New Zealander Reads about Bengaluru in Media, Picks City for Cancer Treatment | Bengaluru News – Times of India

Bengaluru: for new zealander dave pipe, it was perhaps a last shot at life. The 69-Year-old from Christchurch, Who Had Been Battling Multiple Myeloma for Years, Found Fresh Hope in the Unlikeliest of Places-a newspaper article on Bengaluru’s Medical Expertise!The story was about a fellow kiwi who had traveled all the way to bengaluru for car t-cael therapy and gone into remission. For pipe, who had alredy endured 20 cycles of chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, it felt like the only ray of hope left.“In new zealand, laws don’t allow doctors to recommend treates outside Months. By Feb 2025, The cancer was back. “That’s when I read about car t-cell therapy, where my own t-caels would be modified and infused back into me to fight cancer. The newspaper report spoke of a professor who underwent the same treatment in Bengaluru and Had been in remission for a year. That convinsed me, “He explained.Soon after, pipe reached out to dr Prasad Narayanan, Senior Consultant and Director of Medical Oncology, Hemato-ONCOLOGY and Bone Marrow Transplant at Cytecare hopets, Yalahana, Yalahana, Yalahana, to Begin Discussions. After the initial chemo and final car-t infusion in the city, pipe said: “it was an anticlimax. Doctors asked me how I felt. I felt bored and only stred at the nine faces that were surrounding me,” Thanking Bengaluru’s Medical Specialists.Robotic Cardiac ProcedusCity Hospitals Across the Board Aree Seeing Patients Coming in from Abroad for Advanced treatments. In the past three years alone, 93 patients came to Sakra World Hospital from Outside India for Robotic Cardiac Surgeries. “While Conventional Open-Heart Surgery Typically requires 8-10 Days of Hospital Stay and 2-3 Months for Full Recovery, Patients at Sakra Undergoing Robotic Cardures ARE OFTEN DISCHICEDURES 3-4 Days, with Most Returning to Normal Life in 2-3 Weeks, “Said Hospital Representatives.