{"id":9416,"date":"2013-02-03T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T05:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/cancer-awareness-what-can-be-done\/"},"modified":"2018-06-04T16:56:16","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:56:16","slug":"cancer-awareness-what-can-be-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/cancer-awareness-what-can-be-done\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer Awareness \u2026What can be done?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nDr KK Aggarwal<\/i><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n<\/strong>Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee<\/strong><\/div>\n
\nPresident, Heart Care Foundation of India<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nWhile much has been done to control cancer\u2026\u2026\u2026a lot still needs to be done.<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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    \nCancer should be declared as a \u2018Notifiable Disease.\u2019 Cancer notification will help reporting, detection, diagnosis confirmation, early therapeutic intervention and arranging remedial measures wherever therapeutics\/ expertise are not available.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n
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    \nCancer should be included in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) similar to the Govt.\u2019s initiative to add lifestyle\u2013related disease in NRHM.<\/div>\n
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    \nThe National Cancer Calendar should be zealously observed to focus cancer awareness on new and old problems that exist in our society that are related to cancers in Indian women, senior citizens, children, youth and middle\u2013aged. These problems include Tobacco, HIV\/AIDS, western lifestyles, freedom in sexual relations, depleting ozone layer, and atmospheric pollution. Educating people about Self Examination is an important part of cancer control. Such continuous and round\u2013the\u2013year cancer awareness though the National Cancer Calendar will leave deeper impact on the literate and illiterate population as well as those at the helm of policymaking about cancer.<\/div>\n
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    \nHepatitis B and HPV vaccination of the at\u2013risk population can prevent most cancer in this population. Promotion of vaccination and reducing the cost of vaccines are thus the need of the hour.<\/div>\n
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    \nNew regional cancer centers should be set up and the existing regional cancer centers should be further strengthened and upgraded that are within reach to people who do not have access to these facilities in their areas. This would also take care of follow up of patients, which is an important part of cancer control.<\/div>\n
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    \nMore Centers of Excellence should initiate DM and M.Ch and integrated MD Radiotherapy courses, Integrated Postgraduation for oncological sciences M.Sc\/DNB courses in Medical Physics. More trained doctors would be available to provide comprehensive cancer care.<\/div>\n
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    \nOncology as a clinical science should be introduced in the Undergraduate syllabi of MBBS, BAMS, BUMS and BHMS<\/div>\n
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    \nThe reach of the television media today is tremendous. This should be utilized to the full and they should be involved in creating more cancer-related programs that are more oriented towards prevention of cancer.<\/div>\n
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    \nStronger enforcement of tobacco, alcohol and food legislation<\/div>\n
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    \nImproving the standards of cancer research to improve the understanding of cancer biology and development of more effective cancer treatment options.<\/div>\n
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    Dr KK Aggarwal Padma Shri and Dr B C Roy National Awardee President, Heart Care Foundation of India While much has been done to control cancer\u2026\u2026\u2026a lot still needs to be done. Cancer should be declared as a \u2018Notifiable Disease.\u2019 Cancer notification will help reporting, detection, diagnosis confirmation, early therapeutic intervention and arranging remedial measures wherever therapeutics\/ expertise are not available. Cancer should be included in the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) similar to the Govt.\u2019s initiative to add lifestyle\u2013related disease in NRHM. The National Cancer Calendar should be zealously observed to focus cancer awareness on new and old problems <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,1,66],"tags":[80,65,1879],"class_list":["post-9416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-update","category-useful-informations","tag-health","tag-member-article","tag-update","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39586,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions\/39586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}