Specialities

Surgical Oncology

The Department of Surgical Oncology at Cancer Institute has a team of highly experienced surgeons. Cancers in each part of the body vary highly from each other. The surgical treatment therefore should be considerably different from each other. That is why at Cancer Institute, we have separated the surgical oncologists based on the cancers they operate upon. We have highly specialized organ specific surgical oncologists who routinely perform simple to complex surgeries. Thus if a patient has cancer in the pancreas, he'll be treated only by a gastric onco surgeon. The Department has tertiary level support of state-of-the art operation theatres and technology & equipment, Intensive Care Units, highly trained technicians, nursing team apart from Anesthetists, Intensivists and other support staff. The specialists from the Department of Surgical Oncology perform surgical procedures for the most cancers, such as:

Medical oncology

Department of Medical Oncology at Cancer Institute provides state-of-the art services in the management of cancer through the use of chemotherapy and allied drugs and Blood and Marrow Transplantation. The Department is serviced by highly qualified and dedicated full-time medical oncologists. The Department has expertise in the management of hematological malignancies such as acute and chronic leukemia, lymphomas, multiple myelomas, all solid tumours and Germ Cell Tumours. At Cancer Institute, a state-of-the-art Blood and Marrow Transplant unit is dedicated solely to the care of transplant patients and their families. We perform both autologous (patient's own cells) and allogeneic (matched donor cells) transplants to treat many different types of cancer, including Hodgkin's Disease, Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma, Multiple Myeloma, Testicular cancer, Leukemia (acute and chronic) and Aplastic anemia. Our experts are actively engaged in research to find newer avenues to treat cancer, including graft engineering and immunotherapy (using body's own immune system). The interdisciplinary team includes medical oncologists/ hematologists, pathologists, nurses, nutritionists, social workers, and genetic counselors.

Radiation Oncology

The Department of radiation oncology houses the machine, making Cancer Institute the most advanced radiotherapy unit anywhere in the world. The modality provides radiation therapy treatments for both adults and children in a congenial atmosphere.

External radiotherapy/ Teletherapy with TrueBeamTM STx:

1. 2D convention planning
2. Electron beam treatment
3. 3Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy (3DCRT)
4. Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)
5. Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT)
6. RapidArc (Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy)
7. Gating technique for tumours that move with respiration
8. Gated RapidArc
9. Stereotactic treatment like
   • Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SRT)
   • Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT)

Interventional Oncology services

The Department of Interventional Oncology is fully equipped to fulfil all the imaging requirements for screening, early diagnosis, accurate staging and regular assessment of disease status in cancer patients. It offers new and expanded opportunities to investigate cancer therapies that use imaging technology to diagnose and treat localized cancers in ways that are precisely targeted and minimal or non-invasive. The Centre's goal is localised treatment and drug delivery. And it achieves it by use of advanced imaging technologies, including cutting-edge Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and Computed Tomography (CT) - combined with the capability to use all three technologies simultaneously to navigate a therapeutic device through the body

Radio-embolisation delivers microscopic radioactive beads to the tumour.

Bland embolisation can block the blood supply; and chemo-embolisation combines this technique with chemotherapeutic drug delivery.

Transarterial chemotherapy allows chemotherapeutic drugs to be delivered in high doses directly to the site of the tumour.

Bone Marrow Transplant

Head & Neck Cancer