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Center of Excellence at Apollo Specialty Hospitals, Chennai


Established of the first corporate hospital in Chennai (Madras) in 1983. The Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai offers exclusive care in Super Specialties like Oncology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, ENT, Orthopedics and Plastic surgery. Besides curative care, Apollo Specialty Hospital offers preventive health check-ups that give a comprehensive picture of your state of health. ASH also has a 24-hour Emergency and Trauma Care Unit that can handle a variety of medical and surgical emergencies.

Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai, is India's first super - specialty hospital to be awarded accreditation by JCI (USA) in 2006. Apollo Chennai holds the honor of being the first Hospital in India to perform Total Knee Replacement surgery as well as Birmingham Hip Resurfacing, Liver Transplant, Coronary Angioplasty, and Radio surgeries. Their Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery Center has performed 27,000 open heart surgeries with a success rate of 99.6%.

The Centres of Excellence at the Apollo Specialty hospital, Chennai are : -

  • Apollo Centre for Cancer care.
  • Apollo Centre for Cosmetic Surgery.
  • Apollo Centre for Neuro Science.
  • Apollo Centre for Nephrology and Urology.
  • Apollo Centre for Orthopaedics.
  • Apollo Centre for Critical Care Medicine.
  • Apollo Centre for Obstetrics and Gynaecology and IVF.
  • Apollo Centre for Radiology and Imaging Sciences.
  • Apollo Centre for Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Surgery.

The Apollo Cancer Foundation

The Apollo Cancer Foundation organizes a series of outreach programs to educate the public about cancer cure and care. Subjects like cancer prevention, treatment, control, alleviation of pain and assessment are addressed by the foundation.


Bone Marrow Transplant at Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai

Bone Marrow Transpalnt is a technique used to treat malignant conditions like Acute Myeloid Leukemia, Lymphatic Leukemia, Myeloma and Hodgkin's disease. Specific cases of breast and ovarian cancers, Neuroblastoma and genetic disorders like Thalassemia have also benefited from this treatment.

At Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai, bone marrow transplants have been performed to treat conditions like acute myeloid leukemia, lymphatic leukemia, Myeloma and Hodgkin's disease. Apollo has a hi-tech BMT unit with 80 dedicated beds, which is the largest in the continent. This BMT unit is at par with the best in the world, and performs both Allogenic, and Autologous BMT's. The Bone Marrow Transplant unit at the Apollo Specialty Hospital is on par with the best in the world.

Cord Blood, rich in stem cells, is now in use. Facilities for both autologous and Allogenic transplantation are available at the hospital, using a cell separator for stem cell harvest procedures and a freezing system to cryo-preserve the cells for future use. Facilities for Peripheral Stem Harvest are also available.

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Medical Oncology at Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai

Over a thousand new patients are given chemotherapy every year. Conventional and intensive chemotherapy is routinely performed at the hospital.


Surgical Oncology at Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai

Complicated and delicate tumor excisions are routinely performed at the Apollo Specialty Hospital by a team of highly trained and motivated Surgical Oncologists, well supported by skilled operating theater and recovery staff. The success rate of Oncology surgeries is comparable with the best centers in the world.


Radiation Oncology at Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai

The department of Radiation Oncology at the Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai has one of the most active Brachytherapy programs in the world. In addition to intra-cavitary and intraluminal treatments, the clinic has developed many novel approaches to brachytherapy and is one of a very few medical centers having professional experience in these techniques. The center uses the Iodine 125 permanent Seed Implant Technique using RAPID strand.

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Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiotherapy at Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai

This is a non-invasive radiation technique employed to treat various types of intracranial lesions like arteriovenous malformation, meningiomas and acoustic schwamins, usually done where risks of open surgery offer unacceptable odds.

Linear accelerator assisted stereo tactic radio surgery is a widely accepted form of treatment and is extremely cost-effective. Through this procedure deep seated lesions can be identified, visualized, analyzed and treated precisely.

Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai is the first hospital in India to offer this treatment.


Stereotactic Radio- surgery at Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai

The Apollo Specialty Hospitals Chennai was the first center in South Asia to make available the Stereo tactic Radio surgery (SRS). More than 550 patients have undergone Stereo tactic radiation since May 27th 1995 when the first patient was treated.

Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai is among the pioneers to offer IMRT (Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy) to the patients. Special types of radiotherapy like Whole Skin Electron Irradiation or Whole Body Irradiation are also carried out. These are carried out in support of the treatment of Leukemia or Skin Lymphoma patients.

IMRT is an enormously powerful tool in the experienced hands of expert radiation oncologists. Several forms of HPI are being used at Apollo. The latest development is modulation of radiation intensity with Multi leaf Collimator.

Branches of Apollo Hospitals in India : -


Apollo Hospital Chennai Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India
Apollo Specialty Hospital Chennai Apollo Specialty Hospital, Chennai, India
Apollo Hospitals Bangalore Apollo Hospitals, Bangalore, India
Apollo Hospitals Ahmadabad Apollo Hospitals, Ahmadabad, India
Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad, India
Apollo Hospitals Kolkata Apollo Gleneagles Hospital, Kolkata, India
Apollo Hospitals Goa Apollo Victor Hospitals, Goa, India
Apollo Hospitals Delhi Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Delhi, India

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