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Trichy: Insisting on the need to wake up to life-threatening cancers, Indo German Endoscopy Laparoscopic Society (IGELS) demonstrated live laparoscopic surgery on a cervical cancer patient in Trichy and telecast it to doctors in Sharjah University, here on Friday.The objective of the live surgery was to drive home the message that a complicated surgery had now become easier with the advent of laparoscopic surgery for cancer. IGELS consists of surgeons from Trichy and University of Freiburg in Germany. Now it is being done through laparoscopy as minimally invasive surgery. Though the rate of incidence of such cancers remains one in hundred approximately in cities like Trichy, timely diagnosis could bring out the real situation. “It was done as open surgery earlier..