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The Cancer Care in Eastern India, especially West Bengal, started evolving a long time back along with a few other centres in India. Some of them were government institutes and the others were NGOs and private hospitals. The last decade however saw a huge boom of many cancer centres—either a part of government hospitals/multispecialty private hospitals or some as standalone comprehensive cancer centres. This article briefly covers the evolution, referring to the Official Websites of the Institutes. References were taken from the Official Websites of the cancer hospitals and also Google search for Cancer Care facilities in Eastern and North East India.
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I would like to thank Prof K S Gopinath for giving me the opportunity to write about the history of development of Cancer Care facilities in Eastern India post-Independence. As desired, details are given about the oldest hospitals in this area, which had been the main referral centres for decades. I would also like to thank Dr Ravi Kannan and his wife Ms Seeta for sharing the history of Cachar Cancer Centre, Dr Praful Das for sharing the summary of Cancer Care facilities in Odhisa, and Dr Abhisekh Basu and Dr Jyotirup Goswami for sharing the summary of radiotherapy facilities available in West Bengal. Reference has been taken from the Official Websites of the other facilities in East and North East India, especially the ones with radiation oncology and/or postgraduate teaching facilities in oncology.
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Informations about other hospitals were taken by Google search for Cancer Hospitals in West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and North East India.
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Gupta, A. Cancer Care—Post-Independence Evolution in West Bengal and Eastern India. Indian J Surg Oncol 13 (Suppl 1), 70–75 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13193-022-01603-w
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