Proton-beam to treat cancer in the Phl

In what could be the most ambitious project to advance the treatment of cancer in the Philippines, Department of Health Secretary Teodoro Herbosa announced his determination to push the setting up here of the first-ever proton beam radiation therapy for cancer-stricken patients. Other than the existing chemotherapy, Herbosa bared about the on-going discussions at the DOH on the possibility “to bring in proton beam therapy” as an option of treatment for Filipinos to fight cancer.

Herbosa, however, conceded “it is very expensive” to build one. He noted there are currently 89 of such units of proton beam radiation as therapy for specific cancer ailments being used in the United States , Japan and Singapore, to name some of these countries.For now though, Herbosa cited, he is only too hopeful to see soon the rise of the 20-storey Philippine Cancer Center that already had groundbreaking last month.

The P350-billion allocation of the DOH under the 2024 General Appropriations Act , Herbosa cited, is being supported by government revenues from the so-called “sin taxes” collected from cigarette and alcoholic products. “It is also called as cancer tax,” Herbosa jokingly quipped. While thousands of parents rely on government school-based HPV vaccine programs to have their children protected from cervical cancer, a decrease in government spending for the HPV immunization program would mean lesser vaccine coverage and could potentially put thousands of young girls at risk of developing cervical cancer in the future. “My own feeling is we should be more future thinking,” Herbosa pointed out.

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