The model will be adopted in Saint Paul and then will be brought to other states
THE Oncoclinic and the Hapvida Nodame Thursday 27, a partnership for outpatient assistance in oncology. The radiotherapy service, provided for in some Hapvida products, can also be expanded.
According to companies, the initiative will begin with the Metropolitan Region of San Paolo, with the expansion potential within the State. In the coming months, the collaboration should also reach Minas Gerais users, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná.
The idea, they say, arrived in October 2024, when the founder and CEO of Oncoclínica, Bruno Ferrari and the board of directors of Hapvida gathered to discuss solutions to the challenges of oncology in additional health. With the model, companies try to combine skills in the treatment of cancer with more agile process assistance.
Oncoclinicas currently has outpatient clinics and cancer treatment centers, in a follow -up model of a patient in different assistance phases. Hapvida has almost 16 million users and has 88 hospitals, 77 emergency units, 341 medical clinics and 291 diagnostic images and laboratory collection centers.
Main cause of death
THE Number of Brazilian cities in which the main cause of death because the disease is the Cancer has increased in recent years, according to a survey published in scientific magazine The Lancet Regional Health – Americas.
Of the 5,570 municipalities in the country, 727 (13%) had cancer first in the list in 2019. The number has almost doubled since 2000, when that was the reality of only 366 cities (7%).
The change, according to scientists, indicates that the Brazilians live more and that the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, which first has evolved.
Cancer diagnoses, in turn, should continue to increase. According to the National Cancer Institute (Inca)704 thousand new cases are foreseen this year, in particular the South and the South -est, which concentrate about 70% of the incidence.
Source: Terra
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