What is Cancer?

Cancer is actually a group of many related diseases that all have to do with cells.cells are the very small units that make up all living things, including the human body. There billions of cells in each person's body. Cancer happens when cells that are not normal grow and spread very fast. normal body cells grow and divide and know to stop growing. Over, time they also die. Unlike these normal cells, cancer cells just continue to grow and divide out of control and don't die when they're supposed to. Cancer cells usually group or clump together to form tumors. A growing tumor becomes a lump of cancer cells that that can destroy the normal cells around the tumor and damage the body's healthy tissues. This can make someone very sick. Sometimes cancer cells break away from the original tumor and travel to other areas of the body, where they keep growing and can go on to form new tumors. This is how cancer spreads. The spreads of a tumor to a new place in the body is called metastasis.

Sri lanka Cancer Hospital

Only one cancer hospital in sri lanka. it is located in Maharagama. National Cancer Institute, Maharagama, is the premier tertiary referral hospital dedicated to the diagnosis and follow up treatment of cancer patients in Sri Lanka, which is under the control of Department of Health, Provides all its services free of charge.

The NCI offers a full range of modern diagnostic facilities necessary for the identification and confirmation of all kinds of cancers. Specialized therapeutic Care, such as Surgeries, Chemotherapy, and Radiotherapy, are provided on the supervision of the Consultant oncologist.

The NCI functions as a training center for undergraduates of Colombo, Ragama, and Sri Jayawardanapura medical faculties as well as for the post graduate students of PGIM.

Modern radiation treatment unit for Maharagama Cancer Hospital

Minister of Health, Nimal Siripala De Silva  inspected the newly completed Radiation Treatment Unit at the Cancer Hospital Maharagama.

According to Health Ministry sources, the total expenditure incurred in the construction of the unit was one billion rupees. The Unit will commence treatment within the next two months.

During his inspection visit, Minister inquired into immediate measures that should be taken to begin treatment.