SILCHAR, Aug 24: A four-day programme on Psycho-oncology counselling and prevention of cancer began here on Sunday organized by Cachar Cancer Hospital Society. Heralding the programme in the counselling hall of the hospital before a selected audience of doctors, staff members, students as well as others, Sweetha Lakshmi explained in brief the objective and touched upon relevant aspect of the disease which has assumed a dimension of concern in Barak Valley.
Cachar Cancer Hospital Society and Research Centre general secretary Dr Chinmoy Chowdhury outlined succinctly the growth and development of this hospital since its inception in 1994 with generous contributions from all sections of people, rich and poor, corporate houses, institutions and organizations and above all magnanimous political leaders of all hues. Today, he pointed out, the hospital set up with the objectives of awareness, detection, treatment with latest methodology and to have a research centre has come a long way.
Patients from North Cachar Hills, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura, apart from this valley, come to this centre for treatment.
Participating in the programme as resource person, New Projects, Cancer Patients’ Aid Association (CPAA), Mumbai, executive director Dr Shubha Maudgal in her hour-long discourse, in a simple and lucid manner, said earlier cancer was regarded as a disease of the west. Today, it has become global. CPAA, she added, since its initiation in 1969 has been taking care of the poor and needy patients. The problem of cancer “in our country is that certain myths and misgivings have come to be associated with it which stand in the way of its detection”, she stated.
The philosophy of her association is total management of cancer with stress on education and awareness, guidance and counselling as support to treatment and rehabilitation. Women in particular with inhibitions are motivated for diagnostic check up. “99 per cent of cancer can be cured if detected in time”, she maintained.
Referring to risk factors, Dr Maudgal pinpointed all sorts of reasons leading to cancer like tobacco consumption, habit of smoking, alcoholism, early marriage and multiple partners along with age, race and family background of a patient. Among the causative factors are dietary habits, life style, continuous irritation at the same spot, natural carcinogens and exposition to chemicals and x-rays.
Continuing, she further explained cancer, environmental or heredity, is considered to be a genetic disease. Much of the support of diagnosis and therapy controlled lies in genetics. Cancer occurs when cells that are not normal grow and spread fast. These cells may not always be the product of a single abnormal cell that is monoclonal.
One way of identifying the causes of cancer is by studying population comparing cancer rates among various groups of people exposed to different factors and exhibiting different behaviours. A major finding of population study is that cancer arises with strikingly different frequencies at different places. For example, she said, stomach cancer is frequent in Japan, liver cancer in China, skin cancer in Australia, colon cancer in America, cervical cancer in Brazil, head and neck and cervical cancer in India.
In all cases, it is psycho-oncology counselling that helps the patients overcome their trauma. Mumbai CPAA Susmita Mitra and Bharat Group of Schools and Colleges, Thane, academic coordinator Dr Rita Banik assisted Dr Maudgal in her deliberations. THE SENTINEL
Cachar Cancer Hospital Society and Research Centre general secretary Dr Chinmoy Chowdhury outlined succinctly the growth and development of this hospital since its inception in 1994 with generous contributions from all sections of people, rich and poor, corporate houses, institutions and organizations and above all magnanimous political leaders of all hues. Today, he pointed out, the hospital set up with the objectives of awareness, detection, treatment with latest methodology and to have a research centre has come a long way.
Patients from North Cachar Hills, Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura, apart from this valley, come to this centre for treatment.
Participating in the programme as resource person, New Projects, Cancer Patients’ Aid Association (CPAA), Mumbai, executive director Dr Shubha Maudgal in her hour-long discourse, in a simple and lucid manner, said earlier cancer was regarded as a disease of the west. Today, it has become global. CPAA, she added, since its initiation in 1969 has been taking care of the poor and needy patients. The problem of cancer “in our country is that certain myths and misgivings have come to be associated with it which stand in the way of its detection”, she stated.
The philosophy of her association is total management of cancer with stress on education and awareness, guidance and counselling as support to treatment and rehabilitation. Women in particular with inhibitions are motivated for diagnostic check up. “99 per cent of cancer can be cured if detected in time”, she maintained.
Referring to risk factors, Dr Maudgal pinpointed all sorts of reasons leading to cancer like tobacco consumption, habit of smoking, alcoholism, early marriage and multiple partners along with age, race and family background of a patient. Among the causative factors are dietary habits, life style, continuous irritation at the same spot, natural carcinogens and exposition to chemicals and x-rays.
Continuing, she further explained cancer, environmental or heredity, is considered to be a genetic disease. Much of the support of diagnosis and therapy controlled lies in genetics. Cancer occurs when cells that are not normal grow and spread fast. These cells may not always be the product of a single abnormal cell that is monoclonal.
One way of identifying the causes of cancer is by studying population comparing cancer rates among various groups of people exposed to different factors and exhibiting different behaviours. A major finding of population study is that cancer arises with strikingly different frequencies at different places. For example, she said, stomach cancer is frequent in Japan, liver cancer in China, skin cancer in Australia, colon cancer in America, cervical cancer in Brazil, head and neck and cervical cancer in India.
In all cases, it is psycho-oncology counselling that helps the patients overcome their trauma. Mumbai CPAA Susmita Mitra and Bharat Group of Schools and Colleges, Thane, academic coordinator Dr Rita Banik assisted Dr Maudgal in her deliberations. THE SENTINEL
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