‘Proton Beam Therapy helpful to treat cancer’

Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC) stressed that proton beam therapy can be helpful in cancer treatment amid the growing number of cancer patients in the country.

Proton Beam Therapy is a radiation therapy that uses tiny particles called protons as excellent cancer cell killers. Protons deliver their energy but do not damage healthy tissue in comparison to photon therapy.

Therefore, a higher dose of radiation can be targeted at the tumour without affecting many normal healthy cells, speakers said at a press conference held at Arial in Banani, Dhaka, on Friday afternoon.

Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC), the first and only proton therapy centre in South Asia and the Middle East and India’s first JCI accredited Cancer hospital, promotes the most successful focused therapy for cancer – Proton Beam Therapy, said Dr Sapna Nangia, Senior Consultant, Radiation Oncology program for Head Neck, Breast, and Gynaecological Cancers at the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre Chennai at the press interaction session.

The expert shared details on the rising number of cancer cases in the country and highlighted how complicated scenarios were treated with the utmost precision– with successful personal experiences shared by the Bangladeshi patients treated at Apollo

Proton Cancer Centre Jamal Uddin, Nur E Tamanna and Mozammal Haq Chowdhury.

She said: “It is quite unknown, but the advancements of proton technology as a treatment option for cancer began in the 1940s, which has developed to become Proton Beam Therapy.”

Proton Therapy has emerged as an excellent treatment modality for a number of cancers. One of the most common sites being treated at the Apollo Proton Cancer Centre is head and neck cancers.

Patients undergoing Proton Therapy have significantly less discomfort during and after treatment and are less likely to require hospital admission, tube feeding, or treatment interruption.

At Apollo Proton Cancer Centre, we have the latest PBS technology, enabling us to deliver highly focused treatments to each tumour. Each tumour is treated with protons, spot-by-spots and layer-by-layer. It has been proven successful in curing or controlling many cancers when used appropriately.

About Apollo Proton Cancer Centre (APCC), Chennai, India, is the first Proton Therapy Centre in South Asia & the Middle East and is India’s first JCI accredited Cancer hospital.

An added feather in the cap is the recent launch of India’s first & only site-specific Robotic Oncology Program.