The
Charles Edward Vail Memorial Cancer institute
is an Integral part of the Wanless Hospital
Miraj. The Charles Edward Vail Cancer [CEVMC]
was named to honor and to perpetuate the memory
of Dr Charles Edward Vail . The institute had
it's humble beginning when Dr. Vail came to
Miraj to work along with Dr. Wanless our founder
in 1910, he was overwhelmed to see so many cancer
patients.
Dr.Vail was a gifted surgeon
and soon began operating on cancer patients,
and a separate wing was opened to to treat
cancer patients Dr. Vail soon realized that
surgery is not the only treatment for cancer,
he brought radium needles from Germany , On
29th Nov 1930 a patient with cancer of the
eye lid was successfully treated using Radium
needle implants, Newer machines such as superficial
and deep X-ray therapy machines were added
to the department in the fifties.
The department has grown from
its humble beginng to present it now, equipped
with state of the art cobalt unit, Theratron
Phoenix , capable of treating all kinds of
solid tumors Often chemotherapy is given concurrently
[together with] Radiotherapy Since treatment
of cancer is multimodal, many joint clinics
are held by Radiation oncology department
with other units Head & Neck clinic on
every Thursday Gynec Oncology clinic on every
Tuesday , to name a few.
Staff
of the Radiotherapy Department
Dr.
D.P. Rebentisch - MD, DMRT, Chief Oncologist
& HOD Dr. Nagendra Rao - MD, Visiting
Oncologist Dr. Anand Guddur - Visiting
Oncologist Mr. Arthur Dillon - Medical
Physist & RSO Mr. S. A. Bhore - Radiation
Therapy Technologist Mr. P.S. Reddy - Radiation
Therapy Technologist Mrs. Asha Jadhav - Nurse (ANM) Mr. Ram Jadhav - Ward Boy