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About
Dr. Sasikumar Sambasivam is the Head of the department and a Consultant Radiation Oncologist cum Palliative Care Physician.
His areas of interest are Organ preservation in Cancer Therapy, Treatment with Technical advances in Radiation therapy, Breast, cervical, Head and neck cancers,Brain tumors and GI Malignancies.
He has vast experience in the field ranging from conventional 2D, 3Dimensional Conformal Radiation Therapy, Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, Image Guided Radiotherapy, VMAT / Rapid Arc /SBRT, SRS, SRT (X knife and Cyberknife VLSI) and Tomotherapy.
He is currently the Consultant in theDept of Radiation Oncology, Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Centre for Oncology, Meenakshi Hospital, Thanjavur., Tamil Nadu, India.
He has been instrumental in establishing the Brachytherapy Unit and a dedicated Day Care Unit for cancer patients at Tanjore. He has profound knowledge on Brachytherapy for Gynaec Cancers, Head and Neck cancers , Breast and Soft tissue sarcomas.
He has been instrumental in the NABH accreditation processes for the Department of Radiation Oncology.
He is also an important part of the Quality Training Programs along with CAHO/ CQP.
Publications in International Journals to his credit.
He is the Editor of Thanjavur Meenakshi Medical Journal.
ORCID ID
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1867-085X
