Screening Oral Cancer, Cervical Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases

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India

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Ongoing

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http://sana.mit.edu

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START DATE - 2010

Study of the cost-effectiveness, scalability and sustainability of training health workers and general physicians to use mobile tools to screen for and manage oral cancer, cervical cancer and cardiovascular diseases, such as coronary heart disease, arrhythmia's, and heart failure in rural and semi-urban India. As of July 2011, the study has screened around 6,000 people for oral cancer in Bangalore. The plan is to screen nearly 1.5 million people over the next year in the province of Karnataka. Sana has partnered Narayana Hrudayalaya Hospital in Bangalore to pilot the use of the tool.