Role of Surgical Oncology in Treating Cancer

Cancer is the 2nd most common cause of mortality. With increasing incidence of cancers and cancer management becoming more complex day by day, we at Surgical Oncology, Kauvery Hospital aim to provide treatment while keeping with our mission to make great healthcare affordable.

Surgery is one of the most important aspects in the management of cancer.

Surgical Oncology

Surgical Oncology at Kauvery Hospital offers services committed to providing personalised care, individualised to the patient using the latest surgical technologies and techniques which aim to improve patient outcomes with the best quality of life possible.

We provide surgical treatment based on the latest evidence-based guidelines incorporating multidisciplinary approaches. Our role with surgery includes diagnosis with a biopsy to stage cancer, providing cures with radical extirpation of tumours keeping in mind the quality of life and ensuring all methods to aim cure while conserving organs and functions as much as feasible.

We perform around 50 surgeries a month including surgeries for breast cancer, gynaecological cancer, head and neck, gastrointestinal, genitourinary cancers and musculoskeletal cancer.

Breast cancer is the commonest cancer in urban women. It can be cured when diagnosed early with appropriate treatment methods which include biopsy, wide excision in breast cancer surgery including onco-mammoplasty and reconstructions to maintain form and function, mastectomy to remove the entire breast where necessary, sentinel axillary node biopsy and axillary dissection.

Surgery in gynaecologic cancers is usually offered with minimally invasive techniques of laparoscopy (and robotic approaches coming shortly). Surgeries performed include surgical staging, cytoreductions, radical hysterectomy, exenterations in more advanced disease and HIPEC. GI malignancies are likewise treated with laparoscopic approaches like gastrectomies, anterior and low-anterior resections, ultra-low anterior resections and sphincter preserving approaches.

Genito-urinary cancers are likewise operated on with minimal access techniques. Musculoskeletal malignancies are treated with limb salvage techniques, using resections and reconstructions with state- of-the-art prosthesis and plastic surgical techniques.

In patients with advanced and incurable diseases, we focus on improving the quality of life with procedures to alleviate pain and provide nutrition and feeding with procedures like PEG, jejunostomies and pain alleviation procedures.