– Dr BindaAimed at tackling cervical cancer in sexually active women of child-bearing age, the Visual Inspection with Ascetic Acid screening, commonly referred to as VIA, has been yielding much success.? This notion was highlighted recently by Dr Angela Binda,Cheap NFL Jerseys Supply, Administrator (ag) at the Leonora Diagnostic Center. The occasion for her disclosure was Region Three’s observance of World Health Day which was characterised by a mini-health exhibition last week Thursday.VIA was introduced in the public health sector about three years ago at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation but has since morphed into a full-fledge mainstream feature at hospitals across the country.? In Region Three this free public service is available exclusively at the Leonora Diagnostic Centre and the West Demerara Regional Hospital,China Jerseys Cheap, according to Dr Binda.? VIA screening, she said, is designed to detect precancerous lesions on the cervix, thereby allowing the relevant health professionals to administer appropriate treatment. Precancerous lesions,NFL Jerseys Supply, she disclosed, are treated with a type of therapy that freezes and destroys them, thus preventing cervical cancer from developing altogether.? Several women who were detected with precancerous lesions have since been successfully treated, Dr Binda disclosed.“VIA is being viewed today as very important in protecting women against cervical cancer. A lot of people would know about mammogram and its importance in the prevention and early detection of breast cancer and while the VIA does basically the same thing for the cervix, it is a little bit better in that you detect and treat at the same time…,” Dr Binda asserted.Though there has not been any real campaign to promote VIA screening in Region Three, the doctor revealed that women have been taking advantage of the service.? This she attributed to the fact that screening is very effective,China Jerseys Wholesale, hassle-free, pain-free and simple to do. Women, she noted, are encouraged to be screened since they can have “immediate result and immediate treatment and be able to safeguard themselves against cervical cancer.”The response to VIA screening has been “tremendous” Dr Binda said,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, adding that initially the service was offered once a week at the Leonora hospital but had to be increased to twice weekly to accommodate the demand.? The West Demerara Hospital, she said, has seen a similar response.? “We have been having over 30 patients per day…All we did was put up a poster in the hospital and the word just spread around; women have been coming in to get registered and now we are having women coming in their numbers.”“We are really surprise because this is a relatively new idea and it is catching on which is in fact a very good thing,Wholesale Jerseys,” she noted.The Ministry of Health, according to Dr Binda, has been advocating for women between the ages of 20 to 49 to access VIA screening.? She explained that VIA screening is not ideal for women who are post-menopausal as the area on the cervix which is used to detect the presence of cancerous legions would have regressed.? “The older you get it becomes more difficult to detect and so we advice older women to do a pap smear instead.”? In essence, she noted that the introduction of the VIA test has served to replace the pap smear in younger women.Dr Angela Binda