Friday, January 21, 2011

Battling cancer

I just got to know that January is cancer prevention week. After talking to three family member who's spouse or siblings succumbed to cervical cancer, and seeing my own auntie battling cancer for 9 months,I remember vividly standing by her deathbed, her breathing was shallow, she became unresponsive to calls, her stare was blank, despite knowing the inevitable, my uncle kept on urging my aunt to fight, never to give up, but with the machines attached to her to read her vitals kept on beeping, she was long gone, and that the breathing and the heartbeat were self regulated despite brain dead.As long as her brainstem still works, her heart will continue to beat, breathing is purely automated. I couldn't find the heart to tell my uncle who was constantly cuddling her, saying sweet loving words to her.
I was determined then. Nobody should die like this. This is painful death. Her death doesn't stop the grieving family, the psychological, mental,and emotional scar is indescribable. Only one who goes through this knows the impact cancer has upon ones family.
And with the discovery of cervical cancer vaccine, it marked a milestone in medicine, changed the course of mankind forever.
But the sad new remained, ignorant doctors, ignorant public,. I bet those very few cancer survivors would wish the vaccine were discovered much earlier.
Often times, I felt like fighting a battalion of ignorant army all alone. How great would it be if I have brothers or sisters in arms and together we take the challenge of educating the public one by one. If the ignorant are challenging enough, what about the skeptics, those who write books and had them published, poisoning the minds of people by feeding them lies like these diseases aren't as rampant or serious as it's being told, but merely a ploy by pharmaceutical companies to earn their money, where the share holders would laugh away as the public sees  the emergence  of such vaccine is a "miracle" in medicine.
Ladies, it is a miracle. I may have said this a million times, but I will say it again. The next big thing in medicine where it's significance is at par with the discovery of cancer vaccine would probably be the discovery for the cure for AIDS.
Since the masses are rather ignorant, and probably being deluded with the thoughts that they aren't so unlucky to get cancer, well, please think again. Do you know that the charts, figures, and graphs that represents mortality were once human with family like you and me.
Don't let doubts creeps into your mind. I have been sitting in front of the computer the whole day writing proposal to human resource departments of giant companies like Maxis,Digi,Berjaya Group, and Shell.
I am offering RM165 per dose, probably one of the lowest price in the nation,well probably the lowest...
Love your siblings, wife,cousins,?Spread the news to them. The threat of cervical cancer is very real.
The least you could do is to spent some time at another site which I dedicate entirely on cervical cancer. Click here to be directed there.See your doctor today.

Friday, October 29, 2010

Message from a Cervical Cancer survivor.

Since I can't manage to get a real survivor from cervical cancer, I searched in the internet and stumbled on this two videos.
Imagine the angst, psychological,and emotional trauma one can avoid with a simple vaccination. Please ladies, wait no more..


So ladies, do no hesitate or procrastinate any longer. It can happen to you. Do you know that the 13 minutes spent on watching these videos, 6 women died of cervical cancer.
Talk to your doctor today.

Monday, October 25, 2010

Why I chose Cervarix...

At present, there are 2 vaccine against Cervical Cancer. Cervarix, by GSK, and Gardasil by MSD.
Now, one claims to be a tetravalent vaccine,which means it provide protection against 4 genotype of HPV(Human Papilloma Virus) that is responsible in triggering cellular changes that leads to cervical cancer.
Or....
One thing that is rather misleading is the claim that Gardasil being emphasized upon as a tetravalent vaccine in protecting against Cervical cancer. This is such a misleading statement. Indeed while Gardasil being a tetravalent vaccine by it's own rights does not mean it provide more protection compared to Cervarix.
Tetra- 4, the subtypes are 6,11,16,and 18
Subtype 6 and 11 causes only genital warts, and does not lead to Cervical cancer per se.
While on the other hand, Cervarix, was designed to protect against subtype 16, and 18, it however, have shown to provide cross protection against subtype 31,33, and 45.
Subtype 16,18,31,33,45 are the top 5 serotype that causes cervical cancer.
Cervarix was designed with ASO4 as an adjuvant, acting as "turbocharger" that leads to high level of antibody titre and for prolonged period of time. Mathematical formulation ha estimated that Cervarix gives protection for at least 20 years, while antibody level of Gardasil would dwindle after the 5th year after vaccination.
One of the criteria for one to develop cervical cancer would be persistent infection with HPV.
What happens then for those who was vaccinated with Gardasil after 5 years. Nobody today can tell whether the need of a booster. Though the blood antibody titre may be low, or even absent, but the B-memory cell would trigger the production of these antibodies. True. But it fails to serve its purpose as it takes 2 days for these antibodies to be produced, while it takes only 2 hours for HPV in blood circulation embed themselves at the basal membrane, isolating them from the circulating antibodies.
It  got on my nerves when I got to know that there are doctors who told the patient to chose the vaccine of their liking. Doctors are humans with their fair share of doubts. I personally emailed Dr Diane Harper, the principal researcher in both vaccines, and a committee member in WHO,
her reply is this:-
For a virus that stays dormant in the body for decades, one needs a vaccine that last much longer than the virus for which the vaccine is designed to protect against.

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

New promotion on Cervical cancer vaccination.

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Don't be shy for Pap Smears if done by Male doctors.

In view at the fact that Pap Smear has saved million of lives worldwide, to my personal opinion, one shouldn't feel shy about getting your Pap Smear done by a male doctor.
In Klinik Wan & Keluarga, we conduct Pap Smear by using the Thin Prep Pap Smear only, as conventional Pap Smears yield a significant number of false negative in it's result due to poor sampling collection and deposition of samples onto the slides.
In case if you are shy about the doctors being a male, and that the examination seemed "violating", well, to the doctor who sees both the male and female genitalia day in and out, it's nothing sexual.
Personally, its no difference from looking beneath the hood of my car to see what's wrong with it.
Seriously! I am not trying to be funny here. I am genuinely concern for your well being because you meant a lot to someone, either your parents, boyfriends, husbands,children, and my aunt was to my uncle. And I see the trauma that my uncle bears up til today, though it's been seven months since her passing due to pancreatic cancer.
Normal price for Thin Prep Pap Smear is RM90, but at Klinik Wan & Keluarga, we charge at only RM60, believing that access to proper health care it a basic human right.
Don't take chances.. Talk to your doctor today.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Successful campaign..

First public vaccination campaign-- success..
Hitler managed to convince a crowd of 2 million that their Aryan background is superior, that led to the elimination of 2 million Jewish during the Holocaust.
This man, the greatest orator of all time.....
drove his people to commit this
Genocide to the Jewish.
While Anthony Robbins, the great sort after self improvement speaker,
..Convinced his attendees to practice "Mind over matter" exercises by walking on burning hot charcoal.
While me....tried and  succeeded in getting people to protect themselves against cervical cancer by a painful vaccination.
That's the number of emptied vaccine syringe.
This is very encouraging, and as the effort that I put in creating awareness begins to sap away, this rejuvenates me and justifies and reaffirms my worthwhile effort.
 

Monday, September 20, 2010

All prepared for mass vaccination in IBM.

I am all stocked up now for the first mass vaccination.
At last, the effort and my aspirations materialized. To provide patient with proper health care with an affordable price.
I am considering lowering the price even more, specifically targeted at the lower income group of people.
I am looking at at somewhere around RM150 per dose.
I simply hoped that more people will be aware of the impact cervical cancer has on our society. Unless you know someone who had died of cancer of suffering from cancer, onl then would you able to understand how it felt like.
Death is inevitable, but the question  is, whether or not one dies with their dignity intact.
Trust me, there is no glory nor dignified in dying from cancer.