Tngmsh Chennai: Government health care providers together with experts from the Institute of Cancer will help the state identify two-thirds of cancer in the first and second stage so that they can increase the results of care and prevent death due to disease, said Minister of Health Tamil Nadu Ma Subramanian on Wednesday.
“We frame a policy that aims to identify – by 2030 – 66% of cancer in men and women in the first and second phase,” he said.
At present less than a third of cancer is identified in the first and second countries making treatment complexes and poor results.
Earlier this month, oncologists reported at least 30% reduction in new cancer cases in Tamil Nadu since 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic, in addition to delays and disruptions in treatment because most people cannot travel with Covid and some people are afraid of being infected with Covid.
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The effect of delays in diagnosis and care tends to be more severe among women when compared to men, said oncologists.
Unlike in developed countries, more women in India are diagnosed with cancer when compared to men.
Nearly 40% of cases of cancer in women are cervical or breast cancer, and this tilts the cancer ratio in most states in this country, including Tamil Nadu.
“Women’s screening for breast and cervical cancer must be able to help us reduce the case very much,” officials said.
“The state also plans precautions such as vaccination and programs to create awareness,” he said.
In addition to active screening for breast, cervical and oral diseases, the state will also improve infrastructure in cancer hospitals in Karapettai, Madurai, Nagercil and Salem, Subramanian said.
The robotic surgical unit at the Chief of the Minister of Hospital Chennai MK Stalin will dedicate a sophisticated robot surgical unit at the Tamil Nadu Multi Super Government Special Hospital in Chennai, said the Minister of Health.
Robot operations allow doctors to carry out various types of complex procedures with more precision, flexibility and control than those that are possible with conventional methods.
Usually associated with minimal invasive operations – procedures carried out through small incisions but doctors are now increasingly using it for certain traditional open surgical procedures “six private hospitals in this country have a similar unit but this is the first unit in a government hospital in Tamil Nadu.
Besides Central institutions such as Jipmer no state managed colleges have the facility, “he said.
The unit, the cost of around RS35 Crore, has been placed in the modular operating theater.
Six senior doctors in the hospital have received advanced training to work on the robot unit.
Doctors say they can use units for urological, oncological, and cardiothoracic operations.