Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Dec 17: The Department of Nuclear Medicine, SKIMS today conducted its maiden Sentinal Lymph node Scintigraphy ion breast cancer patients which will be taken for Sentinal Lymph node (SLN) biopsy by the department of surgical oncology.
SKIMS PRO said that the procedure is another milestone achieved by the department which will go a long way in benefitting cancer patients.
Head of the Department Dr Tanvir Ahmad informed that patients of breast cancer, tongue cancer and melanoma are going to get benefitted from this procedure.
“The procedure is the first of its kind available to the patients of the UT J&K and will go a long way in improving the treatment of cancer patients,” he said.
He further explained that Lymphoscintigraphy (sentinel lymph node mapping) is an imaging technique that is used to identify the lymph drainage basin, determine the number of sentinel nodes, differentiate sentinel nodes from subsequent nodes, locate the sentinel node in an unexpected location, and mark the sentinel node over the skin for biopsy.
Director SKIMS Prof. Parvaiz A. Koul complimented the department for conducting the procedure and said that advanced procedures will help poor patients which will be conducted now routinely at SKIMS.
“The patients had to go outside for such procedures facing a lot of inconveniences and incurring a lot of expenditures, the procedure now available at SKIMS will facilitate such patients,” he said.
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