SERVICES OFFERED

  • The following services are offered at SAI BALAJI CANCER CLINIC
  • Medical Oncology Consultation
  • Chemotherapy administration in the day care center
  • Cancer pain palliation
  • Psychology counselling for patients and their families
  • Providing chemotherapy medicines at a cheap cost (sometimes free of cost for the genuinely poor and needy)
MYTHS RELATED TO CANCER
  • Cancer is contagious No, Cancer is not a contagious disease. Physical proximity to a cancer patient will not harm the health of a normal individual.
  • A lump is cancerous only if it is painful No. Cancer is never painful in its early stages. In fact, a painless ulcer in the mouth or a painless lump in the breast is more likely to be cancerous.
  • Cancer treatment is painful No. Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy never induce pain. In fact, they are intended to relieve the already existing cancer pain in advanced cases. However, some chemotherapy medicines (taxanes), hormonal agents (Aromatase inhibitors) and supportive medicines (Filgrastim), can cause mild, tolerable, generalised body ache after administration. They can be easily managed with Paracetamol.
  • Cancer is always incurable No. All cancers are curable in its early stage. Some cancers like Choriocarcinoma, Hodgkin's disease and Testicular cancers are curable even in its advanced stage.
  • Sugar increases cancer risk No. All cells of our body need sugar to survive. Consumed sugar is not specifically taken up by cancer cells alone. Reseaches do not support the view, that avoiding sugar shrinks or prevents cancer. On the contrary, it makes a person with cancer weaker, making him unfit for cancer treatment.
  • Acidic diet promotes cancer No. Taking an acidic or alkaline diet will not alter the blood PH. Neither will it change the environment in which cancer cells grow. Therefore, the alkalinity or acidity of ones diet cannot induce cancer or change its biology.
  • Superdiets and miracle No. Vitamins and antioxidants in general may prevent cancer. But research till date has not identified any specific super diet or an exclusive miracle remedy to cure all forms of cancer.
  • Medical and Drug companies
    suppress remedies for cancer     Absolutely wrong. Cancer research is being conducted world wide by innumerable companies, cancer centres, labs, and drug pharmas. There are millions of staff and doctors employed in them. It should be understood that the executives, administrators, staff doctors themselves and their near and dear ones suffer from cancer. Leaders of powerful nations become victims of cancer. Such being the case, there is no justification for a cancer remedy to be hidden or suppressed.
  • Cell phones and power lines
    cause cancer     See NCI Fact sheet on Cell phones and power lines causing cancer.