Pediatric oncologists from Hyderabad-based American Oncology Institute (AOI) have successfully conducted a Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) on a 12-months-old boy who was diagnosed with Griscelli Syndrome (GS), a rare genetic disorder.
Dr Rama Devi was diagnosed with a high risk blood cancer known as acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and was successfully treated by Dr. Ganesh Jaishetwar, bone marrow transplant surgeon
Need to step up the number of oncologists from the current level of 1,250 radiographers and other allied specialties and up-skill physicians and nurses working in district hospitals and PHCs, said Former Union Secretary for Health K Sujatha Rao