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Mobile Phone Set may Soon be Able to Detect Cancer

by Savitha.C.Muppala on September 03, 2010 at 2:30 PM Cancer News

A hospital and a research group have come out with a health service which uses mobile phones to detect cancer.

Mobile Phone Set may Soon be Able to Detect Cancer

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The Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Centre (MSCC) of the Narayana Hrudayalaya, a well-known hospital along with the SANA (a research group at Harvard/MIT), has launched the 'mhealth' that uses mobile phone to detect cancer.

The Head of Department (HOD) of Cancer in the Narayan Hriduyalya, Dr. Moni Abraham, said that usually patients visit specialists with stage four of cancer that is expensive to treat.

However, if cancer is detected early, it can be treated properly and economically, he said.

"By sitting in the building like a major cancer centre we get a lot of patients but they have very advance stage. So, we realise that we have to reach out to people; so that is the basic motive we go out to the people and try to pick up the cancer at its early stage. So, we can provide basic help to the patient.... The cost of treatment, the benefit of treatment will be significant ... than stage four disease," said Dr. Moni Abraham.

The technology that the SANA software has developed includes certain automated questionnaires, which are directed to the patient by a trained health worker.

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