Neuro-Oncology:

Neuro-oncologist at Yashoda Cancer Institute specializes in the treatment of various pediatric and adult nervous system tumors. Multidisciplinary teams of specialists including neuro-oncologist, neurosurgeon and neurophysician provide comprehensive evaluation and treatment of patients with these tumors.

Physicians from this unit work as part of an integrated team of specialists, who provide efficient, coordinated care for people with tumors of the brain. The objective of all treatment is to completely eradicate the tumor with the available armamentarium of surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy.

Yashoda cancer institute can be considered as a comprehensive neuro-oncology centre as it has state of the art neurosurgery facilities with human expertise, all highly conformal techniques such as IMRT, Stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT) and strerotactic radiosurgery (SRS- X knife) facilities are available. The institute is also equipped with physiotherapy and rehabilitation clinic as well as psychiatrist/psychologist counselling facilities which is a must for any comprehensive centre.

Some of the tumors treated at this unit are as follows: