India, Sept. 20 -- Widely recognised for her brilliance in the field of oncopathology, Dr Anita Borges, 78, passed away in Gorakhpur on Thursday evening, following a sudden myocardial infarction. Her body was flown to Delhi on Thursday night and from there to Mumbai on Friday night, where it will be kept till the family decides on the funeral date.

Borges was in Gorakhpur to teach a class on pathology with her longtime colleague and pathology professor Dr Sumeet Gujral, under the Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH) Travelling School of Oncopathology. The programme, with 15 hubs across India, was designed to take oncology training and diagnostic expertise from TMH, Mumbai, to medical students and doctors in smaller centres.

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