Wednesday, June 12, 2013
How Vinegar Saving 73,000 Women From Cancer
Nearly two decades ago, a doctor named Surendra S Shastri preventive oncology center commissioned at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai, India.
One of the biggest jobs is to figure out how to cope with the growth of fatalities due to cervical cancer, a disease that has killed 200,000 women per year in developing countries.
Unlike other cancers, cervical cancer begins as a pre-cancerous lesion that accumulates mutations. Pap smears, a technique invented in 1920 by George Papanicolau, Greek pathologist at Cornell University, took the lining cells of the cervix and sent to a lab to be analyzed under a microscope.
Because in India there is no complete laboratory, Shastri look for other ways to analyze the cell. He uses acetic acid (vinegar solution essentially sterile, Ed.) To the cervix.
The result, acetic acid makes cancer cells turn white within a minute and normal cells and healthy tetapberwarna pink.
Shastri then train health workers there untukmemberikan immunization and preventive measures with acetic acid. In 1998, he obtained a grant from the National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health, Ed.), USA. The result, vinegar successfully reduced cervical cancer death rate of 16.2 women per 100,000 to 11.1 per 100,000 women. In other words, the reduction peak at 31 percent.
"It's amazing," said Carol Aghajanian, chief of gynecologic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. "Thousands of lives could be saved by this inexpensive technique."
Shastri and his colleagues estimated that in India alone, the introduction of acetic acid screening could prevent 22,000 deaths every year of cervical cancer. If it can be institutionalized throughout the developing world, then it will also save 73,000 lives.
Based on these results, the national government in India and the Maharashtra state government, instituted a screening program for all women. But for melaksanakanprosedur it to the world is not easy, a lot of challenges to be faced.
Nevertheless, the struggle Shastri and his colleagues to fruition. Sooner or later, time to prove, that their research had come to Indonesia and saved many lives.
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