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particularly in low- and medium-resourced countries. Professor You-Lin Qiao is Director of the Department of
Cancer Epidemiology at the Cancer Institute/Hospital of the
Dr Ramadas is trained in radiotherapy and clinical oncology Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical
and is currently Additional Professor of Radiation Oncology and College, Beijing, China and Deputy Director of the National
Medical Superintendent, at the Regional Cancer Centre, Expert Committee for Cancer Screening and Prevention in
Trivandrum, India. He has a keen interest cancer prevention, China. He coordinates a large number of breast and cervical
early detection and control and co-ordinates large population cancer early detection studies in China and has contributed to
based breast and oral cancer screening trials in Kerala, India the development of validation of rapid, accurate and affordable
and several hospital-based phase II and phase III randomized HPV tests for early detection of cervical neoplasia. His research
clinical trials evaluating new therapeutic interventions in head efforts have led to the rolling out of large population-based
and neck and upper aero-digestive cancers. breast and cervical screening programmes in China.
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