Doctors give a new lease of life to 2 cancer patients

RAIPUR: Two middle-aged women suffering from gall bladder tumour were given a fresh lease of life after doctors at Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar hospital conducted laparoscopy radical cholecystectomy on them.
While one of the women is a staff nurse in the government hospital, the other is an underprivileged patient from Balod district. Both of them were admitted to the hospital after they complained of abdominal discomfort, weight loss and urinary problems.Medical investigations found that patients had tumour in gall bladder, which had spread to the liver as well. To remove the malignant tumour of liver and gall bladder in both the cancer patients, oncologist Dr Ashutosh Gupta opted for treatment under cholecystectomy surgery, which is a minimal invasive surgery. After undergoing laparoscopy surgery, both the patients have now been discharged from the hospital. Explaining about the complications involved in medical procedures, oncologists explained that in case of one of the patients, an open surgery was performed for the removal of cysts around her liver.
Later, laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed.
Talking to TOI, Ambedkar hospital medical superintendent Dr Vivek Chaudhary said, "Gall bladder cancer spreads much rapidly as compared to other tumours and cholecystectomy laparoscopic surgery, an advance technique is performed in only few selected centres in India. In Central India, this procedure is being conducted for the first time in Chhattisgarh's Ambedkar hospital. Both the cases were successfully treated.
After cholecystectomy surgery, the patients were kept under observation for another 36 hours before they were discharged from the hospital.