Onco Surgery, is a cancer care that focuses on using surgery to Identify the stage of cancer. Onco Surgeon can also perform palliative surgeries to assist control pain, increase a patient’s comfort level and manage cancer-related symptoms and side effects.
Whether a patient surgery depends on factors like the sort , size, location, grade and stage of the tumour, also as issues associated with the patient health condition, based on age, Immunity and other medical conditions.
Mostly patients have cancer surgery integrate with other treatments, like chemotherapy, radiotherapy and/or hormone therapy. Nonsurgical treatments could also be administered before surgery (advantageous therapy) or after surgery (adjutant therapy) to assist prevent cancer growth, metastasis or recurrence.
Depending on the sort of cancer, the dimensions of the tumour and its location, surgery could also be performed using minimally invasive techniques, like laparoscopy or robotic surgery. Other conditions are open surgeries, which are more invasive and have larger incisions. A surgical oncologist may go with other doctors and clinicians to assist reduce pain and other side effects and speed recovery from surgery.
Procedure:
This is the list of surgeries performed in the Oncosurgery unit
Stomach Cancer: Distal, proximal and total radical gastrectomy including lymph node clearance.
Colorectal Cancer: Open and laparoscopic right and left hemicolectomy, abdomino-perineal resection, Low anterior resection with or without diversion colostomy.
Breast Cancer: Breast conservative surgery, reconstruction, oncoplasty, sentinel node biopsy, mastectomy
Thyroid Cancer: Hemithyroidectomy and total thyroidectomy
Head and Neck Cancer: Wide excision, mandibulectomy, marginal mandibulectomy, maxillectomy, different types of neck dissections and reconstructions with locoregional flaps and free-flap reconstruction.
Uterine Cancer: Most women with uterine cancer will have surgery. The type of surgery you have depends mainly on the stage of the cancer.
Ovarian cancer: Primary or interval cytoreductive surgery.
Cancer Screening Program:
We do routine cancer screening services on a regular basis
Special blood test
CT scan
Endoscopy / Colonoscopy
Pap smear
Hysteroscopy
Sri Ragavendra Multi Speciality Hospital has a world class operating theatre complex with inbuilt imaging and surgical planning technology, advanced CT scan for soft tissue imaging and surgical planning and also a dedicated wound care clinic with nurse follow-ups.