The number of adults with cancer is expected to double soon.

so what are we doing?

Every year the proportion of adults diagnosed with cancer increases, and by 2050 the number is estimated to double.

Prof. Gil Bar Sela explains and raises necessary solutions.

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02/02/2022

Wednesday, 02 February 2022, 08:30 Updated: 15:10

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In the video: How do you deal with cancer in old age?

(Edited by Dina Mahfutz)

Cancer is the first cause of death in Israel and the second in the world after heart disease, and it is one of the reasons that the treatment of the disease occupies the health systems all over the globe.

The increase in life expectancy also appears to have led to an increase in the proportion of adults with cancer, but although their share of the population is becoming increasingly dominant, health systems are not working hard enough to tailor disease treatment to their unique needs and characteristics.

In fact, every year, the proportion of adults diagnosed with cancer increases, with it estimated that by 2050, the number of adults over the age of 60 with the disease is expected to double.

Is there a solution to this?

Prof. Gil Bar Sela with the answers.

"The medical system was supposed to create a custom shell" (Photo: ShutterStock)

"The medical perspective needs to change, because medicine is actually multidisciplinary at least in cancer," said Prof. Gil Bar Sela, chairman of the Oncology and Radiotherapy Association and director of the oncology department at Valley Medical Center. , A family doctor, a nutritionist and perhaps also a psychologist.

Creating this shell is basically custom medicine - it's something everyone's clear it should be but to say it's everyday in complex cases, it's still missing a name.

We are far from the ideal.

"" The medical system was supposed to create a custom envelope, "added Prof. Bar Sela.

There is a very large variety and many treatment options. "

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