Month: May 2023

Certified Tobacco Specialist Batch of May – June 2023

CTCS course accredited by Gujarat University and conducted by ICanCaRe Academy is an 8 weeks course. The May-June batch started its journey on 10.5.2023

The enthusiastic May-June 2023 Batch of the Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists course consists of doctors from various disciplines- Pulmonologist, Surgical oncologist, ENT and Head neck Onco-surgeon, Pedodontics, Oral medicine and Radiologist, dental surgeon, Community medicine, and Dietitian.

Each one is as much enthusiastic to learn more and adopt tobacco cessation in their practice.

We welcome each one of them into the ICanCaRe family as they join the #SAVEtheyouth campaign as Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists.

Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists are the most important link for the #SAVEtheyouth Campaign as they are at the pinnacle and trained extensively for intervention to successfully help quit tobacco for their patients.

CTCS course is accredited by Gujarat University and the only such course in India giving practical experience, ICanCaRe APP for digitalized protocol intervention. To know more go to http://www.icancare.in/academy/ctcs It is an 8-week course with dedicated 2.5 hours each week, with a lot of reading material, etc.

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#9th ICanCaRe Tutorial for Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists

The Ninth Tutorial for Certified Tobacco Cessation Specialists was conducted by Dr. Siddhi Hathiwala, on 15th May 2023. 26 CTCS attended the same. The agenda was set as follows:

1) Discussion on an Interventional study about ‘Training for PHC Health Workers regarding early detection of Oral Cancer & Pre-cancer’ presented by Dr. Kshipra Deshpande. Suggestions were put up by all the participants for better execution of this awareness drive

2) Discuss Srijay’s dilemma about ‘Should a wife give prescribed medicines to her smoker husband without his knowledge?’

3) Discussion on Srijay’s query about ‘How to tackle relatives who smoke and do not like to be advised to quit?’

4) Ideas and agenda planning for World No Tobacco Day as a CTCS group.

The importance of motivation for healthcare workers was highlighted. Great stress was placed on primary preventive activities at ground level by these health workers, and spreading awareness about oral self-examination by the people. It was the unanimous assertion that early detection of minor changes in the color and size of oral tissues could prevent full-blown cancer development. The ground-level health workers need to be vigilant about these features and refer patients to higher centers.

Activities that can be planned out for celebrating World No Tobacco Day, on 31st May, by the ICanCaRe family, were discussed in detail. Everyone agreed on making Flyers in their local languages and circulate them on social media to highlight tobacco cessation activities by the ICanCaRe family.

The importance of Yog and Motivating Energy for tobacco cessation patients was highlighted – Sync-energy every Sunday morning.

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Tobacco Cessation Strategies in Lung Cancer

12.5.2023 TOBACCO CESSATION STRATEGIES IN LUNG CANCER – Dr. Pawan Gupta M.Ch.

I was invited to talk about the strategy of tobacco Cessation for lung cancer patients in the Symposium on Management of Early Lung Cancer at Maple Hall, India Habitat Centre on 12.5 .2023.

About 40 young Oncologists from across all Institutes in Delhi NCR gathered for the symposium convened by Dr. Satyapal Kataria and Dr. Anshul Gupta.

These young oncologists are different, they have special bonding, unlike the older oncologists who have compartmentalized themselves in their Institutions and work only to gain patients.

The discussion was rich and educative. I as an Onco-surgeon with in-depth research in tobacco cessation and running a successful tobacco cessation center at MAX gain an insight into the simplified methodology to successful tobacco cessation protocol-based intervention. ICanCaRe protocol is a salable, scalable, and sustainable model to be adopted by all institutions.

Tobacco Cessation, a preventive aspect of oncology is generally not a part of even major conferences but was accepted very well by the young oncologists. Each one felt that they need to do more and get involved for the better treatment and future of their patients. 100% said there is a great need for tobacco cessation in their practice. A cessation expert is needed in all the hospitals.

They were eager to know about the cessation methodology. Each was more than ready to incorporate #advicequittobacco in their practice.

Appreciate #anshulgupta #satyapalkataria for the wonderful meet.

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