Sep-Oct 2016 Issue | Business View Oceania

66 Business View Oceania - September/October 2016 Strides in gastroenterology Aside from research, the clinic is also involved in the treatment of a large variety of gastroenterological diseas- es and they also perform a number of procedures. These include colon can- cer screenings, colonoscopies, panen- doscopies, oesophageal dilatation, in- frared coagulation, the eradication of H.pylori, and treatments for Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis, coeliac dis- ease, and a lot more. Unlike many similar institutions, however, the CDD does not always rely on convention- al treatments. An example of that is Helicobacter pylori. Whereas first-line treatments are common in the indus- try, they are not always successful and alternatives are often scarce inef- fective. However, the CDD has devel- oped a second-line and third line treat- ments with success rates greater than 96 percent, confirmed with published data. According to Prof Borody, gastroen- terology is one of the fields of medi- cine which has benefitted the most from advancements in technology. “In the gastroenterology industry, the technology has exploded. One of the reasons why I did gastroenterology was because I could see that, within a few years, we could easily see inside peo- ple’s stomachs, bowels, and so forth. The equipment started with the use of fibre optic technology, where very fine glass fibres were used to see distant