New IndPress

Mangalore, Aug 16: In a major expansion, the Father Muller Medical College Hospital is going for a cancer hospital with all facilities with state-of-the-art cancer care including radiation, chemotherapy, oncology home care etc.

This cancer centre will start functioning from March 13, 2007 on the occasion of the Institution Day and Graduation Ceremony.

The hospital has placed order with Varian Medical System (USA) for the turnkey project. It includes state-of-the-art facilities like linear accelerator with multi-leaf collimator, on line portal imaging (continuous image acquisition during treatment), 2 D and 3 DCT based conformal radiation planning including image fusion.

The most advanced modality of cancer treatment, ie, Intensity Moderated Radiation Therapy will be provided at the centre. Director Dr Baptist Menezes informed that at Father Muller Medical College Hospital, 50-60 new cases of cancer are being diagnosed every month and there is need for a cancer hospital with all facilities provided under one roof.

Department of Oncology chief Dr Suresh Rao said as the equipments are highly sophisticated and computer-based technical person dealing with the system will be those trained adequately in Europe and USA so that patients will get quality care.