AcuGraph 3: A Monitoring Tool of Patients’ Wellbeing
Patients generally want to know if they are making any progress with their treatment. Towards this end, doctors would send patients for mammogram, X-ray, CT scan, MRI, PET scan, bone scan, etc. These procedures cost money. Apart from that, anything that involves radiation might not be good for cancer patients. We do not encourage our patients to undergo such procedures unless it is absolutely necessary. However, if patients think that by performing such imaging procedures makes them happier or sleep better – so be it. Generally we ask patients to do the relevant blood test as a way to monitor their progress. This is non-evasive though it may tell the correct story.
When patients come to CA Care for follow up consultation, our first question is: How are you? Or how do you feel? Or, are you getting any better? We ask these questions because patients themselves ought to know if they are getting better or otherwise. Their bodies are telling them. To some people ”feeling better” is not good enough. If possible, they want something more high-tech or objective.
Sometime in late 2009, we were fortunate to learn about the AcuGraph, a digital meridian imaging device. This device provides information about a person’s meridian energy balance (see here for more: http://www.miridiatech.com/products/acugraph/index.php ). We wrote to the president of the company which makes the AcuGraph - Dr. Adrian Larsen, Miridia Technology Inc., USA. Dr. Larsen was kihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifnd enough to provide a unit of AcuGraph 3 for our research at CA Care free of charge.
Click here for photo report http://cacare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=262 (Note:thank you Dr Chris Teo for your sharing and website)
Our study thus far has shown that AcuGraph, when used and interpreted properly, could be another non-invasive tool for monitoring patients’ progress. If feeling “good”, “better “ or “more cheng sin” (has more energy); is not good enough then seeing the coloured bars produced by a computer could be more convincing. Truly this AcuGraph is a state-of-the-art, objective method of evaluation.
This is what we generally do.
Patients would have their meridian energy read using the AcuGraph 3 on their first visit to us. This will establish a base line or reference. Subsequently, every time patients come to CA Care they would have their meridian energy read. We would be able to compare the results of their meridian energy over a period of time. Thanks to Dr. Larsen – since CA Care does not need to pay for the AcuGraph 3 – meridian reading done at CA Care is free-of-charge. According to the internet, the charge (in USA) for the first examination is US$75 with follow up examinations at $35.
Case Study 1: Recurrent Metastatic Ovarian Cancer
Sandy (not real name, H277) is a 52-year old female. Sometime in 2006, she had pains in her abdomen. She consulted doctors at the government hospital and was told nothing was wrong with her. The pain persisted for more than a year. She eventually had to be admitted to a private hospital and was diagnosed with cancer. An operation was done. This procedure cost RM 5,000.00 After surgery Sandy received six cycles of chemotherapy. Each cycle cost RM 2,300.00. According to her family she was always ill after the chemotherapy.
In early 2008, the cancer recurred. She underwent a second operation. This surgery cost RM 7,000.00. The histopathology report indicated an adenocarcinoma of the ovary that had spread to the caecum and omentum. No chemotherapy was indicated this time. Sandy seemed to be well after the surgery.
In February 2010, Sandy had pains again in her abdomen besides diarrhea and difficulty breathing. A CT scan on 19 February 2010, showed:
· A 2 cm enhancing area in the spleen.
· An ill defined 3 x 2 cm lesion adherent to the tail of spleen and splenic artery.
· Slight hydronephrosis and hydroureter on the left down to L5/S1.
· A lobulated 7 x 4.5 cm lesion at L5/S1 position.
· A 6.5 x 3.5 cm lesion in the left adnexa and indenting the rectosigmoid colon.
· A 3 cm lesion in the right adnexa.
Conclusion: Fatty liver with pelvic and mesenteric metastasis with obstructive left renal system. Splenic metastasis.
Sandy was asked to undergo chemotherapy but she refused. She came to seek our help on 28 February 2010. She presented with occasional diarrhea. She had winds in her stomach. She was prescribed: Capsule A, C-tea, Utero-ovary 1 and 2, GI One and T & E teas.
On 5 March 2010 – one week on the herbs, she felt good. There was no more diarrhea. The problem with stomach wind had improved.
On 2 April 2010, she reported no more pains in her lower abdomen. Before the herbs, there were pains. She felt better and stronger. Her sleep was better than before. Her stools continued to be normal. Her breathing returned to normal, before the herbs she was breathless.
