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Department of Oncology, Radiology Diagnostics and Therapy and Radiation Medicine
Address: R. Kupchynskogo st., 8, Ternopil, 46023
Tel: (0352) 268280
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Department Staff:3 professors, 2 associate professors, 3 assistant professors, 1 aspirant, 1 laboratory technician.
Head of the department – Igor Y. Galaychuk
Department of Oncology, Radiology and Radiation Medicine was founded
in January 1983 on the base of two courses – Oncology and Roentgenology with Medical Radiology.
Associate Professor I.T. Tsyliurik, MD was in charge of the Roentgenology and Medical Radiology course
from 1960 until 1982. Associate Professor M.V. Skybenko, MD was in charge of the Oncology course from 1970
until 1982. Since 1983 Professor G.S. Moroz was in charge of the newly formed Department of Oncology, Radiology
and Radiation Medicine. In 1994-2006 the Department was headed by PhD, Professor V.I. Dryzhak. Doctor of Medical
Sciences, Professor I.Y. Galaychuk is the head of the Department since 2006.
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Educational work of the Department
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Students of medical and dental faculties, educational and scientific institute of nursing, as well as
doctors of postgraduate education faculty get the theoretical and practical knowledge at the Department.
Teaching process is provided by highly skilled teachers on the following subjects:
- «oncology» – for students of 5 and 6 years of medical faculty, internship doctors and students of postgraduate education faculty;
- «nursing in oncology» – for nurses and nurses-bachelors of day, evening and distance teaching programmes;
- «radiology» – for students of 3 years of medical and dental faculties, internship doctors of postgraduate education faculty;
- «radiation medicine» – for students of 5 year of medical faculty and 4 year of dental faculty, internship doctors and students of postgraduate education faculty;
- «palliative medicine» – for nurses with master’s degree of educational and scientific institute of nursing.
Subjects are taught in Ukrainian, English and Russian languages
for students of medical and dental faculties. Methodological support of subjects is done in three languages.
Education publications:
- Dryzhak V.I. et al. Viral Hepatitis and Cancer of Liver. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2010. – 188 p.
- Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych Ì.². Breast Cancer. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2005. – 152 p
- Galaychuk I.Y. Clinical Oncology. Part I: Textbook. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2003. – 276 p.
- Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych Ì.²., Vayda A.R. Breast Cancer (multimedia CD). – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2002. – 318 ÌÂ.
- Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych Ì.². Nursing in Oncology. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2001.– 222 p.
- Dryzhak V.I. Hormones and Breast Cancer. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2002. – 172 p.
- Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych Ì.²., Zahurska N.O., Korytskyi H.I. Endotoxicosis in Clinical Oncology. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 1999. – 128 p.
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Research interests of the Department’s staff
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Topics of scientific research of the department are aimed at improvement of diagnostics
and treatment of patients with malignant tumors of various localizations.
Since 2009 departmental scientific and research work on topic “Optimization of lymphogenic
metastases diagnostics and treatment modalities for patients with rectal cancer, breast
cancer and skin melanoma” has been accomplished.
In the previous years such scientific topics were accomplished :
- Role of B and C hepatitis viruses and other cause factors in hepatocarcinogenesis;
- Prevention and treatment of hepatic failure in patients with obstructive jaundice of tumorous genesis;
- Influence of laser therapy on body’s resistibility in combined treatment of malignant tumors;
- Study of antigenic, hormonal and immunologic status of patients with malignant tumors of main localizations;
- Development of united topographic and functional radionuclide in vivo and in vitro methods for diagnostics and rehabilitation of patients with tumors of chest and abdominal cavities;
- Development of complex diagnostics of tuberculosis and lung cancer on the basis of clinicoradiological, radionuclide, instrumental and laboratory methods of diagnostics.
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Main scientific achievements of the Department
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For the years of Department’s existence its staff have prepared and defended 4 theses for
academic degrees of Doctor of Medical Science (DSc) and 10 theses for academic degrees of
Candidate of Medical Science (equivalent to PhD):
- Galaychuk I.Y. Skin melanoma: optimization of diagnosis and combined and complex treatment of the patients. – Manuscript for degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Oncology. – Kyiv, 2005. – 41 p.
