Department of Medical Oncology at Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute and Research Center offers state of the art treatment modalities including bone marrow transplant. There is a substantial patient workload, which is taken care of by six highly qualified and experienced medical oncologists and one paediatric oncologist, which work full time for this Institute only. Regular teaching programme are being under taken to train the resident staff and two students registered for superspecility degree (DNB) in Medical Oncology. Facilities are available to undertake out patients chemotherapy in the specialized day care units. Specially trained nursing staff assists in administration of chemotherapy to both daycares as well as in patients. In order to make administration of chemotherapy safe and more patients friendly, use of central catheters and ports is routine in the department.

Since the establishment of bone marrow transplantation facilities last year 5 successful autologous stem cell transplants have been carried out with a very cost effective package. The transplant unit is a very modern facility with rooms for strict isolation that are looked after a big team of dedicated nursing staff. The department is backed by a very modern and highly efficient blood bank offering facility for blood and blood components including platelets phaeresis round the clock. A large number of paediatric patients are also being treated at this hospital this department is backed by the excellent radiotherapy and surgical oncology departments for multimodality treatment. The excellent radiological and imaging services, nuclear medicine services all together strengthen the diagnostic as well as supporting care. In few words, the state of the art treatment is being offered to patients at a reasonable cost.