{"id":8626,"date":"2013-03-07T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T05:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2013-04-28T19:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-04-28T13:55:13","slug":"rcc-trivandrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/rcc-trivandrum\/","title":{"rendered":"RCC Trivandrum; A real blessing for the Cancer Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), in Trivandrum<\/strong> was established in 1981 jointly by the state government and the central government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RCC Trivandrum<\/strong> is an internationally recognized centre for conducting a wide range of cancer research and providing facilities for cancer diagnosis, treatment, palliation and rehabilitation. Their goal is not just cancer treatment; the centre hopes to control the disease as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Regional Cancer Centre Trivandrum\u00a0also conducts awareness programmes through the media, through camps and classes aimed at preventing the disease. In Kerala more than Thirty-five thousand people are diagnosed with cancer. Out of these, only 13,000 people visit the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Regional Cancer Center in Trivandrum<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About 30% of the cases can be prevented and another 30% is completely curable through treatment.&#8221; says Surendran Chunakara, Public Relations Officer, RCC. &#8220;For the rest of the patient, RCC try to give them quality life in their last days through palliative care and make the death easy and painless&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Cancer Treatment in RCC Trivandrum<\/h2>\n<p>For treatment <strong>RCC Thiruvananthapuram<\/strong>\u00a0has multi-disciplinary system which includes different therapies and surgeries. There are also hi-tech treatment facilities like Bone Marrow Transplantation, Radio Therapy and Micro Vascular Tissue Transfer.<\/p>\n<p><em>RCC Trivandrum<\/em> is following a category-based billing to its patients. There are three categories F (Free), M (Minimum) and O (Ordinary).<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;F&#8217; category is for those patients coming from socio-economically poor background and the treatment is free for them. However, they still need to pay for the medications. The next &#8216;M&#8217; Category covers 30% of the patients and they have to pay around 40% to 50% of the expenses. The last &#8216;O&#8217; category patients have to pay the whole amount.<\/p>\n<h3>RCC Trivandrum address<\/h3>\n<p>Medical College Campus,<br \/>\nPB No.2417,<br \/>\nThiruvananthapuram,<br \/>\nIndia- 695011<br \/>\nPhone- +91-471-2442541<br \/>\nFax- +91-471-2447454<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Regional Cancer Centre (RCC), in Trivandrum was established in 1981 jointly by the state government and the central government. RCC Trivandrum is an internationally recognized centre for conducting a wide range of cancer research and providing facilities for cancer diagnosis, treatment, palliation and rehabilitation. Their goal is not just cancer treatment; the centre hopes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[321,452],"class_list":["post-8626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-rcc-trivandrum","tag-trivandrum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}