Cancer of the Cervixis common India.The recovery rate is good.English: Sonia Gandhi, Indian politician, president of the Indian National Congress and the widow of former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi. Français : Sonia Gandhi, une femme politique indienne, présidente du parti du congrès indien, et veuve de Rajiv Gandhi, ancien premier ministre de l’Inde. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Hope she recovers permanently and regains to her normal health.
The rumours of Sonia Gandhi having been operated for a cancer surgery have proved to be true. A report in Deccan Herald has said that Sonia Gandhi has been operated upon for cervical cancer at Memorial Sloan—Kettering Cancer Centre (MSKCC) —in New York on Thursday.
“The surgery, lasting about one hour was conducted by a team of doctors led by leading Indian-American physician Dr Dattatreyudu Nori and Sonia Gandhi is likely to spend up to a month’s time for post-surgery follow-up treatment, the report said. Cervix cancer is a very common disease among the Indian as well as European women. Worldwide, cervical cancer is the fifth most deadly cancer in women. There are an estimated 470,000 new cases of cervical cancer, and 233,000 deaths per year.
Dr Dattatreyudu Nori is Professor and Executive Vice Chairman of the Radiation Oncology Department at The New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. Dr. Nori completed his undergraduate training at Kurnool Medical College and received his postgraduate medical degree from Osmania University in India. He then joined the staff of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York City, where he became Chief of the Brachytherapy Service before accepting the current position as Chairman of Radiation Oncology at Cornell.
It is Dr Nori’s expertise in Brachytherapy, a special form of Radiotherapy used in cancer treatment that might have made him the first choice to lead the team of cancer specialists treating Sonia Gandhi. Dr. Nori has an international reputation as a pioneer and authority in radiation oncology and Brachytherapy. He was instrumental in introducing the current techniques and clinical concepts of High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for gynaecological & genitourinary tumours. Dr Nori has been past President of the American Brachytherapy Society.
It could be possible that Sonia Gandhi might be getting treatment for Cervix cancer for some time in the form of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), a treatment of choice in early cervical cancers. Getting a recurrence, even after completion of EBRT treatment in India, could have been a reason for her to fly to the world’s beat cancer hospital for further treatment at such a short notice. The surgery done in such recurrences is called Radical Hysterectomy. Dr Nori’s involvement in this case, despite not being a surgeon, could be in the form of providing High Dose Rate Intra operative Radiation Therapy (HDR-IORT) , of which he is a world renowned expert. This treatment is very effective to treat any residual malignant cell in the surgical field after hysterectomy or if local invasion of surrounding structures like urinary bladder is there.
Brachytherapy, also known as internal radiotherapy, sealed source radiotherapy, curietherapy or endocurietherapy, is a form of radiotherapy where a radiation source is placed inside or next to the area requiring treatment. Brachytherapy is commonly used as an effective treatment for cervical and Breast cancer in women. In contrast to EBRT in which high-energy x-rays are directed at the tumour from outside the body, brachytherapy involves the precise placement of radiation sources directly at the site of the cancerous tumour.
It could be possible that Sonia Gandhi might be getting treatment for Cervix cancer for some time in the form of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), a treatment of choice in early cervical cancers. Getting a recurrence, even after completion of EBRT treatment in India, could have been a reason for her to fly to the world’s beat cancer hospital for further treatment at such a short notice. The surgery done in such recurrences is called Radical Hysterectomy. Dr Nori’s involvement in this case, despite not being a surgeon, could be in the form of providing High Dose Rate Intra operative Radiation Therapy (HDR-IORT) , of which he is a world renowned expert. This treatment is very effective to treat any residual malignant cell in the surgical field after hysterectomy or if local invasion of surrounding structures like urinary bladder is there.
‘Fears that Congress president Sonia Gandhi could be battling cancer have been put to rest by tests conducted at a hospital in New York, a source close to her family has told The Hindu.
“The tests are clear,” the source said, adding that Ms. Gandhi now expects to return to work on Monday after returning from New York.
Ms. Gandhi had travelled to the United States earlier this month, for the latest in a series of check-ups following surgery for an undisclosed illness in August 2011. Party spokesperson Janardhan Dwivedi had said at the time that the surgery had been successful, but did not disclose where she had gone for treatment.
The Gandhi family and the Congress party have dealt with Ms Gandhi’s illness as a “personal matter” that requires no public explanation. True, politicians are entitled to privacy in matters of health. But this right to privacy cannot hold if it impacts on their work. Ms Gandhi has led the Congress for more than a decade; her party’s election victories are credited to her leadership. The argument that Ms Gandhi does not hold high office, is not the head of the government, and therefore her illness is not a matter of public importance, hardly holds. Since 2004, she has been seen universally as the main power centre in the UPA. Clearly, several matters of national importance ride on her health, including her ability to lead the party into the next election, and the issue of succession in the Congress leadership, should this become necessary. These are not private matters.
The hush-hush is reminiscent of the secrecy that surrounded the condition of Leonid Brezhnev as the Soviet leader’s health deteriorated through 1982. While the official line was that he was suffering from only a minor ailment, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union had already worked out a line of succession.
On the other hand, we have the openness of former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani’s battle with prostate cancer, whose let’s-talk-about-it attitude helped the cancer awareness campaign in the U.S. turn him into an iconic survivor of the disease. More recently, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez spoke publicly about his battle with cancer.
That the Congress should be secretive about Ms Gandhi’s health is not surprising. What is surprising, though, is the omertà being observed by the news media, usually described by international writers as feisty and raucous. On this particular issue, reverential is the more fitting description. Barring editorials in the Business Standard and MailToday, no other media organisation has thought it fit to question the secrecy surrounding the health of the government’s de facto Number One.
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