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Head & Neck #Oncology Team organised #Cancer Survivorship Program earlier this month @ CMC Vellore Ranipet Campus. #Healtheducation sessions and clinical assessments conducted for #patients; medical lectures and workshops for #students and faculty. Program also hosted pre-beta launch of 'Bandhu Care' #app developed in collaboration with #linguistic team from @iiit_hyderabad; app is designed to help patients fulfill tasks and receive support with queries in multiple languages including Marathi, Tamil, English, Hindi, Assamese.

CMC Vellore & Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Pune (C-DAC Pune) have entered into an umbrella #MoU to foster joint #research projects, capacity-building, collaborative publications, and fundraising for research activities. Work, through the partnership, is ongoing with @ICMRDELHI awarding a 3-yr research project, focusing on advancing #oralcancer studies. @cdacindia

PRAGRAD, a new patient-driven treatment approach for very advanced oral cavity #cancers (which cannot be surgically removed) shows significant improvement in patient outcomes: prospective study by CMC #research team. Instead of a one-size-fits-all plan, #patients are given the choice of #palliative care or aggressive chemoradiation, promoting shared decision-making and #PatientAutonomy. It was found that when decision making was shared, more patients were willing to try aggressive chemoradiation; half the number who responded to initial #chemotherapy and continued aggressive treatment, survived over 30 months - 5 times longer than those choosing palliation (6 months). Nearly half survived beyond 2 years - a remarkable outcome for this advanced stage. Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.202… @ASTRO_org #RedJournal #CancerCare #PatientChoice

#Congratulations to Dr. Sukesh Chandran Nair, Sr. Professor at CMC Vellore's Department of Transfusion Medicine and Immunohaematology for prestigious award by World Federation of Hemophilia @ #WFHCongress2024 @wfhemophilia #healthcare #PatientCare #doctor #Awards #hemophilia

Day 1 of workshop on Health Data Standards and Security organised by Biomedical Informatics Unit. Discussion on #privacy & security - @RVellakkat, Partner & Senior Associate @foxmandalindia with Anisha Koshy & Deepika Srinivasa, public policy experts from @DSCI_Connect. #data

CMC #AI symposium Day 1 Uma Nambiar, Chair of @DigitalHealth91, speaking on 'Telemedicine, Interoperability and Challenges in #Digital Transformation', said that telemedicine solutions will be the first entry point for EHR #data in the #future; they should be seen as enablers.

#AI symposium Dipti Sharma, Head, Language Technologies Research Centre @iiit_hyderabad speaking on Natural Language Processing & #healthcare in Indian context explained the devt of NLP based translation models for various Indian languages & how that would reduce #digitaldivide.