Early Times Report
Jammu, May 6: Dr (Brig) Man Mohan Harjai, Chief Administrative Officer of SMVD Narayana Superspeciality Hospital stated that on inaugural day, 12 PET CT scans were done for different cancer patients including, Cancer of Breast, Larynx (Voice Box), Hodgkin's lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Anal canal, Cervix (part of Uterus), stomach etc. In one of the cases of carcinoma (a tumour made up of cancer cells) rectum, the PET CT detected liver lesions that a conventional CT did not pick up earlier.
The PET CT Scan Machine was inaugurated by Governor N.N Vohra and Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, Founder of NH on 25th April 2018 at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Super speciality Hospital, Kakryal.
"A soft tissue lesion was also detected in left breast consistent with synchronous malignancy, in the same patient.
The synchronous malignancy is two or more histologically distinct malignancies arising in the same site, following each other in sequence by less than 2 months", said and added that in another case of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (a cancer that starts in the lymphocytes, which are part of the immune system) who reported for initial staging, the bone marrow lesions were detected on PET CT, indicative of advanced stage of the disease, suggesting avoidable bone marrow biopsy and thus evading an un-necessary procedure on the patient.
Brig Harjai added that with the help of PET-CT some painful procedures can be avoided as it is now replacing biopsies to rule out bone marrow involvement in lymphomas, as in one of the cases mentioned earlier. |