- Zhulkevich I.V. Condition of bone mineral density at defeat haemopoetic and haemostatic systems: forecasting patomorfosis and differential methods of preventive maintenance. - Manuscript for degree Doctor of Philosophy in Haematology and Transfusiology. – Kyiv, 2003. – 32 p.
- Dombrovych M.I. Low-intensive Laser Therapy in Patients with Colorectal Cancer in Early Postoperative Period. – Kiev, 1998. – 16 p.
- Zagurska N.O. Application of Indirect Electrochemical Blood Oxidation Method in Treatment of Endogenous Intoxication Syndrome in Patients with Carcinomas of the Lungs and Large Intestine. Kiev, 1998. – 16 p.
- Leskiv I.M. Radial methods in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of mechanical jaundice.-.Manuscript for degree of Doctor of Medicine in Radial Diagnosis and Radiotherapy. – Kiev, 1996. – 20 p.
- Uhlyar Yu.V. Application of magneto-laser and enteroabsorbtion in patients with obstructive jaundice. Manuscript for degree of Doctor of Medicine in Surgery. – Ternopil, 2001. – 18 p.
- Shkrobot L.V. Surgical tactics in occlusion-stenotic lesion of the extracranial arteries, terminal part of the aorta and magestral arteries of low extremities. Ternopol, 2005. – 21 p.
- Vaida A.R. Pathogenetic Substantiation of the Surgical Correction of the Hepatic Hemodynamic Malfunction in Obstructive Jaundice (Experimento-clinical Investigation). Ternopol, 2000. – 19 p.
More than 300 scientific articles were published subsequent
to the results of the scientific research, 15 patents for inventions were received.
More than 20 percent of surgeries are performed by specialists of the Department.
These are the most complicated surgeries on abdominal cavity organs and chest cavity
organs, performed by surgeons of the highest qualification: Professors V. Dryzhak, G.
Moroz, I. Galaychuk, Associate Professors Y. Uglyar, M. Dombrovych and L. Shkrobot. They
are also curators of the Regional Oncological Dispensary Surgical Departments, where clinical
rounds are done on a weekly basis, they hold conferences and conciliums. Assistants of the
Department actively participate in roentgenologic and ultrasound diagnostic examinations.
Specialists of the Department consult more than 1000 patients yearly; implement new methods
of diagnostics and treatment of patients.
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International cooperation, conferences
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Staff of the Department participated in organization of all-Ukrainian research and practice
conferences on the base of University Congress Center “Chervona Kalyna” (“Red Guelder Rose”):
- 2004 - Accompaning therapy in treatment of oncological patients;
- 2007 - Methods of preclinical diagnosis of regional lymphogenic metastases;
- 2009 - Efficient chemotherapy for oncological patients.
SPECIAL TRAININGS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
Prof. I.Y. Galaychuk:
- Visiting Fulbright Scholar, University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre / Cancer Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, USA – 1999-2000;
- Fellow of International Pediatric Oncology Outreach Program, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA – 09.2002;
- Lymphatic Mapping and Sentinel Node Biopsy Course (ESSO Scholarship), Amsterdam, NL – 05.1998;
- Good Clinical Practice in Medical Oncology – Theoretical and Practical Course (granted by ESMO), Copenhagen, DK – 11.1997.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO);
- European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO);
- European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO);
- European Association for Cancer Research (EACR);
- European Association for Cancer Education (EACE);
- Akademio Internacia de la Sciencoj (AIS, San-Marino),
- Universala Esperanto-Asocio (UEA).
PRESENTATIONS AT SCIENTIFIC INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:
- 7th European Conference of Clinical Oncology (Jerusalem, 1993);
- 7th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (Heidelberg, D, 1994);
- Health Education Authority - Melanoma '95 Meeting (Brighton, UK, 1995);
- 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Education, Cleveland, OH, USA, 1999;
- 14th Annual Meeting of European Association for Cancer Education, Antwerp, 2001;
- 8th World Congress on Skin Cancers, Zurich, 2001;
- 2nd Congress, World Federation of Surgical Oncology Societies, Napoli, Italy, 2001;
- World Cancer Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008;
- 21st International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment (ICACT), Paris, F; 02.2010.
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