Patna: Precision radiotherapy, the latest treatment for cancer, which ensures radiation of cancerous cells preciously without affecting other non-cancerous tissues and robotic cancer surgery, would be among the many topics to be discussed by noted oncologists and onco-surgeons of the country in a two-day conference named 6th ONCOCON 2018.

East Oncology Group (EOG) in collaboration with Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROI) will organise it at a city hotel on August 18 and 19.

Around 300 oncologists and onco-surgeons from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Delhi, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, Delhi, RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Calcutta, among others are expected to participate in the event.

"The latest cancer treatments, including precision radiotherapy, doesn't have side effects such as conventional cancer surgery, as it allows focus radiation that spares normal brain tissues. In conventional surgery, around 10 per cent of the non-cancerous tissues get radiated," said secretary of Bihar chapter of AROI and organising chairman of the conference P.N. Pandit, while addressing a news conference on Friday.

He said apart from deliberations on various cancers, including prostate, breast and blood cancer, there would also be a session in which cancer survivors would bust myths related to cancer. "Also, there will be a separate session on pain and palliative care," he said.

The organising secretary of the conference-cum-secretary of the East Oncology Group, Dr Rajesh Kumar Singh, said: "Among the doctors who will participate in the conference include Swaroop Mitra, who is an expert in breast and gynaecological cancers and brain tumours and heads the radiation oncology department at the Delhi-based Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Centre, gynaecological oncologist Samir Hazra from Dhanbad-based RC Hazra Memorial Hospital and clinical haematologist Sharmila Chandra from Calcutta-based RN Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, will be among the experts who will participate."

Dr Madhuchanda Kar of Calcutta-based Peerless Hospital, radiation oncologist Anitha Ramesh from Chennai's Apollo Hospital and hemato oncologist Jina Bhattacharya from Guwahati will be among other delegates.

Pandit said the oncologists would make a point to put their demands before the state government to address infrastructure-related deficiencies for oncology-related treatments in the state-run hospitals.