allahabad motivated towards societal committment innovation and amalgamation of new medical technology kamla nehru memorial hospital has commissioned mammomat 3000 nova mammography unit in the department of radiology with computerised stereotactic biopsy system which has opened a new era in diagnosis and treatment of breast ailments a recent study had established that breast cancer and related ailments among women had shown a remarkable rise and were expected to further move up three to four folds in the next two decadesmany young lives in their prime could be turned around without going through the trauma of suffering from a false sense of impending cancer the hospital being the largest womens hospital in asia and the only regional cancer centre in northern india had taken the lead to meet this challenge by establishing this cutting edge facility for the care of a vast number of women patients attending the hospitalaccording to sk verma deputy director administration this is the single most modern facility available in northern india and such state of the art equipment is not available any where else in the country therefore the hospital has the privilege to be the first to commission this unit for the benefit of the people of allahabad and adjoining stateshony secretary and treasurer of the hospital inder k khosla formally dedicated the equipment to public services on april 11 this year ever since over 20 patients have already availed of the benefit of this unit verma statednarrating details about the system he said that it was a digital autso adjusting mammography system which was capable of diagnosing the changes in breast tissues which were of the size of less than 1 mm also computer aided stereotactic biopsy facility provided pin point accuracy with optical guidance to take the biopsy precisely from the breast lesions which were not even palpable the equipment had an isocentric rotational facility and would image the breast tissues from all possible angles and orientation where as the patient sat in a comfortable posturethe unit obtained the breast scan by a compression mechanism of breast tissue and the computer control sensor automatically adjusted the xray parameter for obtaining the picture of tissues thus it obtained the radiograph of the breast tissue at the least xray exposure this facility was unique to this system alone the other radiometry systems available elsewhere dangerously exposed the breast to radiationthis was a unique addition in the armamentorium of the early cancer diagnosis and treatment programme of the hospital the need for which was long felt the legacy of the founders of the hospital nurtured under the leadership of mahatma gandhi had been in the forefront of providing quality medical care especially for women this had thus provided new impetus to the objective the commissioning of this equipment was expected to provide much needed relief to a large number of female patients and remove their agony about suffering from dreaded cancer by providing early diagnosis hence complete curethe hospital ran the mamography clinic on all week