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Cyclone-30, the biggest cyclotron in India for medical application became operational in at VECC, Kolkata. It is under the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and will be commissioned in 2019. This facility will provide for affordable radio isotopes and related radiopharmaceuticals for diagnostic and therapeutic use for cancer care. It will also have export potential for isotopes used for breast cancer diagnosis and prostate cancer treatment, respectively.