The location will serve as a hub for medical staff
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has launched MSKCC India to provide cancer patients in India with access to the institution’s world-renowned oncologists, research, clinical trials, and education. The effort stems from the institution’s core mission of advancing transformative cancer care through education and research worldwide.
MSKCC India will open a physical location in Chennai, centrally located for patients and staff members. The location will serve as a hub for medical staff who will help patients coordinate written or virtual consultations, and they will be able to communicate in English, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. If necessary, employees will also be able to collect medical records from patients’ homes, making the process more convenient for those utilising this service. Patients across India will be able to obtain a remote opinion from experts at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the comfort of their home or any Internet-enabled location without travelling to MSKCC India in Chennai.
As part of this first-of-its-kind offering, MSKCC India will provide remote opinions via video or written consultations. A Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center oncologist who specialises in a patient’s form of cancer will review their medical records, test results, and other materials and provide a comprehensive written opinion, meet with the patient virtually using telemedicine technology, or speak with the patient’s local oncologist about their diagnosis and care plan. In some cases, they may recommend that the patient travel receive care at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
Specific services include: Pathology diagnosis, radiology scan reviews Next-generation sequencing (MSK-IMPACTTM) of a patient’s tumour and treatment recommendations and travel assistance to New York City.
“Meeting the needs of cancer patients in India and improving their long-term health and survival rates will require close collaboration with the cancer community in India, and MSKCC India marks an important first step toward advancing such collaborations,” said Sir Murray Brennan, MD, Senior Vice President of International Programs, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. “MSKCC India will help serve the needs of cancer patients and their physicians to improve their cancer care.”
As part of this effort to bring world-class care to people in India diagnosed with cancer, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has partnered with iCliniq, a leading global telemedicine provider based in India. This partnership is the first-of-its-kind for both iCliniq and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
