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This article deals with some very interesting aspects related to cancer the first cause of death in many countries with a high prevalence in Cuba so it is necessary to increase prevention and education to reduce risk factors and prevalence of malignancy. Taking into account the importance of cancer awareness as well as the social therapeutic and technological resources available to Cuba for its treatment it is propose with this work to exemplify the Cuban scientific treatment of cancer as a silent epidemic of the XXI century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The illness-health process has been changed in the last years. As a matter of fact culture has been taken an important roll in the way every community sees the concepts of health and sickness and in the way they face them. Every oficial medical system has been taking all the non formal practices into account. More and more elements of natural medicine are incorporated to the every day medical practice. The evolution of the medical system to promotion and prevention programs has changed the way traditional medicine is focus. The paper pretends to show the medical anthropology development in Cuba, it's past and present. The Historical method was used to analized the information. It's concluded that the process health-illness is not sufficient studied by the cuban medical anthropology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objectives: To identify alterations in cholesterol and triacylglycerides in elderlies and its correlation with some non transmissible chronical diseases. Methods: Transversal analytic study that included elderly over 60 years old attended in "Mártires del 9 de Abril" hospital in Sagua la Grande, Villa Clara, Cuba, during 2008. Methods from the theoretical level and from the empirical level too (interviews and medical records check). Total cholesterol were determined of HDL, LDL, VLDL and triglycerides in blood serum. This methods were processed according to the criteria of the Experts Panel of the National Program of Education about Cholesterol and the analyses of the disorders of the lipid metabolism, it was done according to recommendations of the European Society of Arteriosclerosis. There were calculated three atherogenic risk factors that, with the lipids, were related with some non transmissible chronical diseases. Results: 46.39% of the orders had high total bounding cholesterol and a 24.74% high; 78.35% had a high risk associated to low levels of cardio-protection by HDL. More than a half of the cases had dyslipidemia where a third was mixed. The pathologic entity more frequent were: diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, renal damage, obesity, pancreatitis, cirrhosis of the liver and cataracts. Conclusions: Elderly people are mole vulnerable to find interventionist strategies that decrease the effects it provokes in a secondary way, the dyslipidemia. Making life styles better since birth can prevent or decrease processes that lead to alterations in the lipid metabolism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]