Qualifications

• Consultant Breast Onco Surgeon
• MBBS, MS (General Surgery), DrNB (Surgical Oncology)

Professional Bio

Dr. Dhara Pandya is a skilled Surgical Oncologist with vast and special interest in Breast Cancers and Allied Services. She is full-time associated with Zydus Cancer Hospital as a Consultant Breast Oncosurgeon. Dr. Pandya is passionate about comprehensive patient centric cancer care. And she is a lifetime member of various National and International Cancer bodies.

Educational Qualification

• M.B.B.S - R.C.S.M, GMC, Kolhapur, Maharashtra (2007)
• MS (General Surgery) - Government Medical College, Nagpur, Maharashtra (2015)
• DrNB Surgical Oncology - Bhagwan Mahavir Cancer Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan (2019)

Professional Training

• Consultant Surgical Oncologist - Aayush Group of Hospitals ( Oswal & Samarpan ), Jamnagar, Gujarat
• Honorary Consultant Surgical Oncologist - M P Shah Medical Collegwe & G G Hospital, Jamnagar, Gujarat
• Junior Consultant- HCG ICS Khubchandani Cancer Centre, Colaba, Mumbai , Maharashtra
• Senior Resident in Department of General Surgery - Seth Gs & KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai
• Senior Medical Officer - ESI Ulhasnagar
• Junior Resident in General OPD - Tata Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai

Professional Expertise

• Screening, Risk Assesment & Benign Breast diseases
• Breast Cancer- Diagnosis & Treatment
• Sentinel Lymph node biopsy& Targeted axillary sampling
• Chemoport Insertions
• Guided procedures & Biopsies

Other Specific Areas of Interest

• Breast Conservation Surgeries
• All form of Oncoplasty surgeries
• Nipple & Skin Sparing Mastectomies
• Flap & Implant based Reconstructions

Clinical Expertise

• 6+ years of experience
• 150+ Chemoports insertions
• 500+ Breast Surgeries
• 10,000 + Cancer Patients treated

Society Memberships

• ASI (Association of Surgeons of India)
• IASO (Indian Association of Surgical Oncologist)
• ABSI (Association of Breast Surgeons of India)
• ISO (Indian Society of Oncology)
• ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology)
• SSO (Society of Surgical Oncology)
• ESSO (European Society of Surgical Oncology)
• ESMO (European Society of Medical Oncology)
• IMA (Indian Medical Association)
• IAGES (Indian Association of Gastrointestinal Endo-Surgeons)

Awards

• Most Trusted Health Care Leadership Award- Surgical Oncologist (by Dynergic Buisness School & Golden Aim) - April 2025
• Most Dynamaic Health Care Leadership Award- Surgical Oncologist (by Dynergic Buisness School & Golden Aim) - December 2023
• Featured in Women Surgeons (International Platform) - July 2021

Research experience & activities

• Poster Presesntation at ESSO 43rd Congress at Antwerp, Belgium - October 2024
• Debate participation under National Board of Examination academics programme on topic - Stage 3 Lung Cancers - Surgery vs Only CT/RT
• Presented 2 posters and oral presentations during the tenure of General Surgery (National & State Level conferences) (ASCION & MASICON respectively)
• Attended Research Methodology Workshop
• Utilised combined Fluroscien & Methylene Blue dye for sentinel lymph node biopsy in EBC to enhance detection accuracy
• Performed Intraoperative in vivo Sentinel Lymph node biopsy in Colorectal Cancer surgeries improving lymph node mapping & staging (Thesis)

Publications

• Title - Study of Laproscopic adhesiolysis in postoperative sdhesive intestinal obstruction.
  Published in - 2018 in International Journal of Contemporary Medicine, Surgery & Radiology
• Title - A study of corelation between preoperative risk factors & various complicationsoccuring during & after laproscopic procedures.
  Published in- August 2017 in Journal of Medical Sciences & Clinical Research