Hyderabad: Yashoda Group of Hospitals, the largest corporate healthcare group in Andhra Pradesh has opened a new cancer institute in Malakpet, Hyderabad. The new State-of-Art cancer institute is Yashoda Hospitals’ third cancer institute and is spread over 16,000 sq ft. With its comprehensive and specialised treatment facilities, the new institute aims to address the absence of such a modern facility for cancer treatment in the vicinity.

As Yashoda Hospitals’ strives to offer the best quality healthcare to as many people as possible, the new cancer institute will cater to not only patients from Malakpet but also the districts of Mahabubnagar, Khammam, Nalgonda, Kadapa, Anantpur.

Commenting on the launch Dr. G. S. Rao, Managing Director, Yashoda Group of Hospitals, said “Over the years Yashoda Hospitals has been bringing super speciality health care facilities to the community we serve. The launch of the new institute underlines our commitment to offer quality healthcare service and excel in what we do. Our goal is to provide advanced healthcare technology in lesser developed markets, and enable patients from these markets to avail high quality treatment at effective costs.”

The new institute will offer advanced diagnostics systems including invasive diagnostics, out patient & inpatient chemotherapy, non-chemotherapy (biologic) drugs, radical / supraradical & minimally invasive cancer surgery, palliative care, and other related cancer care needs. The Institute is also supported by an expert and experienced team of surgeons and nursing staff specializing in regions of cancers of head & neck region, gastrointestinal or abdominal cancers, breast cancer, gynaecological cancers, genitourinary cancers.

Some of the super speciality medical care in the institute includes Radiation Oncology, Medical Oncology, Surgical Oncology, Diagnostic Facility, High Definition PET/CT and SPECT CT- Gamma Camera.

Like all the cancer institutes of Yashoda Hospitals, the new institute too is centrally interconnected through a server beam from which matching data can be accessed by the best physicists, technicians and consultants sitting in any of the Yashoda Cancer Institutes.