Case Report Megaprosthesis
SURGICAL ONCOLOGY –
The Department of Surgical Oncology has expertise to deal with head & neck, thoracic, breast, soft tissue, and gastrointestinal, urologic and gynecologic malignancies.
The Surgical Oncology department has a team of qualified and very well trained surgical oncologists visiting from Tata Hospital who are well accomplished to carry out the complex surgeries on all type of cancers of the body as per the latest approved international standards and protocols. They are ably complemented by the state of the art operation theatres, modern and scientifically updated instruments and machineries. The surgical team is backed by a team of highly trained & competent anesthetists and by a well-equipped post-operative intensive (ICU) & Surgical Intensive Care Units (SICU), monitored round the clock by the trained team of doctors.
The department forms the backbone of the comprehensive cancer care of the patient that the hospital offers in a structured coordinated multidisciplinary approach – for the treatment of patients suffering from cancer with the aim of patient care, complete cure, and rehabilitation.
RADIATION ONCOLOGY:
B.K.L. Walawalkar hospital and research Institute is one of the largest radiation oncology departments in Konkan region with BHABHATRON cobalt unit, High Dose rate Brachytherapy Unit, CT-Simulator, Digital Conventional Simulator. 
Over the last 20 years, the B.K.L. Walawalkar Hospital has been providing good quality secondary care services. It is backed up with tertiary level medical care and has expanded its scope very rapidly since its inception. In recent time, the institute has set up the Radiotherapy unit which will result in establishment of comprehensive cancer care facilities in the backward Konkan region of Maharashtra. Padmavibhushan Dr. Anil Kakodkar, Chairman Department of Atomic Energy inaugurated Radiotherapy unit “BHABHATRON-2” on 7th February 2009.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY
The department caters the medical needs of both children and adults with cancer and is accompanied by trained residential doctors and visiting consultants from Tata Hospital. The sophisticated medical intensive care unit (MICU) is well equipped with all facilities.
The following services are offered by the department:
Emergencies are attended round the clock
- Outpatient department:
- Day care chemotherapy
- In patient chemotherapy
- Specialized Pediatric ward
- Bone marrow transplantation
In Patient Services:
- Nutritional assessment of the patients.
- Planning the diets and counseling the patients according to their individual needs, medical conditions and treatment.
- Taking care of the food services by planning different menus for the various diets like liquids, normal diet, diabetic diet etc.., and supervision of the food services and quality check of the food prepared.
Out Patient Services:
Patient diet counseling on referrals or walk in
This institute has got a separate ward where Chemotherapy is administered as per standard as well as locally developed protocols. Chemotherapy is the administration of cytotoxic drugs and more recently biologicals to destroy the cancer cells. It is one of the multi- disciplinary approaches for the treatment of cancers and has become the mainstay of treatment for almost all malignancies especially in Leukemias (Blood Cancer), Lymphomas, Germ cell tumor and Choriocarcinoma, Cancer Breast and Ovary to name a few. The department on a regular basis gives high dose chemotherapy as per the requirements.