Dr. P K Das — Vice Chairman – Medical Oncology in Delhi NCR

Dr. P K Das is Vice Chairman of Medical Oncology at Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in Saket, Delhi NCR, with more than 29 years of experience. His profile records medical oncology together with haematological malignancies, and his qualifications are MBBS, MD and DM.

His procedure list covers systemic treatment across both halves of that practice. Chemotherapy for cancer, cancer immunotherapy and targeted therapy for cancer sit alongside hormone therapy given separately for breast, prostate and gynecologic cancers, which is the group of tumours whose growth can be slowed by changing the hormonal signal rather than by killing the cell outright.

He read MBBS at VSS Medical College under Sambalpur University in Odisha in 1990 and MD in internal medicine at MKCG Medical College under Berhampur University in 1995, then took DM in medical oncology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi in 2000. He is affiliated with Max Smart Super Speciality Hospital in Saket and with Max Hospital in Saket East.

His recognition has come from three directions. He won first prize at the 11th International Congress on Anti-Cancer Treatment in Paris, France in 2001. In 2013 he was selected to the Expert Advisory Committee on Oncology for six new AIIMS institutions under the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, and in the same year to an expert committee of the Drug Controller General of India.

His published work spans the cancers he treats and the tools used to stage them, including EGFR mutation status in NSCLC in India, the reliability of 18F-FDG PET parameters in invasive ductal carcinoma, and NK/T cell lymphoma presenting as chronic rhinosinusitis.