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Department of Oncology, Radiology Diagnostics and Therapy and Radiation Medicine Address: R. Kupchynskiy st., 8, Ternopil, 46023 Tel: (0352) 268280 Head of the Department – Doctor of Medicine, Prof. I. Y. Halaychuk Staff of the Department: 4 Professors, 3 Associate Professors, 5 Assistant Professors, 1 postgraduate student, 1 resident doctor, 1 laboratory assistant. Department of Oncology, Radiology and Radiation Medicine was founded in January 1983 on the basis 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 to 1982. Associate Professor M. V. Skybenko, MD was in charge of the Oncology course from 1970 to 1982. From 1983 Professor H. S. Moroz was in charge of the newly formed Department of Oncology, Radiology and Radiation Medicine. In 1994-2006 the Department was headed by Professor V.I. Dryzhak. Doctor of Medicine, Professor I.Y. Galaychuk has been working as the Head of the Department since 2006. Education Students of Medical Faculty and Faculty of Dentistry, Institute of Nursing, as well as doctors of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education get theoretical and practical knowledge at the Department. Teaching process is provided by highly skilled instructors on the following subjects: «Oncology» – for the 5th and 6th year students of Medical Faculty, internship doctors and students of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education; «Nursing in oncology» – for the nurses and nurses-bachelors of intramural, extramural and distance-learning study programmes; «Radiology» – for the 3d year students of Medical Faculty and the Faculty of Dentistry, internship doctors of the Postgraduate Education Faculty; «Radiation medicine» – for the 5th year students of Medical Faculty and the 4th year students of the Faculty of Dentistry, internship doctors and students of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education; «Palliative medicine» – for the nurses with master’s degree of Institute of Nursing. Subjects are taught in Ukrainian, English and Russian languages for the students of Medical Faculty and the Faculty of Dentistry. Methodological instructions for the subjects are written in three languages. Publications: Dryzhak V.I. et al. Viral Hepatitis and Cancer of Liver. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2010. – 188 p. Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych М.І. Breast Cancer. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2005. – 152 p Galaychuk I.Y. Clinical Oncology. Part I: Textbook. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2003. – 276 p. Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych М.І., Vayda A.R. Breast Cancer (multimedia CD). – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2002. – 318 МВ. Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych М.І. Nursing in Oncology. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2001.– 222 p. Dryzhak V.I. Hormones and Breast Cancer. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 2002. – 172 p. Dryzhak V.I., Dombrovych М.І., Zahurska N.O., Korytskyi H.I. Endotoxicosis in Clinical Oncology. – Ternopil: Ukrmedknyha, 1999. – 128 p. Research Researches of the Department staff are aimed at improvement of diagnostics and treatment of patients with malignant tumors of various localizations. Since 2009 scientific and research work of the Department staff on the topic “Optimization of lymphogenic metastases diagnostics and treatment modalities for the patients with rectal cancer, breast cancer and skin melanoma” has been accomplished. The following scientific topics have been 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. Main scientific achievements of the Department For the years of Department’s existence its staff have prepared and defended 4 theses for academic degree of Doctor of Medicine and 10 theses for academic degree of Candidate of Medicine (equivalent to PhD): Halaychuk 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. Zhulkevych 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 researches, 15 patents for the inventions were received. Clinical work More than 20 percent of surgeries are performed by the specialists of the Department. These are the most complicated surgeries on the abdominal cavity organs and chest cavity organs, performed by the surgeons of the highest qualification: Professors V. Dryzhak, H. Moroz, I. Halaychuk, Associate Professors Y. Uglyar, M. Dombrovych and L. Shkrobot. They are also curators of the Regional Oncological Dispensary Surgical Units, where clinical rounds are done on a weekly basis, they hold conferences and conciliums. Assistants of the Department take an active part 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. International cooperation, conferences The staff of the Department participated in organization of all-Ukrainian theoretical and practical conferences on the basis of the University Congress Center “Chervona Kalyna”: 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: The 7th European Conference of Clinical Oncology (Jerusalem, 1993); The 7th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology (Heidelberg, D, 1994); Health Education Authority - Melanoma '95 Meeting (Brighton, UK, 1995); The 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Education, Cleveland, OH, USA, 1999; The 14th Annual Meeting of European Association for Cancer Education, Antwerp, 2001; The 8th World Congress on Skin Cancers, Zurich, 2001; The 2nd Congress, World Federation of Surgical Oncology Societies, Napoli, Italy, 2001; World Cancer Congress, Geneva, Switzerland, 2008; The 21st International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment (ICACT), Paris, F; 02.2010.