DEPARTMENT OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY

About

The Department of Radiation Oncology initially started with a Theratron 780c Cobalt Teletherapy machine which was inherited from the erstwhile railway cancer hospital in August 2018. The department presently comprises of 10 Radiation Oncology faculty, 7 Senior residents, 7 Medical Physicists and 18 technological officers with other support staff. The department has been upgraded with installation of 3 linear accelerators (Truebeams with capability for higher technique treatments such as IMRT, Rapid Arc, IGRT, Large field treatment and SBRT/SRT), a CT Simulator, Indigenous Cobalt Teletherapy machine and Brachytherapy.

• The Brachytherapy operation theatre has started functioning since July 2020.
• The Department of Radiation Oncology has treated 3827 new patients in the year 2022.
• The footfalls in Radiation Oncology OPD were approximately 16,000 in 2022.
• MD Radiation Oncology course started in February 2022 with intake of 4 students.

The services provided by the department include:

1. High precision 3D-CRT, IMRT, IGRT, Rapid Arc teletherapy and Electron beam therapy with FFF linear accelerator TrueBeam Version 2.7 and ECLIPSE version 15.6
2. Frameless SRT / SBRT teletherapy.
3. CT-simulation with 32 slice CT.
4. Brachytherapy including: intra-cavitary, intra-luminal, interstitial & mould therapy using an Elekta Flexitron Cobalt-60 brachytherapy unit.
5. Both day care & inpatient facilities.
6. Large field irradiations.

Research & Educational Activities:

The department supports research and educational activities for the development and growth of employees.

Education

• MD Radiation Oncology

Research

• Ongoing Projects: 37
• National Publications: 02
• International Publications: 11
• Book Chapters: 02 Books and 02 Chapters in other books.

Achievements:

1. Dr. Sambit Swarup Nanda was awarded Gold Medal In Best paper category in UPAROICON 2022, Bareilly, UP.
2. Mr. D Epili secured 1st position in the College of Medical Physics of India (CMPI) Examinations-2022 (Kingston Medical Physics Award of Excellence).
3. Mr. Vinay Saini secured 2nd position in the College of Medical Physics of India (CMPI) Examinations-2022 (Kingston Medical Physics Award of Excellence).

Conferences Teaching Programs:

1. 43rd ICRO sun PG Teaching Course - 6th & 7th May 2023.
2. 13th IBSCON 2023 - 4th to 6th August 2023 Annual Conference of Indian Brachytherapy Society.