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When Sandy and her family first came to see us in February 2010, we recalled the mood that day was rather tense and gloomy. Sally broke into tears knowing that the cure for her cancer was rather remote. However, after some months on the herbs, she came in always smiling.
Talk by Dr Chris Teo : http://cacare.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=56
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Let's stay Healthy :Planning the Family's Health
THE KNOWLEDGE OF nutrition is of little value unless it is applied to your life and to the lives of those around you. The purpose of nutrition is to learn how to build the highest degree of health possible. Only through the constant application of nutritional findings can this be attained. This blogger wish you and your family all the best by using this knowledge to your advantage and spread the Healthy Wealth blog to others , for you just wouldn't know you have help someone in turn.
After some time, some form of deficiency disease showed. Water deficiency also show and cause many disease symptoms & signs. Addition of the missing /deficit element to the daily food usually effected a cure.
To produce a deficiency disease deliberately in humans requires dedicated volunteers, but it has been done from time to time and has added immeasurably to our knowledge of human body nutrition. The difficulty of applying this knowledge is perhaps the most disheartening part of this type of work. It is a surprising fact that we are seldom ready to take advantage of all the latest research that has been done in the field of medicine and nutrition if it requires a little effort on our part. And for this little negligent we pay dearly from our saving (if not yet depleted) and worst with our health.
For instance, everyone knows that smoking may cause cancer and pollute the atmosphere, but thinks it will happen to other people. Year after year more money is spent/wasted on research t prove the danger and hazards of smoking. At the same time more money is spent on increasing tobacco production and in advertising cigarettes. It is totally illogical. Nonsmokers may chide their smoking friends/family members and point to the mistake they are making, but exactly the same thing is happening in the field of nutrition.
We know which foods are good and needful for us, which ones are not so good, and which are bad, some are dangerous, but we do not follow the advice if it doesn't suit us.
Everyday we can do one of two things: 1. we can build up our health, which generate more wealth in return, - 2.or we can undermine it.
If you watch people eating in restaurants, cafeterias, or eatery shops you can see those who choose carefully in order to build their health-wealth and those who are eating their way to illness, overweight, and a shortened life span.
After some time, some form of deficiency disease showed. Water deficiency also show and cause many disease symptoms & signs. Addition of the missing /deficit element to the daily food usually effected a cure.
To produce a deficiency disease deliberately in humans requires dedicated volunteers, but it has been done from time to time and has added immeasurably to our knowledge of human body nutrition. The difficulty of applying this knowledge is perhaps the most disheartening part of this type of work. It is a surprising fact that we are seldom ready to take advantage of all the latest research that has been done in the field of medicine and nutrition if it requires a little effort on our part. And for this little negligent we pay dearly from our saving (if not yet depleted) and worst with our health.
For instance, everyone knows that smoking may cause cancer and pollute the atmosphere, but thinks it will happen to other people. Year after year more money is spent/wasted on research t prove the danger and hazards of smoking. At the same time more money is spent on increasing tobacco production and in advertising cigarettes. It is totally illogical. Nonsmokers may chide their smoking friends/family members and point to the mistake they are making, but exactly the same thing is happening in the field of nutrition.
We know which foods are good and needful for us, which ones are not so good, and which are bad, some are dangerous, but we do not follow the advice if it doesn't suit us.
Everyday we can do one of two things: 1. we can build up our health, which generate more wealth in return, - 2.or we can undermine it.
If you watch people eating in restaurants, cafeterias, or eatery shops you can see those who choose carefully in order to build their health-wealth and those who are eating their way to illness, overweight, and a shortened life span.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Patricia Neal died on Sunday
Knoxville (Tennessee)-Patricia Neal, the willowy, husky-voiced actress who won an Oscar for 1963's Hud and survived several strokes to continue acting, died on Sunday, 8thAugust 2010, aged 84 golden years.
She had lung cancer and died at her home in Massachusetts on Martha' Vineyard.
She faces her final illness as she had all of the may trials she endured : with indomitable grace, good humour and a great deal of her self-described stubbornness.
1964, she had three strokes, which left her, at age 39, semi-paralysed and unable t speak. After recovering, she limped and had bad vision in one eye.
Her struggle to regain walking and talking is regarded as epic in the annals of stroke rehabilitation.
The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center that concentrates on helping people recover from strokes and spinal cord and brain injuries is named after her, in Knoxville, where she grew up.
