
12/8/2019
PUNE: Dr Sumit Shah, consultant cancer
surgeon of Prolife Cancer Centre, received the ‘Promising Surgical
Oncologist of the year – 2019 in India’, at the hands of Ashwini Kumar Choube,
Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare and a member of the 17th Lok
Sabha, at the 7th Global Healthcare Excellence Awards, 2019 &
Summit, held at New Delhi. Dr Shah received this award for his contribution in
the field of oncology, for the past 12 years.
Dr. Shah has
extensively worked on cancer awareness, tobacco de-addiction, and delivered
many talks in schools and colleges about the harmful effects of tobacco. He has
been conducting free OPD for tobacco de-addiction since the last 5 years. As
the field of oncology is growing he is promoting recent trends of organ and
function preservation surgery where along with cure, he ensures that patients
lead a quality life.
That’s not
all - he has also been performing keyhole (laparoscopy) surgeries for cancer
which keeps patients pain free with less scars and early recovery. Over the
last five years he has performed many free cancer surgeries for the
underprivileged sector in remote parts of Western Maharashtra.
Dr. Shah
recently started a comprehensive cancer hospital, Prolife Cancer
Centre in Pune, to eliminate fear of cancer from people’s mind and make
them realize that cancer is a curable disease. Cancer is the second
leading cause of death in India. In 2018 there were 22.5 lakh cancer patients.
Every year 11.5 lakh new cancer patients are detected and almost 7.84 lakh
deaths occur due to cancer. Major causes of this disease are tobacco, HPV
infection and changing lifestyle and obesity. In the western world majority of
cancers are cured, however sadly, in India most of the patients start their
treatment at a late stage.
Says Dr.
Shah, “To overcome this hurdle, we must create awareness. Most importantly
people should change their mindset and accept that cancer is a curable disease.
If we know common symptoms of common cancers in India we can detect cancer at
an early stage and treat them and they can be cured.”
“Breast and
cervical cancer in females, Oral cavity (mouth), lung and stomach cancer in
males are commonest cancers in India. While Cervical cancer can be avoided by
HPV vaccines, oral cancer can be avoided by tobacco de-addiction and the rest
by leading a healthy life style and avoiding obesity. All these common cancers
in India are due to preventable causes. Timely action and increase in awareness
can reduce half of cancer burden in India”, sums up Dr. Shah.
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