Cancer hospital unveiled in Salt Lake

Salt Lake: A hospital for the detection and treatment of blood cancer opened in Salt Lake on Friday, adding limited facilities for cancer treatment in the city and prompting doctors to ask

Parkview Super Special Hospital, which spans nine floors and has 70 beds, can treat people with blood cancers such as leukemia and lymphoma and has facilities for bone marrow transplantation bone.

It also has facilities for the treatment of other blood disorders such as hemophilia, characterized by unusual thinning of the blood, and thrombosis, in which the blood coagulates in the veins, sometimes with fatal consequences.

are surgical oncology, orthopedics and urology.

"Our hospital has a specialized laboratory to detect blood disorders, including cancer.The results of bone marrow confirmation test within 30 minutes, so that we can start treatment early" , said hemato-oncologist Shilpa Bhartia, who heads the hospital's cancer wing

.About 80,000 cases are detected each year. "About 10% of new patients – 8,000 – suffer from a blood cancer.

"There are very few centers offering complete treatment of blood cancer – from detection to chemotherapy by the way by the bone marrow transplant. Oncologist Gautam Mukhopadhyay

The waiting period for cancer treatment in private and government hospitals extends over several months.

A senior Tata Medical Center official said he had to turn down 40% of patients who come for radiation every day. the waiting time for some surgeries is two to three months

. At the Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, the waiting time for radiation therapy is one month. "Exceptions are made sometimes: patients who progress very quickly have priority, while people with slow-growing cancers, such as prostate cancer, have to wait …. The situation is not clear. not ideal, "CNCI director Tapas Maji said.