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With the establishment of a bone bank, Cancer Institute has applied for licence with the Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services, Government of Tamil Nadu to harvest bones from brain-dead donors.

The bank will benefit at least 40 to 50 patients every year at the Cancer Institute, according to Chandra Kumar K, assistant professor (orthopaedic oncology), Department of Surgical Oncology, Cancer Institute. It has been set up with funds from the Rotary Club of Madras Central through the Rotary International Global Grant.

Read more in The Hindu.

The ASCO Post published an article highlighting the stellar career of Dr. V. Shanta and calling her oncology pioneer. The article titled “Oncology Pioneer V. Shanta, MD, Has Long Championed Access to Quality Cancer Care” appeared on January 25, 2019.

In the article Dr. Shanta has recalled her life’s journey starting from early years and how the meeting with Dr. S. Krishnamurthi was the turning point of her life. She also has valuable advice to young oncologists. “The younger generation must ensure that the wonderful technologic advances they have are used not because they are available, but because they add value and are cost-effective.” She also advises them to “Treat patients as individual human beings, not as a disease state. And do so with compassion.”Please checkout this article at the following link. In case the link did not work for you we have downloaded it as a PDF. You can find the PDF in our website at this location.Established in 2010, The ASCO Post, in partnership with the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), communicates news of multidisciplinary cancer care.

The CSR Journal has recognized the cancer screening & prevention efforts of Adayar Cancer Institute. They report the following: “Cancer Institute has covered nearly 2,18,000 households across 260 villages in Tamil Nadu and enabled early detection screening for over 90,820 women and men”.

Dr. Shanta’s vision is to set up a Cancer Screening & Prevention Centers in every district of Tamil Nadu. Cancer Institute Foundation has been raising funds to make this dream a reality. You can learn about this project here. Please donate generously.

You can read the full article published in The CSR Journal here. If the link does not work, we have created a PDF version of the article.

The News Minute interviewed Dr. Shanta about her early life and her thoughts on healthcare today. This interview carries interesting insight into the early life of Dr. Shanta and also some of the rare photos of Dr. Shanta from her early years.

She talks about her family background and how she decided to go to medical school. She also talks about why she decided to pursue oncology. She discusses her initial days at the Cancer Institute. On the present state of medicine she calls out that medicine is no longer a human issue; medicine has become a business, an industry. She expresses concern that service ethos is gone and there is also no political understanding at the top that cancer needs special attention. She concludes the interview with a quip “so much to be done and so little has been done”.

You can read the full interview here. If this link does not work you can read the PDF version of the interview here.

As part of Diamond Jubilee celebrations Cancer Institute in Adayar, Chennai undertook new building infrastructure improvements.

This includes a Diamond Jubilee Building with outpatient cubicles, nuclear medicine facilities, modern blood bank, bone marrow transplant unit, ICU beds, modern operation theaters and post operative beds. Other facilities include Mahavir Ashray Palliative Care Center with quarters for doctors and nurses, a Day Care Center to provide outpatient
treatments like chemo therapy that does not require patients to stay overnight and L&T Illam for Nurses with onsite quarters for nurses.

Cancer Institute Foundation made a significant contribution towards the state of the art operation theater and the day care center. We take this opportunity to thank our donors and sponsors for your generous support.

These facilities were inaugurated on April 12, 2018 by Prime Minister Shri. Narendra Modi. Please check out the news coverage of the inauguration by Thanthi TV. Please also see the video of the facilities.

We are very happy to announce that the first Cancer Screening and Prevention Center is now open in Pudukkottai. Cancer Institute Foundation has fully funded this center and is raising funds for the upcoming centers in Thiruvannamalai and Namakkal. Dr. Shanta’s vision is to open these centers at every district of Tamil Nadu.

The center was opened on Monday, March 26, 2018 with a grand gala ceremony. We are glad that we were able to open the first center in Pudukkottai, the birth place of Dr. Muthulakshmi Reddy. It is a fitting tribute to her contribution in the fight against cancer as the founder of Adayar Cancer Institute.You can read about the news coverage of the opening ceremony in Times of India. If this link does not work you can read the PDF version of the news coverage here. Please also checkout the photos from the event below.

You can learn more about the project here. Please donate generously.