Maiden civil-military medical meet

A two-day national level medical conference called Continued Medical Education (CME) Programme on “Recent Developments in Lung Cancer” was inaugurated by Rear Admiral R J Nadkarni, VSM, Chief of Staff

KOCHI: A two-day national level medical conference called Continued Medical Education (CME) Programme on “Recent Developments in Lung Cancer” was inaugurated by Rear Admiral R J Nadkarni, VSM, Chief of Staff, Southern Naval Command, at Puzhamukham hall, Naval Base, Kochi the other day. The programme, attended by oncologists from across the country, is being organised at the naval hospital INHS Sanjivani under the aegis of Indian Co-operative Network in Oncology (ICON) and Armed Forces Oncology Group (AFOG).

The welcome address was delivered by Surgeon Commodore (Dr) Subhash Ranjan, NM, VSM, the Commanding Officer of INHS Sanjivani. Many eminent speakers including Dr Purvish M Parikh, former head of the department, Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr R Rangarao (Max hospital, Delhi), Dr T Raja (Apollo Hospital, Chennai) and Dr Debnarayan Dutta (Amrita Hospital, Kochi) delivered talks on a wide range of topics, including Application of Molecular Diagnostic techniques, Targeted Therapy and Local Therapy in Metastatic Lung Cancers.

The conference intended to provide a forum for discussion on the latest developments in lung cancer diagnostics and management. This is the third national meet of its kind and the first ever at Kochi post collaboration between ICON and AFOG since early 2000 towards understanding the problems associated with cancer and sharing of best practices in treatment protocols in the military and civil hospitals.

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