India
New technologies to make cancer treatment easier
By IANS
Feb 12, 2006, 18:45

New technologies will soon make the diagnosis and treatment of cancer in India easier and less costly, an expert said Thursday.

"The innovative technologies like narrow band imaging, Fuji intelligent chromo endoscope and polyfex stent would help in detecting cancer, especially gastrointestinal cancer, in its earlier stage with over 95 percent accuracy and help in preventing the disease from becoming deadly," said Randhir Sud, president of the Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy of India (SGEI).

"While the cost of the treatment currently varies between Rs.100,000 and Rs.150,000, the new technologies will reduce the charge to below Rs.50,000," Sud told reporters.

SGEI, a national body of gastroenterologists and endoscopists, is holding its sixth annual conference in which the new technologies will be introduced to the participants.

The two-day conference, beginning Friday, has been organised this year by Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, which will adopt these technologies in the near future.

The conference would also showcase endosonography-scopes and linear and radial endoscopes. While the former will perform ultrasound tests and endoscope tests through one machine, the latter would help in diagnosis and biopsy.

Sud said the narrow band imaging technology would help in getting the details of superficial tissues in the intestines and in recognising the disease even a year before it starts showing symptoms.

The polyfex stent technology would also be handy in treating cancer in the food pipe.

Around 600 doctors from across the country are expected to participate in the conference.

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