Ukrainian women need help By Svetlana Sytina The Ukrainian Times The innovation project of creating the center of prevention of cancer of the women’s reproductive system has been drawn up at the Kiev-based National Institute of Cancer. The purpose of the project is to preserve the reproductive health of a woman through the development and introduction of diagnostics, organizational and methodological measures. In particular, the project provides for the evolvement of new methods for diagnosing and curing the precancer pathology of organs of the women’s reproductive system, coordination of management programs at medicoprophylactic institutions, as well as elaboration of records of monitoring oncogynecologic patients after treatment along organosaving programs in conjunction with reproduction centers including the cryoconservation of ovarian tissue of oncologic patients with a view to participating in reproductive technologies. Besides, the project envisages the organization of mobile teams that will examine Ukrainian women for the purpose of preventing malignant tumors in the gynecologic sphere and breast cancer. Prof. Lyudmila Vorobyova, head of the oncogynecologic department under the National Institute of Cancer, and Prof. Ivan Smolanka, head of the department of tumors of the mammary gland and its reconstructive surgery, take an active part in the organization of the center and have long been tackling the above problem. In 2012 the Institute of Cancer published two Vorobyova’s monographs entitled “Practical Oncogynecology” and “Cytological Screening of Cancer of the Neck of the Womb” as foreign colleagues take a keen interest in the experience accumulated by Lyudmila Vorobyova, chief oncogynecologist of the Ministry of Public Health. According to many experts and particularly Vasily Chekhun, director of the R.E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology, today Prof. Vorobyova is seen as the best expert in her sphere and charismatic surgeon who saved hundreds of patients’ lives. Although the chief oncogynecologist and her colleagues are taking first steps in the implementation of the project, budgetary limitations slow down the process. Importantly, the creation of the center of prevention of cancer of the women’s reproductive system is laid down in a state program for a fight against oncologic diseases for the period ending in 2016. The center requires an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, colposcope, mammography, hysteroscope, magnetoresonance and computerized tomographs. Many observers, including The Ukrainian Times, think the Azarov government should raise the social status of scientists. A favorable trend is its intense interest in science, medicine and engineering in Ukraine. Countries like China, India, Brazil and Russia, despite recent slowdowns in growth, are making progress in improving their scientific networks. Additional information: [email protected]
Posted on: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:04:45 +0000