Dr Pritam Kataria is specialised in treating all the cancers and also using different modalities involved in treating cancers. His expertise with respect to different modalities includes
CHEMOTHERAPY
Chemotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drugs as part of a standardized chemotherapy regimen. Chemotherapy may be given with a curative intent, or palliative intent [To prolong life or to reduce symptoms]
IMMUNOTHERAPY
Immunotherapy is treatment that uses certain parts of a person’s immune system to fight diseases such as cancer.
Foe e.g different immunotherapy that has been approved in Lung cancer management include Pemrolizumab[KEYTRUDA}, Nivolumab[Opdyta], Durvalumab[Imfinzi]
TARGETED THERAPY
Targeted therapy is a cancer treatment that uses drugs to target specific genes and proteins that are involved in the growth and survival of cancer cells.
HORMONAL THERAPY
Hormones help certain types of breast, prostate, and some other cancers to grow. By using this principle hormone therapy or endocrine therapy can be used to block their production of block their action to slow the cancer's growth or stop it from spreading.
Hormonal therapy or endocrine therapy finds place predominantly in Breast or Prostate cancer. For eg we use Letrozole or Tamoxifen in Breast cancer.
While in prostate cancer, Abiraterone acetate or Enzalutamide finds place.
Precision Medicine and Molecular Oncology
He has special interest in genomics and molecular oncology to provide the personalised approach to patient in terms of treatment for cancers.One size fits all concept is waning from the cancer treatment and Dr Pritam Kataria is perfect fit who is strong believer of the same. With the interest in the same Dr Pritam Kataria helps to deliever the same to patient.
His expertise with respect to treatment of different cancers is as follows
- Head and Neck Cancer treatment [Tongue, lip, buccal mucosa, Oropharyngeal, laryngeal and nasopharyngeal cancer]
- Breast Cancer treatment
- Lung cancer treatment
- Gastrointestinal Cancer[ Oesophagus, stomach, Colon, Pancreas, gall Baldder, Liver and Hepatobiliary Tract, Gastrointestinal stromal tumours ]treatment
- Genitourinary Cancer[ Kidney, Bladder, Testticular, Prostate]treatment
- Bone Tumours[ Sarcomas]
- Brain Tumours [Glioma, Metastasis to brain]
- Hemato-Lymphoid Cancers [Lymphomas, Blood cancers]