{"entity":{"id":"shastri-surendra","kind":"person","name":"Surendra Shastri","aka":[],"tldr":"Led the Mumbai trial showing that visual inspection with acetic acid by health workers cuts cervical cancer deaths.","summary":"Surendra Shastri is a preventive oncologist and former Head of Preventive Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital, part of the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai. He ran the cluster-randomised trial of visual inspection with acetic acid screening delivered by primary health workers in Mumbai slums, which showed that this approach cuts cervical cancer deaths and informed screening policy across low-resource settings. His publications include the Mumbai randomised controlled study of VIA screening by primary health workers. His interests span cervical, breast and oral cancer screening, HPV testing and self-sampling, and community trials.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Tata Memorial Centre","url":"https://tmc.gov.in"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Shastri%20SS%5BAuthor%5D%20visual%20inspection%20acetic%20acid%20cervical"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["cervical"],"sections":[],"technologies":["hpv-testing","colposcopy-excision"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["tata-memorial"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Preventive oncologist; former Head, Preventive Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital","institutionId":"tata-memorial","specialisms":["Cervical cancer screening","Visual inspection with acetic acid","Breast and oral cancer screening","Community trials"],"profiles":[{"label":"Tata Memorial Centre","url":"https://tmc.gov.in"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Shastri%20SS%5BAuthor%5D%20visual%20inspection%20acetic%20acid%20cervical"}],"papers":[{"title":"Effect of VIA screening by primary health workers: randomized controlled study in Mumbai, India","journal":"Journal of the National Cancer Institute","year":2014,"doi":"10.1093/jnci/dju009"},{"title":"HPV screening for cervical cancer in rural India (Osmanabad)","journal":"New England Journal of Medicine","year":2009,"url":"https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa0808516","doi":"10.1056/NEJMoa0808516"}]},"route":"/people/shastri-surendra/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"cervical","kind":"cancer","name":"Cervical cancer","route":"/cancers/cervical/"}],"technology":[{"id":"colposcopy-excision","kind":"technology","name":"Colposcopy and excisional treatment (LEEP/LLETZ, cone)","route":"/technologies/colposcopy-excision/"},{"id":"hpv-testing","kind":"technology","name":"HPV DNA testing and self-sampling","route":"/technologies/hpv-testing/"}],"institution":[{"id":"tata-memorial","kind":"institution","name":"Tata Memorial Centre","route":"/institutions/tata-memorial/"}],"trial":[{"id":"mumbai-via-screening","kind":"trial","name":"Mumbai VIA cervical screening trial (Tata Memorial)","route":"/trials/mumbai-via-screening/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-sankaranarayanan-hpv-screening-nejm-2009","kind":"paper","name":"HPV screening for cervical cancer in rural India (Osmanabad)","route":"/key-papers/paper-sankaranarayanan-hpv-screening-nejm-2009/"}]}}