From cosmesis to cancer. Cover it all.
Eye Cancer is a life-altering disease – it not just can potentially wipe out the vision but also can endanger the eye and the life. Every year, about 10,000 new eye cancer cases are diagnosed in India, 70 – 80% in adults and 20 – 30% in children. About 1500 children are diagnosed with retinoblastoma each year in India.
Upon early detection, complete cure is possible with appropriate treatment. A few decades ago, retinoblastoma was considered to be uniformly fatal, while the current management strategy is able to save life in over 95% of children, salvage the eye in 90% and save vision in 85%.
Centre for Sight offers contemporary and cost-effective approaches to preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancers of the eye, accessible to all. Our aim is to establish a new benchmark in the comprehensive care of eye cancers.
Comprehensive, evidence-based, experience-driven, and protocol-guided management of tumors of the eyelid, conjunctiva, intraocular structures and orbit has a focus at Centre for Sight Hyderabad, which has been conceived as the International Referral Centre for Ocular Oncology.
The facility is equipped with sophisticated computerized 3-D brachytherapy planning system, Ruthenium 106 plaque brachytherapy, thermocouple-driven cryotherapy, integrated low-morbidity day care chemotherapy unit; and access to sentinel node biopsy, sophisticated Novalis radiotherapy and Linear Accelerator with multi-energy photon and electron beam delivery, Image Guided Radiotherapy, Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy, 3-D Conformal Radiotherapy, PET-CT Guided Radiotherapy etc.
Retinoblastoma
They Live and See
Facilities include day care child-friendly chemotherapy facility, plaque brachytherapy, large spot IO transpupillary thermotherapy, sophisticated cryosurgery suite, wide-field pediatric digital fundus photography and FFA for image-guided treatment, nanoparticle-based periocular chemotherapy, intravitreal chemotherapy, and access to blood bank, super selective intra-arterial chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation and clinical genetics. Our public awareness campaigns will hopefully help in early diagnosis.
Ocular, Orbital and Facial Prosthesis
An Eye for an Eye
Ocularistry is an essential service to cosmetically rehabilitate patients when all else fails. The work profile of our Ocularistry service comprises of custom ocular prosthesis, light weight prosthesis, self-lubricating prosthesis, silicone prosthesis, custom conformer, hydrogel socket expansion, glue-on and spectacle-mounted exenteration prosthesis, facial prosthesis and osseo-integrated prosthesis in collaboration with a maxillofacial surgeon.