Radiation Oncology

Introduction

Department of Radiation Oncology is known to be one of the oldest and biggest department in Northern India serving the rural and urban population. First Telecobalt was installed in 1960. Since its inception, the department has been a high-volume centre and is running a robust academic MD program, the department started its MD course curriculum around 1980 for the post graduate students to generate high quality manpower. Every year about 10000 cases are registered with IPD ranging to 7000. The facilities made available to the patients include External beam Radiotherapy, outpatient services (OPD) that ensure patients receive timely consultations and follow-ups, in patient services for intensive care treatments tailored to their needs etc. Multidisciplinary tumour board meetings are held in collaboration with Cancer Surgery, General Surgery, Intervention Radiology, ENT, Radiology, Gynaecology and Pathology department for the best of care of the patients. The department efficiently provides round the clock in patient department services to the admitted patients. There is a 4 bedded day care which runs during the OPD hours. There is dedicated 24 bedded male ward and 23 bedded female wards for admitted patients with well trained paramedical staff aided for managing the radiation toxicities, chemotherapy, procedures and conservative management. The department believes in conducting cost effective, well structured thesis and clinical research programmes.

The department is soon to be equipped with Linac, CT simulator and HDR Brachytherapy machine. The vision and aim is to provide advanced, quality assured, cost effective and precision radiotherapy to maximum number of cancer patients.

Infrastructure

Posts

Faculty-10
Medical Physicists-4
Senior Residents-5
MD Radiation Oncology (PG seats)-6
Radiation Technologist - 15
Supporting Staff

IPD-

a) Male ward- 26 beds

b) Female ward-23 beds

OPD day care-

5 beds for chemotherapy, procedures and conservative management of patients on OPD basis

Equipments

1)Bhabhatron Telecobalt machine

2)High Energy Linear accelerator (under construction)

3)CT simulator (under installation)

4)X ray simulator (under procurement process)

5)HDR Brachytherapy (under procurement process)

Multidisciplinary Tumour board meeting

Serial number	TBM	Day	Timing
1.	Cancer Surgery and Radiology	Thursday	12 noon to 1 pm
2.	Gynaecology	Thursday	12 noon to 1 pm
3.	General Surgery and Pathology	Friday	12 noon to 1 pm

Faculty
Sr. No.	Name	Designation
1	Dr (Prof.) Vikas Yadav	Head of Department
2	Dr (Prof.) Rajeev Sharma	Ex. Additional Medical Superintendent
3	Dr (Prof.) Kapil Suri	Additional Medical Superintendent
4	Dr (Prof.) Jaspreet Kaur	Professor
5	Dr (Prof.) Akhilesh Mishra	Professor
6	Dr Abhidha	Assistant Professor
7	Dr Ratika Gupta	Assistant Professor
8	Dr Astha Srivastava	Assistant Professor
9	Dr Asmita Kulshrestha	Assistant Professor (Contractual)

Faculty

Serial no.	Room no.	Faculty	Designation	OPD days
1.	266	Dr (Prof.) Vikas Yadav	Head of Department	Every working day
2.	267	Dr (Prof.) Rajeev Sharma	Ex. Additional Medical Superintendent	Every working day
3.	272	Dr (Prof.) Kapil Suri	Additional Medical Superintendent	Every working day
4.	271	Dr (Prof.) Jaspreet Kaur	Professor	Every working day
5.	264	Dr (Prof.) Akhilesh Mishra	Professor	Every working day
6.	263	Dr Abhidha	Assistant Professor	Every working day
7.	270	Dr Ratika Gupta	Assistant Professor	Every working day
8.	262	Dr Astha Srivastava	Assistant Professor	Every working day
9.	273	Dr Asmita Kulshrestha	Assistant Professor (Contractual)	Every working day

Medical Physicists

Serial no.	Name
1.	Mr. Pawan Kumar Singh
2.	Miss Deeksha Jaiswal
3.	Mr Dinesh Kumar
4.	Mrs. Shailja Chauhan (Contractual)

Location - 2^nd Floor, D wing, New OPD building

OPD days -Monday -Friday

New cases Registration - Monday- Friday (9 am-11 am)

Old cases Registration - Monday- Friday (9 am-11.30 am)

Radiotherapy planning day-Monday and Thursday

Research and Publications (January 2024-December 2024)

Jawale D, Bhoj P, Pandagle A, Sharma A, Kulshrestha A. An Unusual Occurrence of Tamoxifen-Induced Maculopathy in a Young Woman With Hormone Receptor-Positive Post-mastectomy Breast Carcinoma. Cureus. 2024 Jul 14;16(7):e64545. doi: 10.7759/cureus.64545.