In the year 1960 the first tragedy struck. Her infant son, Theo, was being wheeled across a New York street by a nurse when the stroller was struck by a passing cab. The child underwent a series of operations and was left with water on the brain.
Two years later, her eldest daughter, Olivia, 7, died from brain inflammation after a case of measles, measles encephalitis.
Patricia Neal survived the strokes because of the knowledge Roald Dahl, her 30 years husband before they divorced in 1983, built up during Theo's eight brain operations. After the shunt that drained fluid from his brain kept clogging, Dahl worked with a friend retired engineer and a neurosurgeon to make a better one, the Wade-Dahl-Till valve. When Patricia Neal collapsed in their house, he knew enough to immediatey call a neurosurgeon.
Dahl badgered her into getting well. He nagged her into walking, held things out of her reach until she managed to ask for them and arranged for therapy each day.
Among her children is Tessa Dahl, who is a writer. Tessa's daughter is model-writer Sophie Dahl.
I can't see from one eye, she said in 1988.
I've been paralysed. I've fallen down and broken a hip. Stubbornness gets you through the bad times. You don't give in.
She had lung cancer and died at her home in Massachusetts on Martha' Vineyard.
She faces her final illness as she had all of the may trials she endured : with indomitable grace, good humour and a great deal of her self-described stubbornness.
1964, she had three strokes, which left her, at age 39, semi-paralysed and unable t speak. After recovering, she limped and had bad vision in one eye.
Her struggle to regain walking and talking is regarded as epic in the annals of stroke rehabilitation.
The Patricia Neal Rehabilitation Center that concentrates on helping people recover from strokes and spinal cord and brain injuries is named after her, in Knoxville, where she grew up.
In the year 1960 the first tragedy struck. Her infant son, Theo, was being wheeled across a New York street by a nurse when the stroller was struck by a passing cab. The child underwent a series of operations and was left with water on the brain.
Two years later, her eldest daughter, Olivia, 7, died from brain inflammation after a case of measles, measles encephalitis.
Patricia Neal survived the strokes because of the knowledge Roald Dahl, her 30 years husband before they divorced in 1983, built up during Theo's eight brain operations. After the shunt that drained fluid from his brain kept clogging, Dahl worked with a friend retired engineer and a neurosurgeon to make a better one, the Wade-Dahl-Till valve. When Patricia Neal collapsed in their house, he knew enough to immediatey call a neurosurgeon.
Dahl badgered her into getting well. He nagged her into walking, held things out of her reach until she managed to ask for them and arranged for therapy each day.
Among her children is Tessa Dahl, who is a writer. Tessa's daughter is model-writer Sophie Dahl.
I can't see from one eye, she said in 1988.
I've been paralysed. I've fallen down and broken a hip. Stubbornness gets you through the bad times. You don't give in.
Monday, October 4, 2010
My dear Mama died on Saturday
Saturday, August 28, 2010
My Dear Mama
Dr Lee Wei Ling shares her heart: I know life can be unkind, but I find it difficult to accept my mother's suffering.
Difficult to accept a loved one's suffering. Feeling compassion with a detachment is wise, but tough when it comes to Mama.
But the one who has been hurting the most , and is yet carrying on stoically, is my father.
It is easy when thinking in the abstract, to conclude that being born, growing old, falling sick and eventually dying is what happens to all of us. I accept these facts with no resentment that life is unkind. I have had more than my fair share of bad luck, but I never resented it, for I think suffering built up my resilience.
But I find it difficult to accept my mother's suffering. The Buddhist principle of feeling compassion but with detachment is wise, but it is not an attitude that I find humanly possible to adopt when it comes to Mama. I cannot see her suffering with detachment.
But there is nothing I can do to get her back to where she was before she suffered a massive stroke on May 12, 2008. She has been suffering since then, and so has my father. But that is life, and we all plod on, fulfilling our duties as best we can. Indeed by focusing my mind on my duties, I manage to temporarily block Mama's suffering from my consciousness.
Dr Lee Wei Ling is director of the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore.
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This is why so many heart attacks strike suddenly, unexpectedly, and with no warning. But then again, there were many signs of body dehydration which manifested and wrongly treated with drugs, hence heart attack or stroke was a kind of build-up by our health-care ignorance in reality. If only all of us were told the real underlying cause of inflammation. Read this doctor's experience with rescue a potential stroke victim(http://theinnozablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/dehydration-cause-of-strokes.html ).
