| Dr. Kusum Verma, Prof. and Head, Dept. of Pathology and Principal Investigator | | Dr. B.B. Tyagi, Scientist IV and Co-Principal Investigator | | Dr. N. Manoharan, Scientist I and Co-Investigator |
| | The Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital (IRCH) at AIIMS, New Delhi founded in 1975, started functioning in 1983-84 on 2 floors with 35 beds. It is now 20 years old and has expanded up to seven floors with the bed strength of 200. It has 3 major departments: Radiation, Surgical and Medical Oncology. It has supportive units of Anesthesiology Radiodiagnosis, Lab Oncology Medical Physics and Delhi population based cancer registry. On an average more than 60,000 cancer patients attend as out patients annually and among them approximately 10,000 are new cases. The indoor admissions are 9000 per year including day care. This is a Regional Cancer Centre. The centre has an ongoing MD course in Radiotherapy and super specialized DM course in Medical Oncology. Ph. D training is provided in medical physics, medical oncology and radiation oncology. Both clinical and lab based research are conducted regularly and large number of papers published at national and international level.
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