What is oncology?

Oncology is the section of medicine that studies, classifies and treats cancer. A doctor working in the field of oncology is called an Oncologist.

What is an oncologist?
An oncologist is a specialist who practices in diagnosing and operating people who have cancer. The main fields that oncologists work in are radiotherapy, surgical and medical. Dr. Sumit Shah is Oncologist in Pune, associated with Prolife Cancer Centre.
The role of Oncologists is to diagnose cancer, which is usually carried out via biopsy, endoscopy, X-ray, CT scan, MRI scan, ultrasound or other radiological methods. He will accordingly design a treatment plan based on diagnostics reports that will tell what type of cancer you have, how much has it developed, how fast will it spread, and what parts of your body are involved in it.
Dr. Sumit Shah is a profoundly experienced Oncologist in Pune holding 14 years of experience in the field of Surgical Oncology. He is the Founder of Prolife Cancer Centre, Pune and is also the Chief Consultant Surgical Oncologist & Laparoscopic Cancer Surgeon in Pune.
Dr. Shah has pursued a super specialty course at Kolkata and he is also being awarded as the Best Outgoing Cancer Surgeon from the Institute. Dr. Sumit Shah is one of the Best Surgical Oncologist in Pune, India who possesses this recognized degree in Surgical Oncology. He has treated around thousand of patients undergoing Cancer. He is also known for Minimal Access (keyhole) surgery which is been done by very few oncologists in Pune, to offer their patients a pain-free recovery.
Dr. Sumit Shah is been nationally awarded as ‘Promising Surgical Oncologist of the Year 2019’ at the 7th Global Healthcare Excellence Awards, 2019 at a summit held in New Delhi.