The artery don't have to be totally clogged with plaque - all you need in one fragile plaque that burst at the wrong time.
Once doctors and scientists recognized that dehydration leading to inflammation was such a major player in artery disease, they could start looking for markers of inflammation, a chemical indicator that signals the presence of inflammation.
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Unintentional-Prolonged-Dehydration...
causes stroke. Stroke is one of the many survival mechanism/modes of the human body to cannibalize/recycle it own self due to unintentional-prolonged-dehydration. The percentage of water loss in the blood cells is the least among all other cells in the body and hence blood test/analysis is near impossible. Once stroke happened the limbs cells will be sacrificed , their water-content wise, to be recycled and sent to service the more important organs such as the Brain. The present approach to use invasive and surgeries to remove blood clot in the brain is only temporary, because mainstream medical societies still hold to the old "solid" paradigm in their troubleshooting procedures.
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NEWS: on front page, The Straits Times, Wednesday,June25,2008. Reporter Goh Chin Lian.
1.Mrs.Lee Kuan Yew, 87 years old, (Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew's wife) suffered another stroke (3rd one) while in hospital on 24th June, 2008. It was a massive haemorrhage.
2.She suffered a stroke (2nd one) on May 12,2008 and was taken to National Neuroscience Institute for an urgent brain scan, which revealed bleeding in the right side of the brain.
3.She suffered a stroke (1st one) in 2003 while in London, on a European tour. The bleeding was also in the right side of the brain.
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4.She died on Saturday, 2 October 2010. I was beside her when she passed away at home.
5. My father was admitted at Singapore General Hospital for lung infection.
NOTE: A diet poor in vitamin A will affect the hair and skin as well as the eyesight since the vitamin is essential for the growth and maintenance of the epithelial layers of the skin. This includes the lining of the gut and respiratory tract, the formation of the enamel layer on teeth, and the growth of hair and nails. When vitamin A is scarce or lacking in the diet the skin tends to become dry and flaky. Oil glands become plugged with keratin and the lining of the respiratory tract loses its layer of fine hair and mucus which protect the lungs from infection. Most of these conditions are reversible if the right foods are introduced into the diet.
My Dear Mama
Dr Lee Wei Ling shares her heart: I know life can be unkind, but I find it difficult to accept my mother's suffering.
Difficult to accept a loved one's suffering. Feeling compassion with a detachment is wise, but tough when it comes to Mama.
But the one who has been hurting the most , and is yet carrying on stoically, is my father.
It is easy when thinking in the abstract, to conclude that being born, growing old, falling sick and eventually dying is what happens to all of us. I accept these facts with no resentment that life is unkind. I have had more than my fair share of bad luck, but I never resented it, for I think suffering built up my resilience.
But I find it difficult to accept my mother's suffering. The Buddhist principle of feeling compassion but with detachment is wise, but it is not an attitude that I find humanly possible to adopt when it comes to Mama. I cannot see her suffering with detachment.
But there is nothing I can do to get her back to where she was before she suffered a massive stroke on May 12, 2008. She has been suffering since then, and so has my father. But that is life, and we all plod on, fulfilling our duties as best we can. Indeed by focusing my mind on my duties, I manage to temporarily block Mama's suffering from my consciousness.
Dr Lee Wei Ling is director of the National Neuroscience Institute, Singapore.
*****************************************************************************
This is why so many heart attacks strike suddenly, unexpectedly, and with no warning. But then again, there were many signs of body dehydration which manifested and wrongly treated with drugs, hence heart attack or stroke was a kind of build-up by our health-care ignorance in reality. If only all of us were told the real underlying cause of inflammation. Read this doctor's experience with rescue a potential stroke victim(http://theinnozablog.blogspot.com/2008/07/dehydration-cause-of-strokes.html ).
The artery don't have to be totally clogged with plaque - all you need in one fragile plaque that burst at the wrong time.
Once doctors and scientists recognized that dehydration leading to inflammation was such a major player in artery disease, they could start looking for markers of inflammation, a chemical indicator that signals the presence of inflammation.
