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Manipal : Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre (MCCCC) of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal Celebrated its first Anniversary on 24th October 2019 at Dr T M A Pai Auditorium. The Shirdi Sai Baba Cancer Hospital and Research Institute of Kasturba Hospital, Manipal was started 28 years back as second Cancer care centre of Karnataka and reintroduced as Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre in last year.

The Manipal Comprehensive Cancer Care Centre has departments of Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Paediatric Oncology, Nuclear Medicine and Palliative Medicine along with ancillary services like Onco-Pathology, Onco-Radiology, Psycho-Oncology, Community Oncology and Onco-Rehab. It also has 10 site specific tumour boards that facilitate comprehensive and accurate cancer decision making and treatment

Dr Shailesh Shrikande, Deputy Director, TATA Memorial Hospital Mumbai was the Chief Guest of the function. Mrs Vasanti R Pai - Trustee-MAHE Trust, Dr Vinod Bhat - Vice Chancellor, Dr Poornima Baliga B and Dr PLNG Rao Pro Vice Chancellor, MAHE Manipal were the Guests of honour of the program. Dr H S Ballal - Pro chancellor, presided over the function. Dr Sharath Kumar Rao, Dean KMC and Dr Avinash Shetty, Medical Superintendent, Kasturba Hospital, Manipal and Dr Naveen B Salins Prof and Head Palliative Medicine were present.

On this Occasion Dr Shailesh Shrikande said, “this is the challenge for the country to diagnose the cancer from 130 cr population, lot of efforts is required, Manipal is the institute doing tremendous job in this regard. Very few countries has different specialisation for cancer diagnose and treatment.” “I compliment the team Manipal for does tremendous job with the help of tumour board in last one year. With the help of tumour board this is possible to give multi-disciplinary care he added”.

Mrs Vasanti R Pai launched “All Women Cancer care Team” and said, “Women is the backbone for the any house, but she never gave priority to her health. At least she should go for breast screening and genital related screening once in a year”.

Dr H S Ballal, distributed the prizes for the winner of the event “Hacking Cancer” conducted as a part of anniversary celebration MCCCC and said, “There are many diagnosis and treatment facility and option available compare to olden days but the concern is people not utilising the facility”. With this MCCCC we are providing quality of life care through Palliative care Medicine”.

After launching of Manipal Oncology Data Evaluation and Management System MODEMS, Dr Vinod Bhat said, “incidence of cancer increased and bad thing is prevalence is more in younger generation, early detection is the only solution for this. And eagerly awaiting to hear that a patient who is diagnosed to have cancer is declared free from cancer, very soon.

On the Occasion Dr Poornima Baliga congratulate the team Oncologist for doing great work.

Dr PLNG Rao congratulated the work of MCCCC in the last one year.

Dr Naveen B Salins, spoke about journey of MCCCC for last one year. Dr Sharath Rao welcomed the gathering and Dr Avinash Shetty proposed vote of thanks. Dr Priyanka Augustine was the MC for the program.