Ceylinco to set up modern cancer treatment centre

HEALTHCARE: Ceylinco Healthcare Services Ltd., (CHSL) set up an ultra modern cancer treatment unit in Sri Lanka.

The new treatment unit in Colombo 2 will be the country's first private cancer treatment facility, and will be the only centre equipped with a Linear Accelerator (Linac) offering the most sophisticated and safe radiotherapy available, the company said. CHSL Deputy Chairman R. Renganathan headed a team of directors who signed the investment agreement for the establishment of this unit at the Board of Investment (BOI) recently.

Expected to be operational by May next year, the Ceylinco Cancer Treatment Centre will be built next to the Ceylinco Healthcare Centre at Park Street, which is the country's most advanced private standalone facility for cancer screening and for information and advice on the management and treatment of cancers.

The new centre will be equipped with the latest Linear Accelerator used to produce mega voltage x-rays to treat deep-seated tumours with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT), an HDR - Brachytherapy unit, CT Simulator, a sophisticated Treatment Planning Computer and a C ARM X Ray Unit.

Besides radiation therapy, the new centre will offer radioactive iodine treatment for thyroid cancer, Brachytherapy, a means by which radiotherapy is given directly to the site of the cancer using various applicators to insert the radioactive source from the machine to the cancerous tissue.