Rohtak: Every year lakhs of people in the country die due to cancer. The cost of treatment for cancer is huge. Apart from this, the pain that one has to face during the treatment is another matter. Dr. Umesh Yadav, Associate Professor of the Department of Orthopedics, PGIMS, Rohtak has developed a new technique for the treatment of patients suffering from skin cancer. With this technique, there will be no need to cut the patient’s hand or any affected portion of the human body during the operation. This technique not only saves the patient’s affected organ from being cut, but the cost involved in this will also be very low.
According to Dr S.K Singhal, Director PGIMS Rohtak, scientists are getting new successes every day in the treatment of cancer with the help of technology and research. Due to which its treatment has become more accessible than before, but there are still many types of cancer for which the patient has to undergo amputation in surgery for treatment, but now especially patients suffering from skin cancer will not have to go through the pain of amputation. He said that PGIMS gets three to four patients suffering from skin cancer every month which involves huge expenses along with painful surgery of the affected portion in the body to remove hard lumps to avoid spread in the body. He said, Dr. Umesh Yadav, Associate Professor, Department of Orthopedics, PGIMS alongwith Dr Abhishek Verma after four years of hard work in the treatment of patients suffering from skin cancer, has developed such a technique due to which now there will be no need to cut the patient’s hand during the operation.
Dr Umesh Yadav while talking said that out of all the operations he has done so far, cancer has not recurred in any patient. This technique of operation on cancer patients not only saves the patient from getting his hand or any other part of body amputated but the cost involved in this is also very low. He said that every month a couple of patients suffering from skin cancer come to the institute, surgery is still required for its treatment. After determining the stage of cancer the patient has through biopsy, the lump in the patient’s body is removed through surgery and then plastic surgery is done at that place. In which a part of the skin is taken from the stomach or thigh and transplanted.
