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The State-run Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (KMIO) has successfully completed a challenging stem cell/bone marrow transplantation (BMT) connected a nine-year-old lad with relapsed Wilms tumour, a uncommon kidney cancer, who has lone 1 functioning kidney.
The accomplishment marks a milestone for Karnataka’s lone government-run BMT unit, which has completed 130, including 43 paediatric, specified procedures since its inception successful April 2022.
The child, Yuvraj (name changed), was archetypal diagnosed with Wilms tumour successful December 2022 and underwent chemotherapy, surgical removal of his near kidney and radiation therapy. However, his crab recurred successful April 2025, placing his beingness successful jeopardy. The child’s parents — a home idiosyncratic and a daily-wage labourer — were incapable to spend precocious treatment.
Doctors astatine Kidwai, aft evaluating the relapse, advised high-dose chemotherapy followed by a bony marrow transplant arsenic his champion accidental of survival. The procedure, carried retired and completed by a squad led by Vasundhara Kailasnath, Associate Professor, BMT, connected December 2, 2025, came with important risks owed to altered kidney function, the child’s young age, dense anterior attraction vulnerability and susceptibility to unsafe infections.
“We had to guarantee beardown crab power portion keeping his remaining kidney protected,” Dr. Vasundhara said, describing the challenges.
Naveen T., Additional Charge Director, KMIO, noted that the State-run BMT programme is helping children from economically weaker families entree specialised attraction that would beryllium unaffordable successful backstage hospitals.
At the child’s discharge, Minister for Medical Education and Skill Development Sharan Prakash Patil congratulated the objective squad and officially handed implicit Kidwai’s recently granted HOTA licence (as per the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Act, 1994) that volition alteration BPL patients undergoing BMT. Kidwai joins a tiny radical of hospitals successful Karnataka to person this certification.
