Dr. Shikhar Kumar — Consultant Medical Oncologist in Hyderabad

Dr. Shikhar Kumar is a Consultant Medical Oncologist at Yashoda Hospitals in Hitec City, Hyderabad, with more than 13 years of experience. His profile records medical oncology together with hematological malignancies.

His treatment list is chemotherapy for cancer, cancer immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormone therapy for breast and for prostate cancer.

He trained in radiation oncology before medical oncology, which a small number of medical oncologists do. He read MBBS at Kamineni Institute of Medical Sciences in Narketpally in 2012, interned at Gandhi Medical College in Hyderabad, took his MD in radiation oncology at PGIMER in Chandigarh between 2013 and 2016 and a DNB in the same subject in December 2016, then held a senior residency at AIIMS in New Delhi. His DM in medical oncology followed at Tata Memorial Hospital in Parel, Mumbai, between 2017 and 2020, and he stayed there as an ad-hoc assistant professor for a further year. He became a European certified medical oncologist in 2021.

That double training shows in his publications, which cross the two fields. He has written on the role of stereotactic body radiation therapy in liver metastasis in J Cancer Res Ther in 2019, on advances in pharmacotherapy for head and neck cancer in Expert Opin Pharmacother in 2021, on compliance with radical treatment of middle thoracic esophageal cancer in 2016, on fractionated palliative pelvic radiotherapy in recurrent epithelial ovarian cancers in 2017, and on molecular targets in urinary bladder cancer in 2022.

His awards include first prize in the Young ICON 2020 quiz and the best outgoing student gold medal in MBBS.