Cancer Care - Oncology
The department of Oncology having comprehensive state-of-the-art facilities and a coordinated multidisciplinary approach for the treatment of patients suering from cancer.
Medical Oncology: Chemotherapy (also called chemo) is a type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells. Chemotherapy works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells, which grow and divide quickly. But it can also harm healthy cells that divide quickly, Damage to healthy cells may cause side eects. Often, side eects get better or go away after chemotherapy is over. There have been several innovations in how there treatments have been imparted to cancer patients. Surgery has been moving from a more radical approach towards organ preservation, shorter hospital stay, less post-operative morbidity and minimally invasive and robotic surgeries. The intent of surgery can be to cure, manage or down stage cancer or symptom control. This is usually the primary treatment of choice in many early stage solid malignancies.
Radiation Oncology: Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation to kill cancer cells by damaging their DNA directly or create charged particles (free radicals) within the cells that can in turn damage the DNA.
X-rays, gamma rays, and charged particles are types of radiation used for cancer treatment. The radiation used for cancer treatment may come from a machine outside the body (external radiotherapy), or it may come from radioactive material placed in the body near Tumour cells (brachytherapy) or injected into the bloodstream).