Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH)

Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH) started functioning in 1983-84 on 35 beds with an infrastructure of 2 floors. Recently it has been converted into a 200 bedded, 7th floor building. Prime Minister of India Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, inaugurated this centre on October 5, 2003. This center has the best of radiodiagnostic and radiotherapy machines including state of art linear accelerator, brachytherapy, stereotactic radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiotherapy, It runs preventive oncology programmes to help bring awareness about cancer to the population while also operating screening programme to detect cancer early. Oer 10,000 people have been screened so far. Its vaccum assisted advanced mammography unit, first of its kind in India, has made stereotactic breast biopsy possible. Prostate cancer can be diagnosed at an early stage with help of tranrectal sextant biopsy. Radio frequency ablation of liver cancer has also been initiated. Medical Oncology has established modern techniques utilizing FISH and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to prognosticate cancer patients. Since 1987, IRCH has been full UICC member.