Medical & Interventional Oncology
Putting therapy where it has to act.
Department Family: Interventional & Procedural Medicine
Most cancer therapy fails at the point of delivery rather than the point of mechanism. A drug that works in the laboratory has to reach tumour tissue at sufficient concentration, and in hypovascular or fibrotic disease, systemic dosing raises whole-body exposure long before it raises intratumoural concentration. Image-guided intervention addresses that directly: a catheter in the vessel feeding a tumour, or a needle placed under CT guidance, achieves a local concentration unattainable systemically at any tolerable dose.
The division combines conventional oncological management with ablation, embolisation, and intra-arterial delivery, and with investigational tumour-suppressor restoration constructs. One qualification is stated plainly because it is stated too rarely in this field: local delivery solves a concentration problem, not a staging problem. Disease that has disseminated is not made local by treating it locally, and regional therapy in that setting is a component of systemic management rather than a substitute for it.
Scope of Practice & Delivery Modalities
Clinical Procedures & Intervention Protocols
Refer a Patient or Initiate Clinical Candidacy Assessment
Referring clinicians and patients can submit clinical records, diagnostic imaging, and pathology for multidisciplinary evaluation by Medical & Interventional Oncology faculty.