Cancer Care Kolkata is one of the foremost cancer treatment facilitators in Kolkata, India that gives cancer patients and their families informed and rational decisions for the management of cancer. We have a multidisciplinary team of highly qualified Clinical Oncologists with rich experience in using cancer medicines right from conventional chemotherapy to the most advanced therapies like targeted therapy and immunotherapy.
Our expert team of Surgical and Radiation Oncologists provide the latest innovative management approaches for loco regional treatment like minimal access surgery (laparoscopic), advanced radiotherapeutic techniques for radiation therapy like SABR, IMRT, IGRT, SRS, IGBT, IORT and plesiotherapy.
Cancer is an abnormal growth which results from uncontrolled cell division. Besides, there is morphological changes in the cell and these cells have a tendencyto spread to other organs, called metaslasis. ln fact, these changes in the characteristics of acell and its tendency to dlstant rnetastasis are the two most important factor that differentiate a maligment fro.m a benigh tumour.
Cancer is confirmed either by FNAC (fine needle aspiration cytology) or Biopsy. however, an 0ncologist would be able to decide which is the most suitable investigation for the particular patient. Besides , there are several other investigations which may suggest a cancer, but confirmation is always by a FNAC or Biopsy.
No, it does not, provided operaticn is performed followtng strict oncological principles, The rnain 0ncological principle of Cancer Surgery is to obtain a negative surgical margin. That means a surgeon's knife should not pass through a tumour. He should resect the tumour with at least 2cm healthy margin whenever feasible and there must be any tumour seedlings in the raw areas during surgery.
es, in many cases cancer is curable. But to achieve complete cure, patient should be diagnosed and treated at an early stage rif the disease. However, in spite of all modern treatment, all cancer are not curable.
