Medical Oncology:

Cancer is considered a systemic disease and thus most patients

registered at SRC & Super specialty are seen by the department of
Medical Oncology, which deals with systemic therapies in the form
of chemotherapy targeted therapies, hormonal therapies, immune
therapies (monoclonal antibodies, check-point inhibitors) and
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The department is
committed to offering efficient and compassionate care to both
adult and pediatric patients with cancer. Unlike surgery and
radiation therapy, which is usually done only once or very rarely
twice, cancer patients needing systemic therapy not only get
multiple cycles (4 to 6 cycles and up to 3 years of therapy in Acute
Lymphoblastic Leukemia) of therapy upfront, but they can also
receive multiple (up to 6 or even 8) lines of treatment in presence
of resistant / progressive or relapsed disease. Systemic therapies
are not only given before local therapies (neo-adjuvant setting);
along with surgery/ radiation therapy; after local therapies
(adjuvant setting) and as maintenance therapies in curative
settings, but also as palliative therapies in advanced cancers to
improve the quality of life.
Radiation Oncology:
The current facilities offer modern sophisticated, state-of-the-art
treatments like 3-D conformal radiotherapy (3-D CRT), intensity-
modulated radiotherapy with image guidance &
radiosurgery (IMRT & IMRS, with IGRT), Stereotactic
radiotherapy/ radiosurgery (SRS, SRT) with appropriate motion
management, in addition to conventional radiotherapy. Intra-
cranial Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery are delivered
using the "Brain-Lab" system comprising of micro-multileaf
collimator (mMLC) and a dedicated planning system.
The expertise and experience of the motivated faculty renders us
with the ability to deliver high precision, conformal radiotherapy
with state of the art facilities. We have the experience to deliver
complex radiotherapy procedures like TSET (Total Skin Electron
Therapy), TBI and Adaptive radiotherapy. In addition, the
physicians are specialized by disease site in the body and form an
integral part of the disease management groups (DMGs).
The department can boast of being an active brachytherapy facility
with experience in practically all sites of the body.The efforts are
aided by modern treatment planning systems.
A stringent quality assurance (QA) program and features like the
"Online Portal Imaging and online CT imaging (both KVCT AND
MVCT)" ensure efficient and accurate radiotherapy treatment
delivery and verification. With the newer Linear Accelerators, this
is possible.

Surgical Oncology
From the beginning Department of Surgery has played a vital role.
With a strong heritage the department has continued to evolve
while restructuring to address the challenges of specialization and
yet maintaining the core values of Service, Research and
Education. Operative services are comprehensive for cancers at all
sites and are offered both at SRC & Super specialty. The
department will perform both major and minor procedures. As part
of the hospital’s ethos of encouraging multidisciplinary
management of cancers each surgical specialty also participates in
their respective DMG (Disease Management Group) thus
enhancing overall patient care
Specific unique strengths of the department include an increasing
application of minimally invasive surgery, skull-base procedures,
major vascular replacements, limb salvage, post-oncologic
reconstruction and micro vascular surgery.

The Department of Surgery has 4 major divisions:

1. Surgical Oncology
2. Head and Neck Oncology
3. Gynecologic Oncology
4. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery