Medical oncology

Modern anticancer drugs have helped to mount a major attack against cancer. Many cancers like blood cancer (leukemias), lymphomas and other childhood cancers which were uniformly fatal twenty-five years ago can now be completely cured or effectively contained by these drugs.

A combined treatment using anticancer drugs along with surgery and/or radiotherapy achieves a greater therapeutic effect. The expert team of medical oncologists at the TMH performed the first bone marrow transplantation in India (1983) on a young girl of 10 years to cure her from leukemia which was potentially lethal. Bone marrow transplantation is now performed routinely at TMH. Members