The Hindu Business Line : Apollo to invest Rs 80 cr to buy cancer treatment system

Addressing a press conference after setting up the first CyberKnife facility in Chennai, Dr Prathap C. Reddy, Executive Chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group, said the company plans to set up two more robotic radio surgery systems in two cities but the locations are yet to be decided. This system is designed to treat tumours anywhere in the body with sub-millimetre accuracy.

Cyberknife uses real time image guidance technology and computer-controlled robotics to deliver an extremely precise dose of radiation to targets, avoiding the surrounding healthy tissue and adjusting for patient and tumour movements during treatment.

Cost factor

When asked about the treatment cost, Dr Reddy said: “It would cost double the amount of the existing cancer treatment available. We should be able to limit at about Rs 5 lakh.”

These services will be open for overseas patients as well, he said.

CyberKnife treatment reduces treatment time to a week compared to six or seven weeks taken by other procedures and there are no major side effects, said Mr Reddy.

Apollo Hospitals has set up its first robotic radio surgery system in Chennai at an investment of Rs 75 crore, including infrastructure. The robotic radio surgery system cost about Rs 35 crore, he said.

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