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This new pill will reduce the side effects of cancer treatment like chemotherapy by about 50 per cent and the chances of getting cancer for a second time by 30 per cent

Tata Memorial Centre aims to double share in cancer treatment by 2030

Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) is aiming to double its share of cancer patients it serves per year to 20 per cent of the total number of such patients in the country by 2030 from the present 10 per cent, its director Rajendra Badwe said on Friday. Currently, the centre provides treatment to 10 per cent of the country's total cancer patients per year. The premier cancer treatment and research institute, backed by Tata Group and the government, is expanding facilities and educational capabilities to train the manpower, which will be required to achieve the target, Badwe told reporters here. "Presently, India has about 13 lakh cancer patients every year, 10 per cent of those are treated at Tata Hospital. We would like that to be doubled to somewhere about 20 per cent of the total national problem," the director said, adding that the aim to double is being sought to be achieved by the end of the decade. He said the hospital feels there will be a huge increase in the total number of patient

ICICI Bank will give Rs 1,200 cr to build 3 Tata Memorial Centre for cancer

ICICI Bank on Friday committed Rs 1,200 crore to help Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) to expand its cancer treating facilities. As part of the commitment from ICICI Foundation, three new facilities will be built in Navi Mumbai's Kharghar on the outskirts of the financial capital, Mullanpur in Punjab and Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh. Girish Chandra Chaturvedi, the chairman of the second largest private sector lender, said the three facilities will be fully functional by 2027 and will enable TMC to handle 25,000 more cancer patients per year. "This is a step towards resolving a problem which we are foreseeing to aggravate, especially as urbanisation increases," he told reporters at TMC's flagship hospital here after signing three Memorandums of Understanding for the centre. Chaturvedi said right now, the bank has Rs 500 crore of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) corpus ready for the three facilities, and will be adding to the corpus as the years go. The bank feels by the end of th

Goa govt plans to build cancer institute, holds talks with Tata Memorial

The Goa government plans to build a cancer institute in the state so that its residents won't need to travel to other places for treatment, even as it will start a dedicated cancer outpatient department at Goa Medical College from next month, said health minister Vishwajit Rane. The minister on Thursday met officials from Mumbai-based Tata Memorial Hospital in Panaji to discuss ways to set up a facility to treat cancer patients in the state. With rising cancer cases in the state of Goa, we are working unabatedly to build a State Cancer Institute' so that citizens of Goa do not have to travel outside the state to seek treatment, he tweeted after the meeting. In another tweet, he said, Tata Memorial Hospital provides world-class cancer treatment services and facilities. We intend to have a tripartite agreement between the Government of India, the Government of Goa and Tata Memorial Hospital, similar to the Assam model envisioned by Hon PM Shri @narendramodi. Rane said Tata Memorial .

Tata hospital's simple intervention gives hope to breast cancer patients

Spearheaded by Badwe, the study was conducted on 1,600 women planning to undergo early breast cancer surgery at 11 cancer centres in India, including TMC, over 11 years from 2011-2022, said Gupta

Tata Memorial Centre inks MoU to improve cancer care in Indonesia

Such a Cancer Patient Navigator (CPN) does not exist in Indonesia at present, and the MoU signed on Thursday is of significance in this context

Maharashtra CM stays transfer of 100 MHADA flats to Tata cancer hospital

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray has stayed the transfer of 100 MHADA flats to the Tata Memorial Hospital for providing temporary accommodation to cancer patients

BS Social Excellence Awards 2019: Jury picks top three in social sector

L&T Finance Holdings was picked out for the scale and gender-inclusive work of its digital literacy initiative in rural India, Digital Sakhi

27 regional hubs, 300 hospitals, yet patients go to 1 Mumbai cancer centre

India does not have enough oncologists, and those available are concentrated in about eight cities