| Dr. (Mrs) Nandita Choudhury, Principal-cum-Chief Superintendent, Assam Medical College & Hospital, Principal Investigator, Hospital Based Cancer Registry, Dibrugarh | | Dr. M.S.Ali, Co-Principal Investigator, Senior Bio-statistician and Officer-in-Charge | | Dr. D.J. Barua, Head, Department of Pathology | | Dr. (Ms.) R. Akhtar, R.O, HBCR | | Mrs. S. Ahmed, Social Investigator, HBCR | | Mrs. S. Neog, Social Investigator, HBCR |
| | Assam Medical College was established in Dibrugarh, Assam in the year of the independence of India on 3rd November 1947. It was the only teaching hospital in the entire N.E. Region till the year 1960. The college is supported by a large 1300 bedded general hospital having almost all the specialties. It has super specialties in Cardiology, Nephrology, Neurology, Urology, Cardio-thoracic surgery and Plastic surgery. The hospital caters to the needs of the eastern districts of Assam as well as part of the needs of the neighboring states of Arunachal Pradesh and Nagaland. It has also adequate facilities for diagnosis and treatment of cancer and about 1500 new and recurrent cancer cases are treated in the hospital each year. Hospital Cancer Registry based at Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, which was initially established by the ICMR in collaboration with the Govt. of Assam, has been functioning since the inception of the NCRP. HBCR, Dibrugarh is one of the collaborating centers for the project on "Development of an Atlas of Cancer in India". The incident cancer data for the year 2001 based on microscopic verification has already been sent within the stipulated time and the work on 2002 data is in progress and would be sent shortly. Apart from the HBCR the Department of Pathology is also actively involved with the above project.
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