******************************************************************************
Unintentional-Prolonged-Dehydration...
causes stroke. Stroke is one of the many survival mechanism/modes of the human body to cannibalize/recycle it own self due to unintentional-prolonged-dehydration. The percentage of water loss in the blood cells is the least among all other cells in the body and hence blood test/analysis is near impossible. Once stroke happened the limbs cells will be sacrificed , their water-content wise, to be recycled and sent to service the more important organs such as the Brain. The present approach to use invasive and surgeries to remove blood clot in the brain is only temporary, because mainstream medical societies still hold to the old "solid" paradigm in their troubleshooting procedures.
============================================
NEWS: on front page, The Straits Times, Wednesday,June25,2008. Reporter Goh Chin Lian.
1.Mrs.Lee Kuan Yew, 87 years old, (Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew's wife) suffered another stroke (3rd one) while in hospital on 24th June, 2008. It was a massive haemorrhage.
2.She suffered a stroke (2nd one) on May 12,2008 and was taken to National Neuroscience Institute for an urgent brain scan, which revealed bleeding in the right side of the brain.
3.She suffered a stroke (1st one) in 2003 while in London, on a European tour. The bleeding was also in the right side of the brain.
============================================
4.She died on Saturday, 2 October 2010. I was beside her when she passed away at home.
5. My father was admitted at Singapore General Hospital for lung infection.
NOTE: A diet poor in vitamin A will affect the hair and skin as well as the eyesight since the vitamin is essential for the growth and maintenance of the epithelial layers of the skin. This includes the lining of the gut and respiratory tract, the formation of the enamel layer on teeth, and the growth of hair and nails. When vitamin A is scarce or lacking in the diet the skin tends to become dry and flaky. Oil glands become plugged with keratin and the lining of the respiratory tract loses its layer of fine hair and mucus which protect the lungs from infection. Most of these conditions are reversible if the right foods are introduced into the diet.
Saturday, October 2, 2010
Even to you old age
and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you. -says the LORD GOD.
There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting up people.
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.
I have made you and I will carry you;
I will sustain you and I will rescue you. -says the LORD GOD.
There is no better exercise for the heart than reaching down and lifting up people.
The course of human history is determined, not by what happens in the skies, but by what takes place in our hearts.
Friday, October 1, 2010
Love is a great thing, an altogether good gift, ...
SINGAPORE
Farewell to Dr Balaji
Balaji's son draws moving portrait of a romantic family man
'My dad was my hero'
Hundreds of grassroots leaders and residents from Dr Balaji's Cheng San-Seletar ward lined the road outside Cheng San Community Club yesterday afternoon as the cortege left the CC for Mandai Crematorium. Some came in wheelchairs, while some others came pushing prams.
TEARS gave way to smiles on many faces at the funeral of Dr Balaji Sadasivan yesterday, when his son provided a little-known picture of a man who lived life with love and gusto.
But above all, he loved his family, said his son Dharma, 28, in a moving eulogy punctuated with stories that showed his father as a romantic at heart and a big fan of rock 'n' roll music.
He would play songs by Michael Jackson, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Bee Gees when Mr Dharma visited his Gleneagles clinic as a boy.
'My uncle... told me that when they were younger, my dad wanted to be like Jimi Hendrix,' he added with a smile, referring to the iconic guitarist of the 1960s.
His eulogy, coming after three sombre tributes, gave a lift to the solemn hush at Funeral Halls 1 and 2 in Mandai Crematorium.
The halls were filled to the brim with friends, colleagues, grassroots leaders, doctors and family members bidding farewell to the Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who had died of colon cancer on Monday,27Sept2010, at age 55.
Love is a great thing, an altogether good gift, the only thing that makes burdens light and bears all that is hard with ease. Love carries a weight without feeling it, and makes all that is bitter sweet and pleasant to the taste in life. Lead on...with love..is the mother of all principles of leadership.
Farewell to Dr Balaji
Balaji's son draws moving portrait of a romantic family man
'My dad was my hero'
Hundreds of grassroots leaders and residents from Dr Balaji's Cheng San-Seletar ward lined the road outside Cheng San Community Club yesterday afternoon as the cortege left the CC for Mandai Crematorium. Some came in wheelchairs, while some others came pushing prams.
TEARS gave way to smiles on many faces at the funeral of Dr Balaji Sadasivan yesterday, when his son provided a little-known picture of a man who lived life with love and gusto.
But above all, he loved his family, said his son Dharma, 28, in a moving eulogy punctuated with stories that showed his father as a romantic at heart and a big fan of rock 'n' roll music.
