APOLLO PROTON CANCER CENTRE
Hospital Address : No. 320, Anna Salai, Teynampet, Nandanam, Chennai – 600 035
Apollo Cancer Centre, India’s first ISO certified healthcare provider is today ranked among the top super specialty hospitals , offering advanced tertiary care in Oncology, Orthopedics, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Head and Neck surgery and Reconstructive and Plastic surgery.
Equipped with 300 beds, the latest and the best technology, manned by a large pool of world renowned specialists and supported by a dedicated team of medical and paramedical professionals, Apollo Cancer Centre offers specialty healthcare of international standards with outcomes matching those of the world’s best hospitals.
The hospital provides 360 degree cancer care. The comprehensive treatment planning system involves a Tumour Board which consists of a panel of competent medical, surgical and radiation oncologists. The Board along with diagnostic consultants examines referred cases and jointly decides on the best line of treatment for each patient. Medical counsellors, speech therapists, dieticians and other professionals, relevant to the case further support the panel.
The hospital is one of the few centers in India with facilities to search for a potential unrelated donor and offer transplantation.
MILESTONES
- First Oncology Hospital in India and First Hospital in Chennai city to be accredited by NABH.
- First hospital in South-East Asia to introduce the 64 Slice PET-CT Scan.
- First hospital in India to introduce CyberKnife®.
- First hospital in India to have all the latest Radiotherapy equipment such as TrueBeam STX .
- First hospital in India to launch Proton Therapy shortly.
TECHNOLOGY
- Full Field Digital Mammography with Tomosynthesis (3D) System.
- 64 SLICE- PET CT scan system.
- PET MRI
- Cyberknife
- True Beam STX radiotherapy
- Proton therapy
- Brachytherapy
FACILITY
- 300 Beds
- Dedicated Chemotherapy Ward
- Dedicated Stem Cell Transplant Unit
- Platinum Ward Dedicated To Patient Comfort
Cancer Treatments
PROTON THERAPY
Proton Therapy is a highly sophisticated form of Radiation Therapy that uses high energy protons to target tumours accurately…
CYBERKNIFE AND TOMOTHERAPY
TomoTherapy® [Highly Integrated Adaptive Radiotherapy (HI-ART)] shares a lot of technology with CT scanners. The machine even looks like a CT scanner.
MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
Taking a shift from the regular procedures of giving chemotherapy and general drug treatment to any cancer patient, the high end therapeutic method is the next level of treating cancer with more personalised drugs…
SURGICAL ONCOLOGY
Complex tumour removals are skillfully performed by Apollo’s highly trained and motivated surgical oncologists. Apollo’s success rate in oncology surgeries is comparable to that of the best centres in the world…
RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Apollo Hospitals comprehensive care is supported by technology and innovative techniques in High Precision Radiation oncology. High tech radiation oncology is used to treat not only small tumours located in critical areas but is useful in large tumours as well…
DIAGNOSTICS
The diagnostic imaging and therapy systems at Apollo are sophisticated and the radiology groups and imaging facility at the hospitals offer the most economic and effective ways to treat cancer. 3D MAMMOGRAM the revolutionary screening and diagnostic tool…
TRANSPLANTS
Stem Cell or Bone Marrow Transplantation is one of the innovative treatments offered at Apollo Hospitals. It is an exciting area of medicine. Over the last few decades this has been a well established treatment for several cancers and diseases of the blood…