⁠Kulshrestha Asmita, Jawale Deeksha et al. Choroidal Ocular Metastasis in a Treated Case of Post-Mastectomy Breast Cancer Patient: A Rare Event. Annals of Oncology Research and Therapy. 2024 June (accepted)

Gupta S, Gupta R et al. Insights into neoadjuvant chemotherapy efficacy for stage 1B3 locally advanced cervical cancer: case series. Int J Reprod Contracept Obstet Gynecol. 2024 May;13(5):1281-1284

Kumar W, Yadav V, Kaur J, et al. (August 27, 2024) Concomitant Boost With Six Fractions of Radiation a Week in Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer Patients: A Prospective Study. Cureus 16(8): e67916. DOI 10.7759/cureus.67916

Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of Liver – A Rare Entity - Winsome Kumar, Anu Agrawal, Vandana Malik, Ratika Gupta, Navaudhayam Ranganatha - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.33361

Gupta S, Gupta R, Motwani V, Kalwaniya DS. Adjuvant therapy for endometrial cancer in the era of molecular classification. J Mid-life Health 2024;15:142-52.

The Impact Of Human Papilloma Virus Genotype On Clinical Response To Chemoradiotherapy In Patients Of Carcinoma Cervix - Ankush Gupta, Anu Agrawal, Vikas Yadav, Kapil Suri, Jaspreet Kaur, Ratika Gupta, Sheetal Arora - IJFMR Volume 6, Issue 6, November-December 2024. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i06.33480

Das Subhrajit, Agrawal Anu, Mishra Akhilesh. Primary Small Cell Carcinoma of Hypopharynx-A Case Report of a Rare Tumor from a Tertiary Care Hospital in India. International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research. 2024;6(2). doi:https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i02.17239

Rahul Dhama, Winsome Kumar, Anu Agrawal, Navaudhayam Ranganathan, Akhilesh Mishra. Clinical Presentation and Treatment Strategies for Laryngeal Neuroendocrine Carcinoma: Insights from a Rare Case. International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research. 2024;6(4). doi:https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25609

GUPTA D, AGRAWAL A, KAUR J, YADAV V. Flagellate dermatitis: Complication of Bleomycin Therapy – A Case Report. IJFMR - International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research. 2024;6(4). doi:https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2024.v06i04.25887

Das S, Navaudhayam R, Agrawal A, T R, Kaur J, Yadav V. Basal cell adenocarcinoma of parotid gland: a case report of a rare salivary gland neoplasm. Journal of Cancer Research and Reviews. 2024;(0):1. doi:https://doi.org/10.5455/jcrr.20240626120801

Aashita, N., Yadav, V., Sharma, R., Mishra, H., Choudhury, A. R., & Thakur, P. (2024). Mucosal melanoma: A series of seven cases and review of literature. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics, 20(6), 1775–1780. https://doi.org/10.4103/jcrt.jcrt_1682_23

Events


Donation of 10 Multi Para Monitors to Safdarjung Hospital under supervision of Dr. Kapil Suri, Addl. M.S.	Stone Laying Ceremony of Radiation Bunker for High Energy Linear Accelerator

Courses

There are 5 NMC recognised sanctioned seats for MD Radiation Oncology for teaching, learning, training and evaluation and is the centre for conducting DNB Examination.

Teaching and Training

The Department is involved in robust training of post graduate students for MD Radiation Oncology under the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.

PG Lectures/Seminars/Case discussions

Serial no.	Day	Time	Class
1.	Tuesday and Friday	9am-10 am	Clinical Oncology and Radiobiology
2.	Wednesday	9 am-10 am	Journal club
3.			Radiation Physics
4.	Tuesday	2.30 pm-4pm	Bedside Grand Rounds
5.	Saturday	10am -11 am	New case and Radiation planning audit
6.	Saturday	11am- 1pm	Case discussions

Achievement and Awards

2^nd prize at 44th Annual Conference of the Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROICON 2024) – oral presentation - HEXASHOT- A short course palliative radiation therapy of 21Gy in 6 fractions over 3 days in locally advanced un-resectable head and neck squamous cell cancers – Dr Subhrajit (2^nd year PG).

Smt. Draupadi Murmu, The President of India awarded prestigious Gold Medal to Dr. Shaswat Lohia, MD student Radiation Oncology VMMC & Safdarjung Hospital New Delhi.

Sh. Vivek Kaushik Radiotherapy Technologist has secured Gold Medal in inter ministry Table Tennis Tournament (doubles). He also Officiated Inter institutional Table Tennis championship in Chandigarh.

Mr. Sanjeet Singh, Radiotherapy Technologist secured First Position in Inter Ministry Table Tennis Tournament.