The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi signed a Collaboration Agreement with the UK’s University of Liverpool for “AIIMS Liverpool Collaborative Centre for Translational Research in Head and Neck Cancer - ALHNS”. The Union Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya headed over the signing of the collaboration agreement.
The AIIMS Liverpool Collaborative Centre for Translational Research in Head and Neck Cancer is anticipated to build upon the pre-existing collaboration and links between the Liverpool Head and Neck Cancer (LNHC), the University of Liverpool, and the Head and Neck Cancer Unit at AIIMS New Delhi.
The Health Ministry issued a release on Monday that said that the ALHNS also strives to have commonly articulated strategic goals in order to deliver cutting-edge medical innovation and personalized cancer treatments.
The collaboration strives to develop common standard operating procedures to access high-quality clinical datasets and tissue repositories of ethnically diverse populations, whose head and neck cancer causes differ immensely from cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking, and Human Papilloma Virus in the UK population, in difference to smokeless tobacco products in an Indian population. The ALHNS will also impact the care of patients with head and neck cancer by integrating resources at both institutions in order to expand joint research and education programmes. It is also foreseen to enrich the quality of research outputs and education.
The Union Health Minister on this occasion said that the Prime Minister’s vision is that the country should become Ayushman, where health facilities become affordable, accessible, and available to every citizen. To ensure that everyone gets healthcare facilities with quality standards, the government has worked in the past 10 years by linking the health sector.
Dr. Alok Thakkar, Professor of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery and Head of the National Cancer Institute, AIIMS, Jhajjar said that the first thing would be training exchange and exchange in terms of their scientists. He also said that they would like to work on the problem of unraveling the genetic makeup of tobacco-induced cancer because head and neck cancer is entirely tobacco-induced, unlike the developed nations where it is more of an HPV virus-induced cancer.
He also enunciates that head and neck cancer is the most common cancer in Indian men and number three in Indian women.
The Health Minister Dr. Mansukh Mandaviya virtually accompanied the fifth foundation day celebration of the National Cancer Institute of AIIMS, Jhajjar. He expressed that over the last five years, the institute has prospered, which is an exemplification of the skill and devotion of the doctors, nurses, and other health workers involved in the continuous functioning of the institute.
(Input from various sources)
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