Date: 8/9/2009
TUMSPR: Omani Health Minister, Dr. Musa visited TUMS Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Research Center and talked with Prof. Ghavamzadeh about treatments offered at the center and cord blood banking on Wednesday August 5, 2009.
Dr. Ali bin Muhammad bin Musa, the Omani Health Minister, visited Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) Hematology-Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation Research Center after meeting the chancellor, Dr. Begher Larijani, and visiting Metabolism and Endocrinology Research Center. The minister talked to the one of the most prominent scientists of the country, Professor Ardeshir Ghavamzadeh, on the services the center offers and the kind of diseases treated there.
Dr. Ghavamzadeh said the center has been involved in carrying out bone marrow transplantations since 1991 and put the number of operations at a figure more than 3000. He then compare the used protocols by western countries and that of the center and concluded the ones offered at the center were of better outcome as there were fewer side-effects such as catarrhacts, secondary neoplasms, and infertility as total body irradiations were not part of the treatment schedule.
On thalassemia treatment, Ghavamzadeh put Iran at the first rank with more than 400 transplants per year. He believed transplants for these patients was most suitable between the ages of 5 to 10 bet emphasized that patients as young as 2 up to 22 could be candidates or the procedure if heart and liver were not in a compensated sate. The oldest patient getting the treatment in the center had been 28 years old.
On question raised by the minister about the eligibility of private blood cord banking, the professor strongly suggested public banking and called the private ones as non-scientific.
Dr. Musa said that Omani patients with cancer were sent to India and the complicated cases to Germany and other parts Europe and enquired about the nationality admitted patients at the center. Dr. Hamidieh, the head of Pediatrics Oncology Ward, informed that patients had been admitted at the center from 11 countries from the region and some parts of Europe so far.
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