León, Gto., October 19, 2018.- For the purpose of informing and creating healthy habits around breast cancer, students of the University of Guanajuato (UG) León Campus, belonging to the Bachelor of Nursing and Obstetrics and active members of the Society of Students (SODAL) of Sciences of Health, they made an academic day in commemoration of the World Day of the fight against this disease.

The day began with the topic about the environmental pollutants, which are present in many personal care products, which can act as estrogen or hormones and have a direct interaction on the endocrine axis, a cause for breast cancer.

Also, they addressed the effects of bisphenol, a substance that is present in almost all daily-use plastics that, if exposed to high temperatures in plastic containers, are released large amounts of this component. As facilitator of this topic was the presence of Liliana Karina Ruiz García, a professor-researcher ascribed to the Department of Nursing and Obstetrics, during the session commented that in the United States the use of bisphenol is forbidden and expressed that doing it also in Mexico would bring many benefits for all living beings.

Prof. Ruíz García commented that deodorants, shampoos, hair dyes interact with each other to promote breast cancer, added that in Mexico studies have been conducted that determine that women who work in night shifts or who are flight attendants, have developed breast cancer due to hormone secretion called melatonin in prolonged hours.

Another subject exposed was the relationship of professional nurses with patients living with breast cancer, presented by Nancy Díaz García whose main objective was for the student community to perceive the woman with breast cancer, out of the physical; that they value the emotional and spiritual level of the patients.

The speaker noted that, in collaboration with other nursing professionals and as input for the presentation of her conference, a qualitative study was carried out at the University of Navarra (Spain); involving people with cancer in general, among the main premises is that people who are under the treatment of an oncological process need a spiritual accompaniment, some of these patients externalized that "our staff of confidence was the nurse. "

For the foregoing, M. Nancy Díaz García also attached to the Department of Nursing and Obstetrics at the León Campus, said that nurses should be trained scientifically and spiritually.

At the end of this intervention was the turn of another teacher, Paulina Leticia Martínez Camacho who is a teacher in Epidemiology and Health Administration by UG, in her participation showed the main protective factors and risk of breast cancer, early diagnoses, as well as the Breast Imaging reporting and Data System (BI-RADS) a method for classifying mammographic findings.

In the same path, Alejandra Jaqueline Galván Rea and Luz Alejandra Pantoja Martínez, two social service interns of the educational program of Nursing and Obstetrics offered a talk of self-exploration where they showed the most adequate techniques so at home the students can self-explore and report to their doctors any anomaly in the shape, size or surface of the skin of their breasts.

At the end of the conference, student-members of SODAL held activities to raise awareness among campus youth about the importance of self-exploration and have valuable information about this condition.

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