{"id":235041,"date":"2024-02-17T00:59:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=235041"},"modified":"2024-02-17T00:59:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T19:29:44","slug":"cancer-screening-camp-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/cancer-screening-camp-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Cancer screening camp underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, 16 Feb:<\/strong> A three-day cancer screening camp, organised by the Indian Medical Association&#8217;s Arunachal Pradesh unit, in collaboration with the State Cancer Society and Assam&#8217;s Guwahati-based Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI), began at Bakin Pertin General Hospital (BPGH) here in East Siang district on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camp received overwhelming response on the first day as a large number of people from East Siang and neighbouring districts turned up to get themselves checked-up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cancer experts from the tertiary care centres of TRIHMS and BBCI educated the people about cancer, and about how to prevent\/treat it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Specialists from various hospitals of the state, including TRIHMS, Heema Hospital, RK Mission Hospital, BPGH, and the Lower Dibang Valley district hospital are conducting the camp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camp is being organised basically to screen for five common cancers &#8211; oral, breast, stomach, liver and cervical. Advanced and invasive procedures, like upper GI endoscopy, ultrasonography and Pap smear, are also being carried out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The camp was inaugurated by Deputy Commissioner Tayi Taggu. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, 16 Feb: A three-day cancer screening camp, organised by the Indian Medical Association&#8217;s Arunachal Pradesh unit, in collaboration with the State Cancer Society and Assam&#8217;s Guwahati-based Dr B Borooah Cancer Institute (BBCI), began at Bakin Pertin General Hospital (BPGH) here in East Siang district on Friday. The camp received overwhelming response on the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235041","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}