Cyclotron Project for Cancer Diagnosis
October, 2010
Kailash Cancer Hospital has been a pioneer in providing state-of-the-art cancer treatment since 2001. Now it is taking a giant step to improve it even more.
Earlier this year, the hosptial started nuclear medicine department. In nuclear medicinne the patient is injected with glucose impregnated with a radio-active chemical called radio-nuclide. Carcinogenic cells absorb glucose more readilly than the healthy cells, thus giving away their location when viewed under a PET scanner.
The radionuclides are made in a Cyclotron and there are only a handful of such devices in India. Ashram has made an agreement with an international company called IBA to build a cyclotron facility at the Ashram. Ashram has promised to provide the land and the building and in return the ashram would get the radionuclides essentially free. We have already designated a plot of land behind the hospital for the cyclotron project. The building's constuction begins this month. The special purpose building is expected to cost Rs. 1.5 crores or $340K. We need to urgently raise these funds. We need help and support of Ashram's well wishers from across the world.
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