Mangalore: Live Surgical Workshop Conducted in City
from Divvy Kant Upadhyay
for Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (GA)
Mangalore, Oct, 25: A pre-conference live surgical workshop was conducted at the Kasturba Medical College, here associated with the 7th National Conference of the Foundation for Head and Neck Oncology (FHNO). Some of the best brains in the field of ENT, Head and Neck Surgery from all across the country and abroad are attending this conference from October 26 to 28 at the TMA Pai International Convention Centre.
The highlight of the workshop was the live demonstration of the laser guided laryngectomy which was something novel and encouraging for the surgeons gathered for the conference. At present this surgery is done in only a few select medical institutes in India. This surgery was demonstrated by eminent ENT , head and Neck Surgeon from Germany, Dr Wolfgang Steiner. Apart from being the chairman and Head of the ENT Department of the University of Goettingen in Germany for more than 21 years, Dr Steiner has done ground breaking work in the field of laser microsurgery with special regard to cancer of the upper aerodigestive tract.
Dr Kishore Chandra Prasad the organizing secretary of the conference and the head of department of ENT, head and neck surgery of the Kasturba Medical College demonstrated Radical Neck Dissection Surgery by an advanced technique using the Harmonic Scalpel. Dr Kishore is considered the pioneer in using this advanced technique in India. A thyroidectomy surgery was demonstrated by Nagpur Surgeon Dr Madan Kapre, the National Secretary of FHNO.
Other senior and eminent participants included Dr Ashok Shenoy from Kidwai Institute, Bangalore, Prof Richard Hayden from Mayo Clinic, USA and dynamic Dr Van den Brekel from Holland.
A statement issued by the organizers states that Oncology today has reached a new level of understanding with advanced diagnostic and therapeutic modalities. Diagnostic tools are being refined constantly and surgical techniques are being developed aimed at organ preservation, less mutilation and better rehabilitation. The head and neck cancers being the 6 th most common cancers affecting the human body, stress the need to fight these cancers at new higher planes, especially so in India where these cancers are dominating due to widespread and uncontrolled tobacco abuse.