Empowering Hope: A Journey to Cure Cancer by Surgery
Surgery play crucial role in treatment of cancer. The goal of cancer surgery is to remove the entire cancer.
This website is an excellent resource for patients and their families for smooth journey in cancer care. Through this website our aim is to provide information for early identification and effective treatment of cancer as per Internantional guidelines (NCCN, ESMO, NCG). We’ll explain surgeries for different cancer types, associated care and combined care by Surgical Oncologist, Medical oncologist and Radiation Oncologist.
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Services
Oncology Surgery
There have been several innovations on how the treatments have been imparted to cancer patients over the years. Surgery has been moving from a more radical approach towards organ preservation.
Personalized Care
Doctor controls treatment via care guided by a customized care plan. Progressed is tracked through various reports which are generated from various tests and kept as patients health records.
Second Opinion
When you’re facing cancer treatment, it’s normal to wonder if another doctor might offer a different treatment. Getting a second opinion can help you feel more sure about your diagnosis and treatment.
About CANCER
What is Cancer?
Cancer is uncontrolled proliferation of transformed cells in any part of the body. Neoplasm or tumor are used variably to describe any swelling or new growth. Benign growths don’t have potential to spread to other organs or parts of the body while malignancy or malignant growths have uncontrolled proliferation and metastatic potential.
Transformation is multistep process with genetic alterations by which normal cells acquire malignant potential, uncontrolled proliferation capacity and capacity to spread to other parts of the body (metastasis)
Areas of Expertise
Tobacco
Family History Age
Excessive Alcohol
Human Papilloma Virus
Covid-19 Contagion
What are risk factors for Cancer?
Cancer is a multifactorial disease caused by an interplay of many factors. some factors can be controlled while others are beyond control.
- Gentic factots 5-10% Cases
- Lifestyle Factors like tobacco, alcohol
- Environmental like radiation, pollution
- Age
- Obesity
Surgical Oncology: Cancer Surgery
Surgery is best chance of cure in most of solid organ tumors. It’s a fct that 80% of cancer patients will require surgery during their course of disease yet only 25% were able to receive safe and effective surgery in time. Roles played by Surgical Oncologist include but not limited to:
- Diagnosis and staging of cancer in most accurate way
- Resection of cancer with adequate margins and lymph nodes to achieve best possible cure
- Prophylactic surgery in hereditary syndromes
- Surgery for limited operable metastatic disease
- Relief of symptoms and maintaining quality of life
Oncosurgery is curative in intent, cost effective and has shorter treatment duration compared to other treatments. Surgical Oncology is an integral part of multidisciplinary tumor board meeting, and its approaches should be discussed with each patient. Surgical oncologists should lead multidisciplinary teams in care of majority of solid tumours.
