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Institute Rotary Cancer
Hospital (DR. B.R.A. Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital) started functioning
in 1983-84 on 35 beds with infrastructure of 2 floors. Recently it has
been converted into a 200 bedded, 7th floor building. Prime
Minister of India Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, inaugurated this centre on
October 5, 2003.
Best of radiodiagnostic
and radiotherapy machines including state of art linear accelerator,
brachytherapy, stereotactic radiotherapy and intensity modulated
radiotherapy are available at this centre. Vaccum assisted advanced
mammography unit, first of its kind in India, has made stereotactic
breast biopsy possible. Prostate cancer can be diagnosed at an early
stage with help of tranrectal sextant biopsy. Radio frequency ablation
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DR. B.R.A. Institute
Rotary Cancer Hospital is one of the few centres in the country to have
established hematopoietic stem cell bone marrow transplant programme;
more than 250 transplants have been performed. In collaboration with
dept. of CTVS, stem cell transplant programme has been extended to treat
myocardial ischemia also.
Medical Oncology has
established modern techniques utilizing FISH and polymerase chain
reaction (PCR) to prognosticate cancer patients. Also, innovative
research by this department has demonstrated the liberation of
hematopoietic cytokines from fetal liver, with the potential to treat
aplastic anemia. This department has
researched into our ancient wisdom also and has discovered that
combination of yoga, pranayam, meditation and sudershan kriya-a rhythmic
breating process induces positive changes in brain. These processes
enhance antioxidant defence and immune functions of body, and thus may
prevent onset and/or progression of cancer.
Preventive oncology
programme to bring awareness about cancer masses has been initiated,
also screening programme to detect cancer early, over 10,000 people have
been screened so far.
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