Best oncologist in Chennai for Breast Cancer, Head And Neck Cancer, Genitourinary Cancer

• Dr Sapna Nangia is a highly proficient clinical and radiation oncologist with versatile experience spanning across cancer management, application of precise radiation techniques, research, academics, public education and awareness. With a rich experience of more than 33 years as a doctor and 24 years as an oncologist, she has been associated with some of the most reputed institutes like Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals, Fortis Hospitals' International Oncology Centre and the Army Medical Corps to name a few. She has been trained for proton therapy by observerships at Miami Cancer Institute, Miami, Maryland Proton Treatment Center, Baltimore and Procure Proton Therapy Centre, New Jersey. She has also visited City of Hope, Duarte, Los Angeles as an observer for Tomotherapy and Total Marrow Irradiation. Dr Nangia has been an observer at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care, New York, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, New York and Moores Cancer Centre, San Diego earlier.

Information

• Apollo Proton, Chennai ,Chennai
• 4/661, Dr Vikram Sarabai Instronic Estate 7th St, Dr. Vasi Estate, Phase II, Tharamani, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600096

Education

• MBBS - Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in 1985
• MD Radiotherapy at Sanjay Gandhi Institute of Medical Science, Lucknow in 1994

Memberships

• Delhi Medical Council
• Association of Radiation Oncologists of India (AROI)
• Foundation for Head and Neck Oncology (FHNO)
• American Society for Therapeutic Oncology (ASTRO)
• European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO)
• Association of Gynecologic Oncologists of India - AGOI
• Indian Society of Neuro-Oncology (ISNO)

Awards and Recognitions

• Nangia.S. Chufal K. S. Tyagi A. Bhatnagar A. et al Selective nodal irradiation for head and neck cancer using intensity-modulated radiotherapy: application of RTOG consensus guidelines in routine clinical practice Int Journal Radiation Oncol Biol Phys 2010 Jan 76(1) 146 – 53.
• Khosa R, Nangia S, Chufal K S, Ghosh D, Kaul R, Sharma L Daily online localisation using implanted fiducials and its impact on planning target volume for prostate cancer. Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics 2010 72 (6) 172 -8
• Nangia S, Chufal KS, Arivazhagan V, Srinivas P, Tyagi A, Ghosh D.
• Compensator-based intensity-modulated radiotherapy in head and neck cancer: our experience in achieving dosimetric parameters and their clinical correlation. Clin Oncol 2006 Aug;18(6):485-92
• Khosa R, Seth S, Nangia S, Metachronous Solitary Plasmacytoma. BMJ Case Reports 2017.
• Nangia S, Gupta S, Agarwal S, Rastogi H, Vohra S, Goyal N, Agarwal A, Balakrishnan P, Khosa R, Rout S, Oomen S. Aggressive downstaging of hepatocellular carcinoma with portal vein tumour thrombus: Initial results of SHORT + TACE as Neoadjuvant treatment before surgery. EJC 2016;Suppl 1: S31.
• Singh M, Nangia, S, Khosa R, Singh V P. Primary intracranial sarcoma - Report of two cases and a review Of literature. JCRT. 2017 Supplement, Vol. 13, pS245-S245.
• Pandey H, Nangia S, Kashyap V, Khosa R. Primary apocrine carcinoma of the axilla: A case report. JCRT . 2017 Supplement, Vol. 13, pS205-S206.
• R Srivastava, G Saini, Sharma PK, Chomal M, Aggarwal A, Nangia S, Garg M A technique to reduce low dose region for craniospinal irradiation (CSI) with Rapidarc and its dosimetric comparison with 3 D conformal technique. J Can Res Ther 2015;11(2): 488-91.
• Nangia S, Khosa R, Aggarwal A , Balakrishnan P, SelvaKumar A, Rout S, Oomen S In post operative radiotherapy for oral cancer, is a uniform PRV margin for the cervical spine appropriate? Head and Neck. J Can Res Ther 2015;11:57-87.
• Saini G, Aggarwal A, Srivastava R, Sharma PK, Garg M, Nangia S, Chomal M. Image-guided radiation therapy for muscle-invasive carcinoma of the urinarybladder with cone beam ct scan: use of individualized internal target volumes for a single patient. Case Rep Oncol. 2012 Sep;5(3):498-505.
• Chomal M, Saini G, Sinha A, Aggarwal A, Jain A, Shrivastava R, Sharma PK,Nangia S. In Reply to Dr. Cashmore and colleagues: Lowering whole-body radiation doses in pediatric intensity - modulated radiotherapy through the use of unflattened photon beams: Cashmore J et al. (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys2011;80:1220-1227). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Mar 15;82(4):13245.
• Saini G, Aggarwal A, Sharma PK, Chomal M, Srivastava R, Nangia S, Garg M. Response to ""Development and evaluation of multiple isocentric volumetricmodulated arc therapy technique for craniospinal axis radiotherapy planning"". Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2012 Jan1;82(1):494-5.
• Datta NR , Kumar S, Nangia S, Hukku S, Ayyagari S, A non-randomized comparison of two radiotherapy protocols in inoperable squamous cell carcinoma of the oesophagus. Clin Oncol 1998;10(5):306-12
• Chufal KS , Nangia S Aggression and innovation rather than palliation. Radiother Oncol. 2008;89:123.
• Tyagi A, Nangia S, Chufal K, Mishra M, Ghosh D, and Singh M P . Quality assurance and dosimetric analysis of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy using compensators for head and neck cancers. Med. Phys.2008 35(6) 2763-2763.
• Chufal K, Nangia S, Tyagi A, Arivazhagan V, Srinivas P, Ghosh D. Intensity modulated radiotherapy using compensators for head And neck cancer patients: Impact of dosimetric parameters on clinical outcome Int Journal of Radiation Oncology Biol Phys, 66(3) S453-S454.
• Poster Combined photon electron irradiation of post mastectomy chest wall: Preliminary results, 24th National Conference of AROI, Nov 2002, Bangalore.

Experience

• Senior Consultant & Academic Coordinator at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital (2012 - 2018)
• Chief Radiation Oncologist, International Oncology Centre, Fortis Hospital, Noida
• Consultant, Medical Affairs at Varian Medical Systems (2017- 2018)
• Consultant at Apollo Proton Hospitals

Areas of interest

• Breast Cancer, Head And Neck Cancer, Genitourinary Cancer .