Global Health City, Chennai Introduces Unique Multi-Super Specialty 'Organ Specific Cancer Care'

CHENNAI, July 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Cancer Institute Inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. K. Rosaiah, Honorable Governor of Tamil Nadu

- Global Cancer Institute Brings Most Comprehensive Multi-Super Specialty Organ Specific Cancer Program With a Large Team of Organ Specific Super Specialists

- Global Hospitals Group Further Consolidates its Position at the Forefront of Cancer Treatment in India With the Launch of Global Cancer Institute at Global Health City

- World's Most Advanced Radiation Therapy Machine - TrueBeam STx With Tamil Nadu's 1st Complete Radio Surgery Application Commissioned at Global Health City, Pioneering a Radical New Approach With Radiation Treatment Options for Even the Most Difficult to Treat Cancers

As a landmark development for cancer patients, Global Hospitals Group at its Chennai hospital, Global Health City, today announced the launch of the Global Cancer Institute. The Global Cancer Institute was inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. K. Rosaiah, Honorable Governor of Tamil Nadu in the presence of Shri. Mike Nithavrianakis, His Excellency, British Deputy High Commissioner, Chennai and Dr. K. Ravindranath, Chairman & Managing Director, Global Hospitals Group.

Speaking on the occasion, Dr. K. Ravindranath, Chairman & Managing Director, Global Hospitals Group said, "At Global Hospitals, we are on a constant quest to bring to our patients the best treatments in the form of clinical expertise and technology. Towards this, we have been continuously investing on the most advanced technologies to augment our cutting edge clinical expertise. I am personally very delighted that, today we bring to the people of Tamil Nadu, the Global Cancer Institute, equipped with TrueBeam STx. Global Cancer Institute at Global Health City, is unique in every way as we will deliver the most comprehensive "ORGAN SPECIFIC" multi-super specialty services to treat a wide variety of cancers in adults & paediatrics. GlobalHealth City is now a complete "one-stop" destination for one of the most advanced Organ Specific Cancer treatments and radiation therapy treatment in the world."

Global Cancer Institute's team consists of organ specific cancer experts wherein there are super specialists to treat cancers in each of the organs. The services include:

- Surgical Oncology

• Head & Neck Cancer
• Breast Cancer, Liver Cancer
• Brain Tumours, Spinal Tumours
• Gastro-Intestinal Cancer
• Gynaec Cancer, Genito-Urinary
• Cancer, Orthopaedic Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Onco-Plastic & Reconstructive surgeries

- Medical Oncology, Onco-Haematology & Bone Marrow Transplantation

- Interventional Oncology

- Palliative Care & Pain Medicine

- Diagnostic & Preventive Oncology

- Tumour Board: To formulate the best possible evidence-based cancer treatment program for every cancer patient

Patients diagnosed with cancer can now look forward to the best possible quality of life, by being treated with the finest combination of clinical expertise, state of the art technology in a world class multi-super speciality tertiary care hospital. Global Cancer Institute also introduces a Multi-Disciplinary Tumor Board, adapting the internationally recognized practice of ensuring the best possible treatment for every patient. The Board constitutes an expert panel of organ specific cancer specialists, who will review each and every case and formulate the best possible treatment program.

Global Hospitals Group now boasts of being the only tertiary healthcare chain in the country with the world's most advanced radiation therapy machines installed at two of its hospitals, one in Bengaluru, which was Asia Pacific's first and now in Chennai. The TrueBeam STx radiation therapy machine commissioned at Global Health City is the first in Tamil Nadu with complete radio surgery application. Dr. Sumana Premkumar, Sr. Consultant, Radiation Oncology, Global Health City commented, "The TrueBeam STx is an advanced radiation therapy machine engineered to perform the most sophisticated radiation therapy and radio-surgery procedures with pinpoint accuracy and ultra-fine precision. It works by choreographing highly sophisticated system-imaging, beam delivery and motion management-and makes it possible to deliver treatments quickly while monitoring and compensating for tumor motion. It will enable faster, accurate tumor targeting in the treatment of challenging cancers throughout the body, including those in the brain, pancreas, liver to name a few." Already installed and operational, radiation oncologists at Global Health City are routinely performing complex procedures with amazing precision and patient comfort.

Advantages of TrueBeam STx for Cancer Patients Requiring Radiation Therapy:

- Versatility - Customized treatment and All in One Capability

- Fast, Precise Treatments

- Fast Imaging at Lower Doses reducing X-Ray exposure by 25%

- Treating Tumors That Move with Gated RapidArc

- Improves the Patient Experience.

About Global Health City:

Global Health City, Chennai is a 500-bedded super specialty tertiary care facility. It renders a 360-degree advanced tertiary healthcare services with multi-super speciality and multi-organ transplant services. With the finest combination of expertise, experience, state-of-the art technology and well coordinated team work, every step is aimed at ensuring excellence in patient care.

The Global Hospitals Group started with its first hospital a decade ago in Hyderabad. Today, it has nine hospitals with over 2000 beds, strategically spread across the country with branches now in Bangalore, Chennai and Mumbai. Each unit is a world class tertiary care multi super specialty Hospital with facilities matching the best in the world and offering advanced patient care of international standards. For more information, visit www.globalhospitalsindia.com

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