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By Tricitynews Reporter
Chandigarh
14th July:- A Three Day Mega scientific meet on
Oncology, the medical specialization dealing with Cancer –‘Best of ASCO’
(American Society of Clinical Oncology) is being held for the first time in the
region. The Conference which started today in Hyatt Regency here, will be held
till July 16, in collaboration with Max Cancer Care Centre, Mohali. The
Conference is seeing a participation of as many as 500 Cancer Specialists,
Surgeons & Radiation Oncologists from abroad & across the country.
Dr Gautam Goyal, Organising Secretary
Best of ASCO & Consultant Medical Oncologist, Max Hospital & Dr. Sachin
Gupta, Co-Organising Secretary,‘Best of ASCO' held a press conference along with
Dr. Jacob Sands,Assistant Professor, Lahey Medical centre, Boston, Dr Purvish
Parikh, Director(Precision oncology), Asian Institute of Oncology, Mumbai &
Dr Harit Chaturvedi, Chairman(Cancer Care), Max Healthcare on Day 1 of
ASCO to share details of the important Oncology event on its sidelines.
Dr Gautam Goyal said that the
objective of ‘Best of ASCO’ 2017 is to review the most important, practice
changing data presented at ASCO 2017, which is the largest gathering of
Oncologists across the world & took place recently at Chicago, Illinois.
Over 3 days, Experts in specific fields of Cancer will present abstracts &
discuss foremost research & strategies in Oncology that will directly
impact patient care. The Conference will also show case research work done by
Indian Oncologists presented as at ASCO 2017.
Dr. Sachin Gupta, Co-Organising
Secretary of ‘Best of ASCO’, explained that the theme of the conference is ‘Demystifying Advances in Oncology’,
"ASCO will present on one platform recent advances on various Tumour types
and clear the research around cancer. The research showcased here will be that
which is presented to the world for the first time. The sessions focus on
cancer awareness, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, newer drugs like targeted
therapy, Immunotherapy etc.
Dr Jacob Sands said that the
highlight of ASCO will be Immuno-Oncology.
Since cancer cells are very different from normal cells in the body, the immune
system attacks them when it is able to recognize them. However, cancer cells
often find ways to disguise themselves as normal cells, so that the immune
system does not always recognize them as dangerous. As the natural immune
response to cancer cells is often not strong enough to fight off all the cancer
cells, Immuno-oncology therapies activate our immune system, making it able to recognize
cancer cells and destroy them.
Dr Harit
Chaturvedi, Chairman(Cancer Care), Max Healthcare said that speakers
will provide evidence from recent research which suggests that immuno-oncology
therapies’ effect on cancer cells, last for a long time. This exciting feature
of immuno-oncology therapies offers hope of quality survival for the very first
time to many patients for whom prognosis was previously very poor.
The other important research in the
conference is Molecular Oncology. Dr Purvish Parikh, Director(Precision
oncology), Asian Institute of Oncology, Mumbai mentioned that as the name
suggests, a specialist needs to test patient’s cancer cell for any
abnormality at genetic or DNA level & then try to counter that mutation or
change with a specific drug to get better results & less toxicity, we also
call this Precision Oncology.
The Conference gains importance with
Cancer responsible for causing mortality leading to around 0.3 million deaths
every year in India. Some International speakers who will take sessions
include Dr. Bar Jair, Dy Director, Institute of Oncology,
Sheeba Medical Centre, Israel; Dr. Jacob Sands, Dr. Amit Oza& Dr. Sanjeev
Agarwala. A few well-known names from India are Dr.Purvish Parikh,Director
Precision Medicine, Asian Institute of Oncology, Mumbai; Dr. Sudeep
Gupta, Dy Director, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai & Dr. D C Dovol, Rajeev
Gandhi Cancer Institute, Delhi among others.
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