Cancer prevention: diet, research, healthy exercise
Malignant cancer is the cause of one in four premature deaths in our country, with reports of 11 000 new cases per year in our region and an unfortunately constant upward trend. This is, of course, the price of, among other things, living longer and longer, but on today’s (4 February) International Cancer Day, we are talking above all about prevention: screening tests and healthy lifestyles. We encourage you to participate in prevention programmes!
The most commonly diagnosed cancers are prostate cancer, lung cancer and colorectal cancer in men and breast cancer, lung cancer and colorectal cancer in women. Lung cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and breast cancer have the highest mortality rates.
The Kujawsko-Pomorskie Regional Cancer Centre in Bydgoszcz conducts free screening tests for cervical cancer (cytology), breast cancer (mammography) and colorectal cancer (colonoscopy) as part of its prevention programmes. For more information, visit the facility’s website
The Bydgoszcz Marshall Oncology Centre is one of the best hospitals in Poland, constantly modernised and using state-of-the-art treatment, diagnostic and rehabilitation techniques; it also has a well-functioning preventive segment. Since 2022, robotic surgery has been performed at the facility, and in November the centre launched the Centre for Robotic Surgery – a new operating block equipped with three such machines. The treatment centre is the first Polish public hospital to introduce this cutting-edge technology into daily clinical practice, and the only one with three such systems.
Press Office of the Marshal’s Office
4 February 2025