KMC Hospital Attavar Oncology Centre, Attavara

KMC Hospital Attavar Oncology Centre is the cancer unit of KMC Hospital at Attavara in Mangaluru. It provides diagnosis, treatment and follow-up care for cancer in one place, with outpatient clinics in the morning and again in the afternoon.Medical oncology, surgical oncology and paediatric oncology run as separate services, supported by onco-plastic surgery for reconstruction after cancer surgery and by minimal access surgical techniques.Radiation therapy includes stereotactic body radiation therapy, used for prostate cancer among other sites.The centre treats cancers of the breast, lung, stomach, colon and rectum, prostate, bladder, ovary, cervix and peritoneum, cancers of the mouth, head and neck, and brain tumours.Urological cancer is handled through a multidisciplinary uro-oncology tumour board, with comprehensive evaluation including PSMA PET scanning and prostate biopsy.Diagnostic services on site include PET, CT and MRI scanning, ultrasound, X-ray, biopsy and oncology-related laboratory testing, alongside EEG and ENMG laboratories.Pain and palliative care is provided as a named service, and the hospital operates a blood bank, a dialysis centre, an accident and emergency department and a pharmacy.KMC Hospital Attavar Oncology Centre is located at Attavara, Mangaluru 575001. Attavara sits just south of the city centre near Hampankatta, in the cluster of teaching hospitals that makes Mangaluru the referral point for the whole of coastal Karnataka. Patients come here from across Dakshina Kannada and Udupi, from the Malnad taluks inland, and from Kasaragod across the Kerala border, for whom Mangaluru is the nearest centre offering radiation therapy and specialist cancer surgery.