Dr. Aruna Prabhu M.S., M.Ch.,
A trained surgical oncologist, Dr Aruna Prabhu has specialized from leading pioneer institutes around the world. Her passion to serve society brought her to settle in Namakkal.
She takes special interest in peritoneal surface oncology, breast cancer and gastrointestinal cancer. To establish Peritoneal surface oncology unit, she travelled across the globe to get trained by experts. Under her guidance these units provide cytoreduction surgeries, HIPEC (Heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy), intraperitoneal chemotherapy for advanced cancers of ovary, stomach, colorectal, pseudomyxoma and rare cancers affecting peritoneum. She has developed a capable team to manage this demanding field. She has successfully conducted about 100 procedures in the last 2 years at the most affordable cost. Her motto is that no patient with advanced stage cancer should be deprived of the treatment.
She is an expert in the field of breast cancer. Training in highest volume centers gives her an edge to deal with breast cancer scientifically. She is instrumental in providing aesthetic surgery in breast cancer by adopting conservation and reconstruction procedures in breast cancer.
Dr Aruna Prabhu strongly believes that the medical field without research is incomplete. Her scientific work has got recognition nationally and internationally. She is pivotal in conducting regular research and scientific programs in Thangam cancer center. In her guidance center maintains a strong patient database and conducts various clinical trials.
To increase sensitivity of public towards cancer patients, she has conducted many workshops at grassroot level. She is very active in spreading awareness about cancer through camps interaction session and social media.
Robotic Gynecologic Surgery in India
Know More- MBBS - Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai.
- M.S General Surgery - Grant Medical College & Sir J.J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai.
- M.Ch Surgical Oncology – HomiBhabha National Institute, MCh Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Mumbai.
- Certified Course in PIPAC procedure, NUHS, Singapore
- Fellowship in Peritoneal Surface Oncology, Basingstoke, Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital,UK
- Asian School of Peritoneal Surface Oncology fellowship, Tokushukai hospital, Osaka, Japan
- HBNI Fellowship in breast surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital (TMH), Mumbai, India
- 1st prize in Face painting, Rangoli and Badminton in IMA, Namakkal- 2019 & 2020
- 1st prize in Poster presentation on ‘A retrospective analysis of age standardized hormone receptor status & survival in Indian women’ in WCI conference, Oct 2012
- Certificate of appreciation for exemplary services in the Trauma management in the Mumbai Terror Attack, Nov 2008.
- Scholarship from ‘B Braun Medical Trust Foundation’ for outstanding achievement in postgraduate medical studies, 2007.
- 1st Prize in ‘Late Dr. Indrajit Mitra Memorial Intercollegiate Surgery Quiz’ Sep 2004, Nagpur.
- Conducted the first Peritoneal Surface Oncology workshop in this region
- Established the first dedicated Peritoneal Surface Oncology Unit in this region
- Chaired sessions, conducted panel discussions and debates on several topics in Oncology
- As a first author in ‘First Report of a Low-Grade Pseudomyxoma Peritonei originating from gall bladder from gall bladder’. Visceral Medicine, Oct 2020.
- As a first author in ‘Retrospective analysis of patients with signet ring subtype of colorectal cancer with peritoneal metastasis treated with CRS & HIPEC’. Cancers, Sep 2020.
- As a first author in ‘Neoadjuvant intraperitoneal chemotherapy in patients with Pseudomyxoma Peritonei- A novel Treatment approach’. Cancers,Aug 2020.
- As a first author in ‘Dual cancer: Papillary and Signet ring cell carcinoma, arising in a patient operated for choledochal cyst: an unusual histological finding’. Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology, Jun 2020.
- As a first author in ‘Neoadjuvant oxaliplatin based chemotherapy leads to increased oxaliplatin resistance in patients with peritoneally metastasized colorectal cancer treated with cytoreductive surgery and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy’. British Journal of Surgery, 2020 (Accepted for publication).
- As an author in ‘The Pathological Peritoneal Cancer Index (PCI) strongly differs from the Surgical PCI in peritoneal metastases arising from various primary tumors’. Annals of Surgical Oncology, Feb 2020.
- As an author in ‘Long term survival after cytoreductive surgery combined with perioperative chemotherapy in Gastric Cancer patients with peritoneal metastasis’. Cancers, Jan 2020.
- As an author in ‘Effects of Cytoreductive surgery combined with perioperative chemotherapy on long-term survival of colorectal cancer patients with peritoneal metastasis with special reference to the involved peritoneal sectors and organs’. Cancer & Chemotherapy, Dec2019.
- As an author in ‘Target region resection in patients undergoing surgery for peritoneal metastasis-is it necessary in absence of visible disease?’. European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Nov 2019.
- As an author in ‘Pathological assessment of cytoreductive surgery specimens and its unexplored prognostic potential- a prospective multicentric study’. European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Jul 2019.
- As an author in ‘A versatile method for enumeration and characterization of circulating tumor cells from patients with breast cancer’, in Journal of Cancer metastasis and treatment, Feb 2017.
- As an author in ‘Re-excision after unplanned resection of non-metastatic nonrhabdomyo soft tissue sarcoma in children: Comparison with planned excision’, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, Jan 2017.
- As a first author in ‘Pancreatoblastoma masquerading as hepatoblastoma: A diagnostic dilemma’, in Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons, Aug 2016.
- As an author in ‘Pseudoaneurysms Masquerading as Malignant Bone Tumours’, in Journal of Clinical & Diagnostic Research, May 2016.
- Poster Presentation on ‘A retrospective analysis of age standardized hormone receptor status & survival in Indian women’ in UAE Cancer Congress, 2012
- Poster Presentation on ‘Are Indian breast cancers more Triple negative as compared to West?’ in Indian Cancer Congress, 2013
- As a first author in ‘Does progesterone protect from chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy? A retrospective audit of breast cancer patients’. Journal Of Clinical Oncology, May 2012.
- As an author in ‘Post-neoadjuvant chemotherapy sentinel node biopsy and axillary sampling for node negative (N0) axilla’. Journal of Clinical Oncology, May 2012.
- A first author in the review article ‘Post Mastectomy Radiotherapy in 1-3 lymph nodes positive patients’ in Acta Oncologica, Dec 2011.
- Poster presentation on ‘Rapunzel Syndrome with perforation in an adult’ in MASICON 2009
- Poster presentation on ‘Acid corrosive ingestion resulting in gastric, splenic and pancreatic necrosis’ in MASICON 2009.
- As an author in the article ‘Primary malignant Gastric carcinoid tumor with adenocarcinoma invading transverse colon’ in the Bombay Hospital Journal, 2007.