Our Rector Prof. Dr. Reha Metin ALKAN made a visit with Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Nurcan BAYKAM to The Breast Diseases Policlinic within Çorum Training and Research Hospital, Medicine School of Hitit University which started to admit patients. During the visit, Prof. Dr. ALKAN was accompanied with Prof. Dr. Mete DOLAPÇI, Deputy Dean of Medicine School; Prof. Dr. Betül BOZKURT; Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinan ZEHİR, the Head of Hospital and Assist. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Tayfun ŞAHİNER.
Prof. Dr. Betül Bozkurt and Assist. Prof. Dr. İbrahim Tayfun ŞAHİNER, teaching staff in General Surgery gave the information that the surgical method was applied to two patients for the first time in our city, Çorum. They went on to say that the patients were recovered from the cancer disease and at the same time they had breast aesthetic surgery. In their explanation of Prof. Dr. Bozkurt ve Asst. Prof. Dr. Şahiner, aforementioned surgery operation was implemented to two patients aged 38 and 65 according to the oncoplastic surgical principles and at the same session cancerous breast tissue was removed from the body and the patients received their new breast tissue and health with breast reconstruction.
Prof. Dr. Reha Metin Alkan thanked all hospital attendants especially Deputy Dean of Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Mete Dolapçı, Prof. Dr. Betul Bozkurt, Hospital Administrator Asst. Assoc. Dr. Sinan Zehir, Asst. Assoc. Dr. Tayfun Ibrahim Sahiner and he said that our province is on the way to become an advanced reference center for breast diseases thanks to valuable works of our university faculty members.
Deputy Dean of Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Mete Dolapçı said “The academic staff who has oncoplastic breast surgery training found in some European clinics is pleased and proud to work within our faculty in terms of our people and university. Çorum is being a center of health among the environment provinces. Patients outside the province were referred to our university hospital and their treatments are being made successfully.”