Radiation therapy is the use of ionizing radiation for treatment of diseases and the specialized field of using ionizing radiation for the treatment of cancers is known as Radiation Oncology Approximately. 2/3rd of all cancer patients require radiation therapy as the sole treatment modality or in combination with surgery or anticancer drugs (Chemotherapy). Radiotherapy plays a very important role in curing early stage cancer and in relieving symptoms and possibly prolonging life for patients with advanced cancers.

Our efforts in the department will be to offer optimal radiotherapy and comprehensive patient care. Optimal & efficient delivery of treatment not only requires the appropriate infrastructure but also well trained and motivated personnel. The will facilities offer modern sophisticated, state-of-the-art treatments like 3-D conformal radiotherapy (3-D CRT), intensity modulated radiotherapy & radiosurgery (IMRT & IMRS), Stereotactic radiotherapy/ radiosurgery, Image Guided Radiation therapy (IGRT) and Respiratory Gating apart from conventional radiotherapy. Intra-cranial Stereotactic Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery are delivered using the "Brain-Lab" system comprising of micro-multileaf collimator (mMLC) and a dedicated planning system. Apart from the usual features it has additional features like image fusion using MRI/ PET/ CT images. The PLATO-TPS is used for both High Dose Rate (HDR) and Low Dose Rate (LDR) Brachytherapy Planning. Oncentra Planning System is used for Brachytherapy Contouring. A stringent quality assurance (QA) program and features like the "Online Portal Imaging" ensures efficient and accurate radiotherapy treatment are also available. With newer Linear Accelerators, Cone Beam CT and Mega Voltage CT can be done for patients being treated on Trilogy and Tomotherapy Hi-Art machines.

The current infrastructure will be available for external beam therapy includes three Linear Accelerators with 6 to 15 MV photon energy and multiple electron energies from 6 to 20 MeV.

Modern anticancer drugs have helped to mount a major attack against cancer. Many cancers like blood cancer (leukemias), lymphomas and other childhood cancers which were uniformly fatal twenty-five years ago can now be completely cured or effectively contained by these drugs.

A combined treatment using anticancer drugs along with surgery and/or radiotherapy achieves a greater therapeutic effect. The expert team of medical oncologists at the Kiran Hospital

Chemotherapy (also called chemo) is a type of cancer treatment that uses drugs to destroy cancer cells. Chemotherapy works by stopping or slowing the growth of cancer cells, which grow and divide quickly. But it can also harm healthy cells that divide quickly, such as those that line the mouth and intestines or cause hair to grow. Damage to healthy cells may cause side effects.

Often, side effects get better or go away after chemotherapy is over. This can be given before surgery or radiotherapy called neoadjuvant therapy or after called adjuvant chemotherapy. Chemotherapy may be used to destroy cancer cells that have come back (recurrent cancer) or spread to other parts of the body (metastatic cancer). Earlier there used to be less number of chemotherapy drugs but today we have several options of giving 1st, 2nd and 3rd line drugs. Low dose metronomic chemotherapy is also showing some promising results and could be used to treat the cancer as a chronic disease.