Bengal set to get Head and Neck Cancer Society
Kolkata: In a significant development in the health sector, Bengal is going to get its first dedicated 'Head and Neck Cancer Society', which will extensively work to check the disease through awareness and will also provide world-class healthcare facilities to the people.
The Head and Neck Cancer Society aims at highlighting the role of the society and the people in the state to check the disease.
The city, which is one of the most well-equipped metropolitans in terms of healthcare, will add an exclusive feather to its much glorious cap with the anti-cancer society.
The society was recently launched in the city. Its main purpose is to focus on its role to prevent the disease, spread awareness about the disease and discuss with people the current scenario of head and neck cancer in the state and also in the country.
The society will also be involved in training of doctors in the early detection of cancer and how world-class faci-
lities can be rendered to the patients.
A conference was held in the city recently by the International Federation of Head & Neck Oncologic Societies (IFHNOS), where doctors from across the world took part.
This year, IFHNOS will hold its annual meeting to make this multidisciplinary head and neck cancer summit the best source of updated information in head and neck cancer management in the state.
It will provide the most up-to-date information on multidisciplinary therapies, the
latest clinical research, new treatment strategies, supportive care and scientific breakthroughs to ensure practical and clinically relevant exchange of information for the entire head and neck cancer community.
Dr. Gautam Mukhopadhayay, Dr. PN Mohapatra, Dr. Aniruddha Dam, Dr. Sukrit Bose and Dr. Sourav Datta were present in the recently concluded conference.
Dr. Gautam Mukhopadhayay, senior trustee, West Bengal Head and Neck Society, said: "It gives us immense pleasure to launch West Bengal's first and exclusive Society dedicated to Head & Neck Cancer. We are confident that it will set benchmarks in the city as far as the healthcare platform is concerned."
