Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer
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The Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer (QSCBC)
“ a sanctuary for all women in need “ Her Majesty Queen Sirikit – Patron
The Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer (QSCBC) has a remit to diagnose and treat breast cancer patients; it is open to all women, primarily the under-privileged. It is a national specialist centre for breast cancer ; a tertiary referral centre where other hospitals are able to refer challenging breast cancer cases. It is linked to the King Chulalongkorn Medical School and Hospital,( under the auspices of the Thai Red Cross).
The QSCBC houses the most advanced equipment available and an experienced team, built on postgraduate training and research. The centre is an inpatient and outpatient hospital offering multi-disciplinary treatment, including a full diagnostic range of equipment for breast imaging; twin operating theatres; radiotherapy specifically designated for breast cancer;( including intraoperative radiotherapy; a chemotherapy suite- (offering scalp cooling); a breast cancer pathology laboratory – conventional pathology, as well as looking at individual genomes for tailor made treatment
(Nanostring, Pam 50, DSP- Digital Spatial Profiler). The QSCBC keeps its own breast cancer tumour bank, to match future advances in treatment protocols, as they develop over time. Samples of each patient’s tumour is kept deep frozen at – 80 C can be retrieved at any time for analysis. Please click to Breast Radiology Unit and Breast Pathological and Translational Research Unit
The centre is a post-graduate training centre and is active in research, including intra-operative radiotherapy; locally advanced breast cancer and a new immunotherapy approach to breast cancer. Please click to Research and Post-graduate Training
Most of the funding is raised by the QSCBC and the QSCBC Foundation(QSCBCF), which was started to support the projects and work of the QSCBC, including the new convalescence and end of life care facility, PINK PARK; the QSCBC Breast and Cervical Cancer Outreach Screening Project for the underprivileged in slum communities carried out for 20 years and the annual QSCBC Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign to educate the public about the risks of breast and cervical cancer.
Dr Kris Chatamra, MBBS [London], LRCP, MRCS [England], F.R.C.S. [England], M.D.[London] is the Honorary Director Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer [QSCBC] and the Queen Sirikit Centre Foundation; Fellow of the Royal Society of Thailand and contributing editor of the International Journal of Surgery. Dr Kris Chatamra founded the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer, open to all women, but particularly the underprivileged, which was opened in 2005 by its Patron, H.M. Queen Sirikit of Thailand, (now the King’s Mother). He has had over thirty years experience in the field of breast cancer, having been a senior clinician in the UK and a Member of the Court of Examiners at the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Breast cancer has become the leading cancer killer of Thai women, affecting 1 in 10 women (over a lifetime). Kris Chatamra’s sincere belief that patients, whatever their socio-economic background, particularly the under-privileged, deserve the very best technology and medical care available, are a key part of the care at the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer( QSCBC). He has dedicated the last twenty- five years, as founder and honorary director of the QSCBC, to raising funds to provide the most up to date equipment and post-graduate training in the U.K. and U.S., for medical and nursing staff, for the Queen Sirikit Centre for Breast Cancer (QSCBC). This national centre for breast cancer, primarily for the underprivileged, is linked to King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital and Medical School, under the auspices of the Thai Red Cross Society. The QSCBC has consequently become one of the most modern facilities internationally, with the aim to help raise the standard of breast cancer care in Thailand, by offering the most modern approach to diagnosis and treatment.