At Apollo Hospital press meet in Madurai on May 22nd 2026 for pancreatic cancer success.
MADURAI: The oncology team’s medical excellence at Apollo Speciality Hospitals in Madurai was once again established by successfully performing advanced microwave ablation procedure for a 78-year-old male patient from Rajapalayam recently who was suffering from pancreatic cancer.
By doing a minimally invasive procedure, the team of doctors from multi-disciplinary specialities had removed the cancer tumour and destroyed cancer cells which is widely seen as a challenging cancer because pancreas is an important gland in human body that is very important for digestion, gastro management and particularly for ‘sugar’ diabetes patients.
At a press meet conducted by Apollo Speciality Hospitals in Madurai today-May 22nd 2026-, the doctors team had explained about its success in advanced microwave ablation procedure done for pancreas cancer male patient two months back.
“This is an advancement in management of pancreatic tumours. We burn the cancer tumour with a minimally invasive technique by microwave heat generation. The 78-year-old patient was discharged in a stable condition thanks to our oncologists and radiologists who targeted the tumour precisely and removed it,” Dr.J.Madhusudhanan, consultant surgical gastroenterologist, told reporters at the press meet held in Apollo Speciality Hospitals in Madurai on May 22nd 2026.
HOW THE PATIENT CAME TO APOLLO?:
Doctors said that the elderly patient came to Madurai Apollo with discolouration of urine, loss of appetite and weight loss.
Our detailed evaluation and diagnosis had confirmed that he had carcinoma of pancreas. Finally, he underwent Bilio-Digestive Bypass through our microwave ablation. The cancer cells were destroyed with a targeted tumour destruction method,” Dr.A.John Robert, interventional radiologist, told reporters here today.
The medical team included surgical gastroenterologist Dr.Srinivasan Ramachandran and medical gastroenterologists Dr.P.Rajesh Prabhu, Dr.C.Praveen Kumar, Dr.V.S.Venkatesh and interventional radiologist Dr.K.B.Santhosh Babu.
“Pancreas is an important part in our body. We used needle and microwave technique to remove the cancer tumour with a minimal invasive procedure. This success shows the treatment strengths of our gastrointestinal oncology with new gen technology. Smoking and alcohol along are major risk factors for pancreas cancer besides diabetes,” the Apollo Hospital team in Madurai said at the press meet today.
Among those who were present at the press conference include the Chief Operating Officer of Apollo Hospitals (ROTN) Dr.Nikhil Tiwari and Dr.K.Praveen Rajan, Joint Director-Medical Services of Apollo Speciality Hospitals in Madurai.
The doctors said that this microwave ablation procedure can be done for treating all types of cancer and patients will undergo just minimal incision even for complex cases.
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