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Facts about Cancer:
Cancer is one of the most leading causes of mortality in the world. There are more than 100 types of cancers affecting any part of the human body. According to the statistics of World Health Organization (WHO) in 2012, About 8.2 million people worldwide died from cancer, where 60% of world’s total new annual cases occur in Africa, Asia and Central and South America. About 70% of all cancer deaths occur in low and middle income countries.
Worldwide, the 5 most common types of cancer that kill men are lung, stomach, liver, colorectal and oesophageal cancer; whereas in case of women it is breast, lung, stomach, colorectal and cervical. In many developing countries, cervical cancer is the most common cancer. Cancers of major public health relevance such as breast, cervical and colorectal cancer can be cured if detected early and treated adequately. More than 30% of cancer could be prevented, mainly by not using tobacco, having a healthy diet, being physically active and moderating the use of alcohol. In developing countries up to 20% of cancer deaths could be prevented by immunization against the infection of HBV and HPV.
Complexity of cancer treatment:
Treatment of cancer is very complex, and the outcome is dependant on various factors like ethnic background, socioeconomic, nutritional status and genetic variations. In developing countries like India, two other compounding factors are widely varying levels of awareness of cancer amongst our people, and economic constraints. Moreover, all these days we were dependent on the western guidelines and their protocols to treat the patients, where research is carried out in their population. All these highlights the urgency and need to collect data, conduct research and establish standard guidelines from the very own population, which is not an easy task. Collecting the data in a systematic and consistent way will help all those involved in care of cancer patients, to derive accurate and objective information on treatments that will yield optimal outcomes in the population, while at the same time being cost effective.
From the literature available so far, it is a well known fact that Indian patients responds differently to different therapeutic regimens compared to rest of the world.
In this case it is important to track the outcomes of the therapeutic plans individually and carry out the clinical trials in India.
All about Indian Innovation:
A software program named ‘OncoCollect’ was developed by Prof. Dr.Ramesh Nimmagadda, the Director of Medical Oncology at Apollo Hospitals, Chennai which is used to analyze the patient's data to show treatment outcomes. This software is equipped with drugs used in cancer treatment, and doctors can choose the regimen they are using. All other forms of cancer treatment are also covered in the software including surgery and radiotherapy which is flexible for all types of cancers and lymphomas except blood cancer. The physicians could then record responses seen, toxicity/side effects, survival periods and relapses.
This innovation is to gather as much data on as many cancers from as many patients as possible. “Apart from showing us treatment outcomes, it will also show us economic costs - both costs borne by the patient, as well as costs and efficacies of certain drugs used". The training on this software is freely provided by Dr. Ramesh Nimmagadda cancer foundation.
"Congratulations to the brilliant brains of India".
I'm thankful to Miss. Saila sri, Researcher - Medtrack, Cognizant Technology Solutions for sharing this information with us.
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Deepak Kumar Bandari,
Pharm.D Intern,
Vaagdevi College of Pharmacy - India
Elsevier Student Ambassador - South Asia
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