He would play songs by Michael Jackson, Creedence Clearwater Revival and the Bee Gees when Mr Dharma visited his Gleneagles clinic as a boy.
'My uncle... told me that when they were younger, my dad wanted to be like Jimi Hendrix,' he added with a smile, referring to the iconic guitarist of the 1960s.
His eulogy, coming after three sombre tributes, gave a lift to the solemn hush at Funeral Halls 1 and 2 in Mandai Crematorium.
The halls were filled to the brim with friends, colleagues, grassroots leaders, doctors and family members bidding farewell to the Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who had died of colon cancer on Monday,27Sept2010, at age 55.
Love is a great thing, an altogether good gift, the only thing that makes burdens light and bears all that is hard with ease. Love carries a weight without feeling it, and makes all that is bitter sweet and pleasant to the taste in life. Lead on...with love..is the mother of all principles of leadership.
RUNX3 gene discovery
Professor Yoshiaki Ito discovers that a malfunction in the RUNX3 gene can lead to the development of gastric and colon cancers.
THE GENE DETECTIVE. Singapore offered Professor Yoshiaki Ito a chance to continue his gene research after he reached retirement age in Japan in 2002.
Prof Ito, then 63, decided to move to the Republic of Singapore. Before the relocation, he was already famed for being one of the discoverers of the RUNX3 "family" of genes in 1993 at Kyoto University.
His team found out that if these genes malfunction, they often cause cancer. What cause malfunction in the first place in those genes?
Professor Ito took his research a step further when he joined the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology.
Building on his earlier findings, he identified the RUNX3 gene as being key in the development in gastric and colon cancers. Understanding this gene could lead to removal of pre-cancerous tissue before it develops further.
For the landmark discovery and his work on gene research, he was awarded the Singapore President's Science Award. The Singapore-President's Science and Technology Awards represent the highest honours conferred on those individuals who have made outstanding contributions.
"We have to continue to study how the gene works. It prevents normal cells from becoming cancer, " said Professor Ito, now 71. " A malfunction in this gene causes cancer and that usually occurs at a very early stage in the development of cancer ... If we can find out when this malfunction occurs, we could remove that pre-cancer tissue before it becomes cancer." Did Dr Balaji'RUNX3 gene malfunctioned?
Professor Ito, who was credited for drawing in researchers from around the world to Singapore, said that Singapore has the edge over Japan when it comes to attracting top-class scientists due to the use of English.
His work in the Oncology Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine helped lay a solid foundation for the establishment of Cancer Science Institute of Singapore.
Professor Ito also played an important role as one of the programme leaders in the Singapore Gastric Cancer Consortium, which was awarded the Translational and Clinical Research Flagship Programme.
THE GENE DETECTIVE. Singapore offered Professor Yoshiaki Ito a chance to continue his gene research after he reached retirement age in Japan in 2002.
Prof Ito, then 63, decided to move to the Republic of Singapore. Before the relocation, he was already famed for being one of the discoverers of the RUNX3 "family" of genes in 1993 at Kyoto University.
His team found out that if these genes malfunction, they often cause cancer. What cause malfunction in the first place in those genes?
Professor Ito took his research a step further when he joined the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology.
Building on his earlier findings, he identified the RUNX3 gene as being key in the development in gastric and colon cancers. Understanding this gene could lead to removal of pre-cancerous tissue before it develops further.
For the landmark discovery and his work on gene research, he was awarded the Singapore President's Science Award. The Singapore-President's Science and Technology Awards represent the highest honours conferred on those individuals who have made outstanding contributions.
"We have to continue to study how the gene works. It prevents normal cells from becoming cancer, " said Professor Ito, now 71. " A malfunction in this gene causes cancer and that usually occurs at a very early stage in the development of cancer ... If we can find out when this malfunction occurs, we could remove that pre-cancer tissue before it becomes cancer." Did Dr Balaji'RUNX3 gene malfunctioned?
Professor Ito, who was credited for drawing in researchers from around the world to Singapore, said that Singapore has the edge over Japan when it comes to attracting top-class scientists due to the use of English.
His work in the Oncology Research Institute in the National University of Singapore, and the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine helped lay a solid foundation for the establishment of Cancer Science Institute of Singapore.
Professor Ito also played an important role as one of the programme leaders in the Singapore Gastric Cancer Consortium, which was awarded the Translational and Clinical Research Flagship Programme.
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