Angeles Cruz Martinez
Newspaper La Jornada
Thursday, May 12, 2022, p. 13
On a typical day at the Oncology Hospital of the National Medical Center (CMN) Siglo XXI of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), 600 radiotherapy sessions are performed, more than 200 chemotherapy treatments are applied, and 20 to 25 highly complex surgeries reported its director Rafael Medrano.
Yesterday, the institute celebrated the 61st anniversary of the hospital, High Specialty Medical Unit (UMAE) with a ceremony, where the director of the IMSS, Zoé Robledo, also highlighted the quality of the service offered to beneficiaries, with procedures such as chemoembolization, which consists of administering chemotherapy drugs directly to the artery, which is covered so that the applied substance remains in the place where the malignant tumor is located.
It is a procedure found in very few cancer centers. Similarly, the official stressed that the Oncology Hospital has unique robotic surgery equipment in the sector.
Robledo recalled that the support of the doctors of this UMAE is essential for the operation of the State Reference Centers for the Care of Boys and Girls with Cancer, since they collaborate with the training of personnel in these services, as well as in the update of clinical practice guidelines.
Before the ceremony, Robledo visited the remodeling area of Pathology, which, explained the director of the hospital, will be the most powerful
in capacity for the diagnosis of malignant tumors and for the training of human resources.
