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Advanced Training Workshop on Image Guided Stereotactic Radiosurgery at Yashoda

Yashoda Cancer Institute (YCI), Somajiguda has conducted its second advanced training workshop on Rapid Arc-based Image Guided Stereotactic Radiosurgery or Intensity Modulated Radio Surgery (IMRS).

Dr GS Rao, Managing Director of Yashoda Group of Hospitals inaugurated this advanced training workshop. "YCI is not only determined to give advanced treatment to its patients, but also constantly striving to train oncologists all over the country, who have no training facilities or are working in less advanced setups. The workshop was attended by more than 60 oncologists from all over the country and was primarily aimed at training them on high precision radio therapy.

YCI has already treated more than 300 patients with RapidArc technology. The hospital has recently acquired advanced software for image guided and IMRS. This technology is available in very few centers in the world, thereby making it immensely beneficial to the patients.

"With predicted cancer incidence expected to be doubled by year 2020, the impact of the shortfall of high-end radiation therapy technology is huge as more than 75 per cent of all patients with cancer require radiation. Also for several early solid cancers, radiation therapy gives equivalent survival and cure rates compared to surgery," said Dr Srinivas Chilukuri, oncologist and Course Co-ordinator.

The radio surgery is completely non-invasive, painless and does not require anaesthesia or hospitalisation. It's a day care procedure. With RapidArc, the same can be achieved rapidly compared to other kinds of radiation therapy.

EH News Bureau