International Cancer Center, CSI Mission Hospital Neyyoor

24/10/2024

🚨 **Join Us for the Anti-Drug Campaign Rally!** 🚨

I will be participating in the **Anti-Drug Campaign Rally** organized by the **Rotary Club of Port City Colachel** and **Stella Mary's College of Engineering**.

🗓️ **Date:**24/10/2024
📍 **Location:** Sub-Collector Office, Thuckalay, Kanyakumari District
🕒 **Time:** 09.30am

This is a crucial initiative aimed at spreading awareness among youth and the community about the dangers of drug and substance abuse. As a **Cancer Specialist**, I will be sharing insights on how drug and to***co use leads to severe health consequences, including cancer and life-threatening infections.

Let’s come together to say **NO to drugs** and **YES to a healthier future!**
Your presence and support can make a difference. 🌟

**All are invited!** Let's walk together towards a drug-free society. 🙌

09/09/2024

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Dr. Lala Gladson Ananda Robin is a General Surgeon. This doctor can answer your health queries and is available for phone/video chat consultations. Get Second Medical Opinion Now.

01/09/2021

We welcome Dr Renusha on joining our prestigious Institute as Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Radiologist.
Ultrasound, Doppler, Image guided interventions and Mammography services are fully functional currently in our hospital.

02/09/2020

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Remember: Cervical cancer can be prevented.

25/08/2020

Interesting History of Surgery-

The year was 1957. A middle aged surgeon was working in Uganda, in the Mulago hospital in Kampala.He was a devout Christian and considered himself a missionary. By his own admission, he wasn’t a great surgeon.What he lacked in surgical genius, he made up for in tenacity. One day a boy named Africa walked into his clinic. The malnourished boy had a large swelling in his jaw-making him look grotesque. In a few days, the boy died of his tumor. A couple of weeks later another boy walked into his clinic, with the same kind of swelling and met the same end eventually. The surgeon was intrigued – by the striking similarity of the cases and the ferocity of the tumor. He decided to investigate.

He had a handicap though – a stray bouncer had damaged one of his eyes permanently during an adoloscent cricket match. He was aging and was working in Sub Saharan Africa -far from where the limelight usually shone in medicine. He had no funds or great expertise to draw upon. The people he treated were poor and wanted some solace for their pain, not fancy research.

Nevertheless with characteristic zeal, he asked around if doctors had seen similar cases. They said yes – so he pored over the records and to his astonishment found several similar cases, all of them ending in death. No one had connected the dots till then. He then looked at the literature – sure enough, there was an article about a similar tumor in 1901 in an obscure tropical medicine journal. The tumor he had seen wasn’t new. The pathologists had reported each of these tumors as sarcoma.

He quickly wrote a manuscript titled “A sarcoma involving the jaws in African Children” and posted it to the British Journal of Surgery. The reply never came.

By sheer accident, he met a physician called Oettle in South Africa. Oettle was younger and his star was on the ascent. By now the surgeon had collected grim photos of his patients. He showed Oettle and asked about similar cases in South Africa. Oettle waved his hand and said these cases didn’t exist in South Africa.

With no formal training in epidemiology, the surgeon decided to send out questionnaires with the photos to doctors across the country. The pace was excruciatingly slow – it took around 4 years for 400 responses. Armed with the information, he represented each case with a pin on a map. Since he couldn’t afford colored pins, he painted the pins with his daughter’s paint himself. A pattern was emerging. The tumor seemed to have a geographical distribution.

He presented his finding in Middlesex. Little did he know that his presentation would trigger a multinational effort against a common enemy.Among the audience was a man named Tony Epstein, a British pathologist. The idea of an infectious agent causing the tumor began to emerge. There were skeptics – unlike other infections, there are no cancer epidemics. Nor did the brothers and sisters of these unfortunate children get the disease. What kind of infectious agent behaved like this?

The surgeon decided to do a ‘geographical biopsy’. He applied for funds and got a 15 pound grant from the British government. With that and the help of his friend, he took an old four wheeler, repaired it and started on a long Safari. In sweltering heat, he would travel to Johannesburg and then back to Kampala, covering a total of 12 countries! In each place, he collected data (even before that term became entrenched in medical literature). On a hunch,he got external review of the old slides. The results surprised him. The tumors were neither sarcomas nor carcinomas. The originated from lymphoid tissue- a lymphoma. Under the magnification of a microscope, these small round cells resembled a starry sky.

Tony quickly enlisted the help of his friend Yvonne Barr. Since they coudn’t isolate the infectious agent – it was too small – they decided to try a different approach. They looked for antibodies to the small infectious agent – presumably a virus. Sure enough almost all the cases had antibodies directed against this agent and it even stained the tumor cells. At long last, they had discovered the first human cancer caused by virus, one that bears their name – the Epstein Barr Virus.

Meanwhile the surgeon’s name became popular in medical circles and he received an offer to try methotrexate in these children from Sloan Kettering. To his amazement the tumor melted in these children. It returned in some. So he begged for cyclophosphamide from an American manufacturer, which managed to hold the emperor of all maladies at bay even if for a short while.

This is the story of how within a decade a cancer was discovered, its morphological fingerprint identified, its geography dilineated, its causative agent discovered and its treatment started.It is the story of how an one eyed Irish surgeon, saw what all others had missed. It is a story of discovery that spans several continents in the face of impossible odds. It is a story that shows than even the ordinary can achieve great things with perseverance.

So when you feel overwhelmed that you are in some remote no man’s land fighting a lone battle, remember this surgeon.

The name is Burkitt. Denis Parsons Burkitt.

08/08/2020

Even during this unfortunate pandemic situation, we are treating all Cancer patients with best-in-class Cancer-Care & Services with all safety precautions.

31/07/2020

18/07/2020

06/07/2020

We are continuing our cancer care services even during this difficult time.
We are safe to visit for consultation and treatment.
Most of the Treatments are done in Day Care / OPD basis, thus patient need not worry about staying for long in the hospital.

* Cancer Patients have to be very careful in terms of hand hygiene, wearing masks and social distancing.
* It is advised that only one attendant visits along with the patient for Care.