Global Health City of Global Hospitals Group has opened Global Cancer Institute at Chennai. The facility will now offer the most comprehensive organ specific multi-super speciality services to treat a wide variety of cancers in adults and paediatrics.
“We are on a constant quest to bring to our patients the best treatments in the form of clinical expertise and technology. Towards this, we have been continuously investing on the most advanced technologies to augment our cutting-edge clinical expertise. I am personally very delighted that, today we bring to the people of Tamil Nadu, the Global Cancer Institute, equipped with TrueBeam STx. It is now a complete one-stop destination for one of the most advanced organ specific cancer treatments and radiation therapy treatments in the world, said Dr K Ravindranath, chairman & managing director, Global Hospitals Group.
Global Cancer Institute’s team consists of organ specific cancer experts wherein there are super specialists to treat cancers in each of the organs. The services include surgical oncology of head, neck, breast, liver, brain tumour, spinal and gastro intestinal, medical -oncology, onco haematology and bone marrow transplantation, interventional oncology, diagnostic and preventive oncology, palliative care and pain management. There is also a Tumour Board to formulate the best possible evidence-based cancer treatment programme for every patient. The Board constitutes an expert panel of organ specific cancer specialists, who will review each and every case and formulate the best possible treatment programme.
Dr. Sumana Premkumar, sr. consultant, Radiation Oncology, commented that the “TrueBeam STx is an advanced radiation therapy machine engineered to perform the most sophisticated radiation therapy and radio-surgery procedures with pinpoint accuracy and ultra-fine precision. It works by choreographing highly sophisticated system – imaging, beam delivery and motion management – and makes it possible to deliver treatments quickly while monitoring and compensating for tumour motion. It will enable faster, accurate tumour targeting in the treatment of challenging cancers throughout the body, including those in the brain, pancreas, liver to name a few”. Already installed and operational, radiation oncologists at Global Health City are routinely performing complex procedures with amazing precision and patient comfort.
The facility was inaugurated by governor of Tamil Nadu Dr K Rosaiah, in the presence of Mike Nithavrianakis, British deputy high commissioner, Chennai.
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