Mysore/Mysuru: Doctors at Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Mysuru, Dr. K.R. Suhas, Dr. M.B. Suman and their team, have performed Extra-Corporeal Radiotherapy on a nine-year-old girl to save her from bone cancer. The successful completion of the treatment has made Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, the first hospital in the city to have performed this therapy.
The girl came to the Hospital with complaints of pain and swelling in the right leg for more than a month. On detailed examination through x-ray and needle biopsy, it was identified that the girl was suffering from Ewing’s sarcoma of the right tibia, which is a very rare type of cancer that affects the bone. Initially, the patient was put on neoadjuvant chemotherapy. As chemotherapy was not a permanent solution, the doctors suggested removal of the cancerous tumor through Extra-Corporeal Radiotherapy. In this procedure, the affected bone is removed, subjected to radiation in a sterile manner and once the cancerous cells are destroyed, the same bone is placed back in its position.
