Six months after launch, three paediatric oncology patients to get treatment at Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar
Hindustan TimesMumbai: Six months after its launch, the country’s first public sector proton therapy unit at Tata Memorial Centre’s Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer at Kharghar is all set to treat the first three paediatric oncology patients this week. HT Image Dr Siddhartha Laskar, professor of radiation oncology, TMC who is overseeing the proton therapy, said, “We have lined up two paediatric cancer patients out of which, we will start the treatment for the first this week and the second next week. Once all the three rooms are operational, the number of cancer patients undergoing proton therapy will also increase,” said Dr Laskar. The Tata Memorial Centre’s paediatric department, which has been seeing a rising number of paediatric cancer cases, said proton therapy would be an effective treatment for many childhood cancers, including brain tumours, and cancers that grow in connective tissue.
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