HCG Cancer Hospital, K. R. Road, Bengaluru

HCG Cancer Hospital on K. R. Road is the flagship facility of HCG's 22-hospital oncology network. It stands at HCG Towers on P. Kalinga Rao Road in central Bengaluru and is NABH accredited. The hospital is devoted to cancer diagnosis, multimodal treatment and supportive care.

Medical, surgical and radiation oncologists work alongside teams in paediatric, gynaecologic, orthopaedic, urinary, gastrointestinal, thoracic and breast oncology. Available treatments include chemotherapy, cancer surgery, robotic operations, reconstructive procedures and several forms of precision radiotherapy. The centre also has nuclear medicine and a day-care chemotherapy unit, allowing suitable infusions to be given without overnight admission.

The radiotherapy department uses CyberKnife, Ethos adaptive radiotherapy, TomoTherapy H and TrueBeam Edge, as well as brachytherapy. Robotic surgery is supported by the da Vinci system. Digital PET-CT, SPECT, digital pathology, mammography, tomosynthesis and genomic and molecular diagnostics contribute to tumour detection, characterisation and treatment planning. Hyperthermia is another treatment modality listed at this branch.

Hospital facilities include operating theatres, an ICU, patient wards, dedicated bone-marrow-transplant wards, a blood bank and an emergency room. These units enable complex cancer surgery, systemic treatment and higher-acuity monitoring to take place on the same campus. Rehabilitation, pain and palliative medicine and psychological oncology address functional symptoms and the effects of prolonged treatment.

This Bengaluru centre may be considered for cancers that need coordinated surgery, drug therapy and radiation. CyberKnife and adaptive platforms are relevant for selected tumours requiring tightly planned radiation, while robotic facilities support suitable minimally invasive oncology operations. Its BMT wards and paediatric oncology service also make it pertinent for selected haematological cancers and childhood malignancies.