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Modern equipment to be brought with the money Medical college Principal has to submit proposal Kozhikode: The Union Health Ministry has promised Rs.3 crore for buying equipment for the Oncology Department of the Government Medical College here if it fulfilled the National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP) guidelines, M.K. Raghavan, MP, has said. In a fax message here on Sunday, Mr. Raghavan said Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad had written to him as he had requested Rs.4.5 crore for buying equipment such as the SPECT gamma camera used in cancer detection and treatment. To receive the fund, Mr. Raghavan said, the Principal of the medical college should submit a proposal to the Ministry, through the State government, in the prescribed format. Mr. Raghavan said the equipment that could be bought with the fund could bring in a major change in cancer detection and treatment at the medical college. CurableK.V. Gangadharan, consultant medical oncologist at Baby Memorial Hospital here, has said that 80 per cent of cancerous tumours are curable if diagnosed early and the patients undergo the full treatment protocol. He was speaking at a continuing medical education workshop on breast, ovarian and colorectal cancer at the hospital. “The complete treatment modality involves surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and targeted therapy. With the improvements in cancer treatment that were discussed in the workshop, especially with targeted therapy, we are now able to rationalise the use of radiotherapy and chemotherapy in removing tumours with minimal cell and tissue damage,” Dr. Gangadharan, convener of the meet, said.
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