About :
Dr Pratap Varma Penmetsa is one of the top Surgical Oncologists in India. He has over 18 years of rich experience in Surgical Oncology. He is working as a Senior Consultant - Surgical Oncology & Thoracic Surgery, Laparoscopic, Robotic, and HIPEC Surgeon at the Citizens Specialty Hospital, Hyderabad.
He has a strong academic and research background, presenting papers and posters at esteemed conferences, covering various topics in oncology. He participated as faculty in conferences and conducted CME programs and cancer screening initiatives both nationally and internationally.
Before joining Citizens Specialty Hospital, Hyderabad, Dr Pratap worked at some of the prestigious multi-specialty hospitals in India and abroad including Apollo Hospital – Hyderabad, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology – Bengaluru, Aditya Hospital – Hyderabad, Adyar Cancer Institute – Chennai, University of Nebraska Medical Center - Omaha, USA, Basavatarakam Indo American Cancer Hospital and Research Institute - Hyderabad, CARE Hospitals, Hyderabad, and Medicover Cancer Institute – Hyderabad.
Qualifications :
- MBBS – Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (2000)
- MS (General Surgery) – Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (2005)
- Senior Resident/ Registrar in Surgical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru (2008)
- MCh (Surgical Oncology) – Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru (2014)
- One-month Observership (Surgical Oncology) - University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, USA (2013)
- One-month Observership (Thoracic Surgery and Oncology) - Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA (2018)
Area Of Expertise :
- Minimally invasive cancer surgeries
- Thoracic Surgery and Oncology
Languages :
- English
- Hindi
- Telugu
- Kannada
Publications :
- Poster titled ‘Mucositis Scoring System in patients receiving adjuvant radiation for oral malignancies’ in European Journal of Cancer Supplements. Volume 5, Issue 4: page 342, September 2007.
- V Satya Suresh Attili, Ullas Batra, PP Bapsy, D Lokanatha, R Clementeena, PP Varma, M Malati, Kamal VS Saini. Skin nodules as a presenting feature of diffuse large B cell Gastric Lymphoma. Indian Journal of Dermatology. Volume 53, Issue 1: pages 38-39, 2008.
- Attili VS, Bapsy PP, Ramachandra C, Reddy CO, Prabhakaran PS, Varma PP, Chandra VR. Influence of postoperative complications on relapse-free survival in gastrointestinal malignancies. Gastrointestinal Cancer Res. 2009 Sep;3(5):179-82.
- Suresh A, Varma PP, Sinha S, Deepika S, Raman R, Srinivasan M, Mandapal T, Reddy C O, Anand B B. Risk-scoring system for predicting mucositis in patients of head and neck cancer receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy [rssm-hn]. J Can Res Ther 2010; 6:448-51.
- Nusrath, S., Goel, V., Varma, P. et al. Ovarian Cancer and Mayer–Rokitansky–Küster–Hauser (MRKH) Syndrome a Rare Combination. Indian J Gynecol Oncology (2016) 14: 30.
