgery in our country, Dr. Enrique Moreno, specialist in general and digestive surgery, accompanied by Dr. Antonio González Chamorro, specialist in general and digestive surgery, and together with Dr. Darío Ballesteros, specialist in Anesthesiology and Reanimation, and the operating room nursing team, last Friday in HC Marbella underwent a complex oncological intervention for advanced surgery for pancreatic carcinoma. [Continue Reading]

*Treatment of ovarian cancer involves the surgical removal of all the visible, existing tumour.

*For young women of reproductive age, we try to keep the healthy ovary and uterus intact, whenever possible.

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Now that the different phases of the de-escalation are taking shape, proposing the progressive return to a “normal activity”, which of course will not be normal as we enjoyed it before the Covid Pandemic19, more than ever, which ones are the behaviors that allow us to have maximum security so as not to infect others, nor to infect ourselves. [Continue Reading]

There are many news that we read these days about the coronavirus, but we really know how to act in case of contracting the virus. Dr. Álvarez, medical director of HC Marbella together with Dr. Sempere, an expert microbiologist and head of the HC laboratory, clarifies these doubts and tells us about the processes that are carried out in the hospital to treat the patient with COVID 19 in the different phases of the disease and the differences between the different tests. [Continue Reading]