Yashoda Hospital Launches India's First MRI Cancer Treatment

In a major development to health sector, Elekta a Sweden-based company, launched India’s first MR Linac for cancer treatment, at Yashodha Hospitals in Hyderabad, on June 20. The Magnetic Resonance Imaging Guided Linear Accelerator (MR-LINAC) is expected to deliver radiation therapy treatment with precision. Notably, the launch came after the recent WHO saying, that India should have one radiotherapy machine, especially when India reports 1.3 million cancer cases, annually.