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New techs have simplified cancer diagnosis
A SENIOR Professor in Medicine Department at the KGMU Dr AK Tripathi said that initially the diagnosis of cancer was a difficult task and it could be the most traumatic experience for a physician to diagnose it, but the recent techniques have simplified the system of diagnosis.
A SENIOR Professor in Medicine Department at the KGMU Dr AK Tripathi said that initially the diagnosis of cancer was a difficult task and it could be the most traumatic experience for a physician to diagnose it, but the recent techniques have simplified the system of diagnosis.
Dr Agarwal while speaking on the third day of the weeklong lecture series at the Silver Jubilee Refresher Course organised by the Indian Medical Association (IMA), Kanpur Chapter here on Wednesday, said that after the diagnosis of the cancer the patient could be treated through the chemotherapy, surgery, radio-therapy and biological therapy. He said more than 50 per cent cancer cases were curable through these techniques.
He said that after the heart disease the cancer was the number one killer disease throughout the globe. Despite the fact that the incidences of the disease were decreasing and only two thirds of cancer patients were above the 65 years of age.
Dr Agarwal said that blood cancer was the commonest form of the disease and was found in a large number of patients. Besides, occupational exposures to carcinogens and excessive use of alcohol and smoking and the use of pan masala led people to fell prey to this dangerous disease, he added.
Dwelling upon the symptoms of blood cancer, he said that person suffering from it complained of weight loss, loss of appetite, continuous fever and bleeding from any part of the body. An early diagnosis of the disease could save the life of the patients, he said.
Dr Agarwal further said that new drugs and transplant of the bone marrow in the blood cancer patients has opened new vistas of hope among them. He suggested that patients should be asked to go under cancer screening. Patients even with the slightest confusing symptoms should be advised for cancer screening. He said coordinated team effort was very much required for treating cancer patients.
A noted paediatrician from Lady Harding Medical College, Delhi, Dr Jagdish Chandra dwelt upon the causes of bleeding among the children. He said bleeding occurred in children primarily due to deficiency of vitamin-K among them. Besides, the clotting factors, hereditary blood deficiency factors, thrombo-cytopenia and some other factors were responsible for the disease.
In order to treat the disease, he advised that stress should be laid upon raising the quantity of vitamin-K, platelets and fresh frozen plasma.
Professor in the Department of Cardiology at KGMU, Dr SK Dwivedi discussed the management of palpitation. He said palpitation could be an alarming indication of the onset of the coronary problems.
He suggested that if the problem of palpitation persisted the person should immediately go for a check up. Managing the palpitation problem with the help of modern techniques and improved medicines was possible, he added.
