NIMS gets new equipment for cancer treatment

By Our Special Correspondent

HYDERABAD, SEPT. 11. The Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) has acquired a CT simulation and three-dimensional treatment planning system for its Department of Radiation Oncology.

Purchased at a cost of Rs. 80 lakhs, this state-of-art system will facilitate better localisation of a tumour, accurate treatment planning and verification and, finally, a better cure rate of tumour. The Health Minister, Dr. S. Aruna, will inaugurate these machines on September 12.

Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, the NIMS Director, Prof. Kakarla Subba Rao, and the Head of Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr. Ratnam V. Sunkavalli, said the new CT would provide a 3-D picture. It would vastly help plan the treatment of tumours.

They said the aim of radiotherapy in the treatment of cancer was to deliver a precisely measured dose of radiation to a defined tumour volume with minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue. CT simulation would allow accurate definition of tumour volume and three-D treatment planning to optimise dose distribution.

Dr. Subba Rao said the NIMS would conduct scanning for white card holders free of cost and charge an amount of Rs. 1500 from others, while the treatment would cost Rs. 220 a day. The eight- year-old oncology wing of the NIMS has about 100 beds and over 100 patients turn up daily for check-up.

PG programme

Meanwhile, the NIMS announced its post-graduate programme for the year 2002. The notification for MD/MS/DMRD/DM/Mch in various specialities will be issued on September 15.

The last date for sale and submission of applications is October 10 and the date for entrance examination at Osmania Medical College is November 11. Counselling will be held at the NIMS on November 28, while the courses will commence on January 1, 2002. Further details can be had from the Academic Section on telephone number 3320332 ext. 351/159.

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