The right test for the right person at the right time can save lives. Dr. Sneha offers personalised screening programmes based on your risk profile, family history, lifestyle and medical background.
Cancer doesn't wait. In its early stages, it rarely makes itself known and by the time most people notice something is wrong, the disease may have already been developing for months or even years. The appropriate response to this reality is not fear, it is action. Regular cancer screening helps detect cancer early, when treatment is often more effective and outcomes are significantly better.
There is nothing to be afraid of when it comes to screening. If the presence of cancer is found at stage one means focused treatment, faster recovery and significantly better outcomes. Once a cancer reaches stage three, things become difficult because the treatment and results required have increased exponentially.
Dr Sneha has built a personalised screening program at Medicover Cancer Institute, HITEC City, Hyderabad, on one core belief the right test for the right person at the right time to save lives.
A screening strategy designed around individual risk factors, family history, lifestyle and long-term health goals.
Most individuals believe that a mammography or blood test is the only way to check for cancer. That is part of it. However, a truly individualized program is much more. They start with knowing yourself, your family history over the past two generations, your lifestyle and your hormonal history.
Dr Sneha creates a strategy based on this image. A personalized plan that tells you what tests you need when you need them and what to watch for between appointments. That is the case for certain patients for whom a mammogram ought to be done at age 35 rather than age 40.
Dr. Sneha creates a screening strategy that tells you what tests you need, when you need them and what to watch for between appointments.
If a mother, sister or daughter who has breast or ovarian cancer, especially when it happened before the age of 50. They are at a different risk than the general population. These genes called BRCA are passed down in these families and can increase lifetime cancer risk by 3 or 4 times. Identifying one of these mutations redefines the entire approach to screening what is tested, how often and when it begins. It can also impact choices made by your sisters and daughters regarding their health.
People with 15 or more years of smoking habit can have a risk for lung cancer, regardless of whether they have symptoms. Since lung cancer is identified before it is too late for surgery and while it is still treatable and curable. Research consistently with low dose CT scanning as a reliable screening tool for those with a significant smoking history. Most of these individuals have not been given the opportunity to take this test.
The first appointment is a consultation, not a test. Dr Sneha is here to review your prior screenings and talk about your risk profile. No pressure, no alarm and no assumption.
Based on the consultation, specific tests are scheduled like mammography, HPV co-testing, Pap test, low dose CT, colonoscopy or CA-125 with transvaginal ultrasound in women with a history of ovarian cancer and PSA screening in men who have a prostate cancer family history or a tumor detection panel as required. Every test is designed to serve a specific purpose according to your plan of action.
Genetic testing can transform the screening discussion for patients with a significant family history particularly where several relatives have been diagnosed with the same cancer type, especially at a younger age. Carrying a BRCA mutation, Lynch syndrome gene or any other inherited cancer marker does not decide your cancer outcome. What it does mean is that the screening plan becomes more focused, more frequent and more protective.
There is a greater than 95% survival rate for stage one breast cancer. Stage four breast cancer has a less than 30% survival rate. Those numbers are not a coincidence but are actually due to the timing of the cancer's discovery. Smaller tumors, less aggressive treatment, treatment tolerance, quicker recovery and better results are all associated with early identification.
Screening does not assure totally perfect results. But it improves your chances considerably. It provides information at a time when it can still shape what comes next. This is what Dr Sneha offers at Medicover Cancer Institute, a personalised cancer screening programme that is not a guarantee but a significantly greater chance.
Get screened when you have a family history of cancer, more than 35 have smoked in the past or have any other symptoms that might be alarming enough to require a cancer screening.
They are not the same thing. Even though a routine checkup will measure basic factors like blood pressure and cholesterol. It usually might not identify early signs of cancer. Cancer screening programmes are highly personalized and include cancer specific diagnostic tools depending on your risk profile.
The general recommendation for breast cancer screening in India is age 40. However, if a close female relative mother, sister or daughter developed breast cancer before 50, your screening should begin earlier.
Radiation exposure and anxiety from abnormal results are real considerations. Dr Sneha factors them into every recommendation, no test is suggested unless the benefit of early detection genuinely outweighs the risk of the test itself.
Make your appointments either by booking online or by connecting us on WhatsApp. Dr Sneha is available on Mondays - Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Do bring your earlier health records with you.