Milestones – Oncology Hospital in Bangalore

A decade after the establishment of India’s first corporate hospital, Apollo Hospitals in Chennai, on 30th September 1993, Dr. Prathap.C Reddy launched a dedicated state-of-the-art facility for cancer care in the same city. Originally named Apollo Cancer Hospital, it commenced operations as a 45-bed unit with medical oncology and eventually other treatment modalities like surgical and radiation oncology were added to the overall cancer offering.

Our National Achievements

• First hospital group in South-East Asia to introduce the 64 Slice PET-CT Scan.
• First hospital to introduce PET MRI.
• First hospital in India to introduce CyberKnife®.
• First hospital group in India to have all the latest Radiotherapy Linacs like NovalisTx™ and TrueBeam.
• First hospital in India to be launching Proton Therapy.
• Over 100,000 IMRT Radiotherapy Sessions.
• Demonstrated excellence in Over 500,000 Linac Radiotherapy Sessions.
• Over 1,000,000 Chemo Sessions.
• First hospital in India to have Robotic Onco SurgeryOver 700,000 Inpatients.
• Over 2,500,000 Outpatients.
• Over 120 referral destinations.
• Over 750 beds dedicated to Oncology.
• Over 125 Oncology specialists across Apollo Group.
• Over 1500 nursing staff dedicated to Oncology.
• Over 700 Bone Marrow Transplants performed.
• Over 200 Onco Robotic Surgeries.
• Over 100,000 Onco Surgeries at success rates comparable to the best in the world.
• Over 1300 CyberKnife® Robotic Radio Surgery cases.