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Regular Do It Yourself (DIY) Breast Self-Examination (BSE) is a powerful and simple way to detect possible breast cancer at its earliest stage. Women, especially those with a family history of cancer, must make it a point to perform these checks regularly.
In the spirit of International Women’s Day 2024, this blog delves into the critical role of inclusivity of women in cancer care, as seen through the eyes of our inspiring women leaders and doctors at Karkinos Healthcare.
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With the optimum use of technology, we at Karkinos Healthcare and IVDP are confident that such targeted community cancer screening programmes will bring about a marked decrease in the cancer incidence and burden observed in India.
With early cancer detection and prevention as a mission, Karkinos Healthcare is set to redefine cancer care by moving towards a more community-based approach. Operational strategies are planned to make this a possibility.
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This strategic partnership will lay the groundwork for systematic screening for common cancers in Chennai.
The fact that 178,500 new breast cancer cases occur and 90,500 women die of it every year underscores the urgent need for reducing breast cancer burden in India.
The uniqueness of this program is that citizens were ensured of an end-to-end service by Karkinos Healthcare. At no point was the citizen made to drop out of the programme. The staff and volunteers of Karkinos and the Panchayat strived to ensure that high risk citizens, identified in the early detection camp, were guided appropriately to the next step towards cancer care.
The partnership with Westminster Hospital further strengthens our intent to address the cancer burden in citizens across Chennai and Tamil Nadu, especially for those who might otherwise be unable to receive these life-saving facilities.
In this exclusively compiled article for ETHealthWorld, Dr. Moni Abraham K., Co-Founder, Medical Director, Karkinos Kerala, and R Venkataramanan, Founder and CEO, Karkinos Healthcare, elaborate on how technology offers several advantages to address disparities in cancer care.
The joint initiative will provide access to potentially life-saving Cancer Screening facilities to those belonging to economically backward categories, as they are the ones who need such facilities the most, due to a lack of awareness and funds for such tests.
Noticed a lump in your breast? Don’t worry! It may not be cancerous. It is important to understand that most breast lumps are not cancerous. A lump may be malignant (cancerous) or precancerous, but there are several types of breast lumps that are benign (noncancerous).…
Karkinos Healthcare in collaboration with the Govt. of Manipur will set up a state-of-the-art greenfield center in a period of eight months from now at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Medical Sciences (JNIMS).
As part of this tie-up called ‘Light it Pink’ and to mark October as the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Ripon Building, the iconic structure of Chennai Corporation, was lit up in pink on 31st October 2021.
New treatment interventions and progress in understanding the biology of cancer truly changed the overall prognosis and survival indices in breast cancer.
We as a community need to work together and not just brace it but contribute to the dawn of new innovative and creative thoughts to cancel and checkmate cancer and overcome the challenges for a better tomorrow.
This strategic collaboration will enable continued innovation in cancer care with the goal of transforming cancer care in India and abroad.
Together, Karkinos Healthcare and GenWorks will provide primary screening through HPV DNA tests, and confirmatory diagnoses through colposcopy at the clinics and hospitals of the partner gynecologists.
Karkinos Healthcare has laid down its primary goal to shift the focus of cancer care towards the left side of the spectrum, i.e., early detection and infuse a behavioral shift among citizens in their attitude from illness to wellness.