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Dr Vishal U S Rao – Bangalore Karnataka

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Dr Vishal U S Rao

HealthCare Global HCG Cacner Centre.

  • Endocrine Surgery
  • Head and Neck Research
  • Head and Neck Surgeon
  • Reconstructive Head & Neck Surgery

HCG Cancer Center, Tower 4, 2rd Floor, Room no.221, 8 HCG Towers P. Kalinga Rao Road
Sampangi Ram Nagar
Bangalore, Karnataka 560027
India
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Dr (Prof) U S Vishal Rao - MS, FRCS (Glasgow) FACS (USA) and Fellow of Royal Society of Medicine.

He is currently the Country Director - Head Neck Surgical Oncology & Robotic Surgery at HCG Cancer centre Bengaluru. He is also the Dean - Centre of Academics & Research for HCG Group .

He has 18 patents filed to his credit and his social invention of Aum voice prosthesis is considered among 100 global social innovations that has impacted 1000’s of lives giving voice to throat cancer patient. He has also invented 3 cancer medicine and honoured by Cambridge university for his work in cancer immunology with grants and collaboration to take his work forward to impact globe.

He has more than 100 national and international publication to his credit .

He was recently awarded and featured among the 50 most influential Indians from around the world at the Statue of Liberty in New York.

He is receipt of various awards from State as international bodies such as Kempegowda award by Govt and Judy Wilenfied award for Global Tobacco control by WHO Partners.

Member - Consultative Group to Principal Scientific Advisor to PM - Govt of India

Member of Vision group on Biotechnology - Govt of Karnataka

Member of High Power Committee on Tobacco Control & Cancer Control - Govt of Karnataka

  1. Low dose neoadjuvant immunotherapy in locally advanced oral cancers
  2. Aum voice prosthesis - a novel, patented voice prosthesis for voice restoration following total laryngectomy

Description

My Radiologist Dr.Arya and Me published this paper that modified the Shamblins classification for management of Carotid body tumours. This resulted in changing the clinical practise to planning the classification pre operatively

Citations

  1. Arya S, Rao V, Juvekar S, Dcruz AK. Carotid body tumors: objective criteria to predict the Shamblin group on MR imaging. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol. 2008 Aug;29(7):1349-54. PubMed Central ID: PMC8119135.

Description

This paper was written after Dcruz et al published NEJM RCT showed neck dissection improved survival in early oral cancer. The idea was to highlight that there was still scope for careful observation of neck in patients and was feasible.

Citations

  1. Rao VU, Patil PH, Rajaram BV. Management of the neck in early oral cancers: Is the verdict out?. J Cancer Res Ther. 2016 Jul-Sep;12(3):1114-1116. PubMed ID: 28054520.

Description

WE describe a novel surgical technique to operate carotid body tumours more effectively using internal to external carotid artery approaches. This saves times, improves efficiency and thus minimises morbidity.

Citations

  1. Rao USV, Chatterjee S, Patil AA, Nayar RC. The "INT-EX Technique": Internal to External Approach in Carotid Body Tumour Surgery. Indian J Surg Oncol. 2017 Jun;8(2):249-252. PubMed Central ID: PMC5427025.

Description

Article published in Lancet where we highlighted the management of patients with less than complete response at the neck after chemoradiation.

Citations

  1. Rao VU, Shenoy AM. Adjuvant neck dissection after chemoradiotherapy. Lancet Oncol. 2010 Mar;11(3):223-4. PubMed ID: 20202607.

Description

Through this article we highlight the changing biology of small thyroid cancers, While the current consensus is building towards Less ins More in Thyroid cancers.

Citations
  1. Vishal Rao US, Koya S, Gandla S, Chatterjee S, Patil AA, Nayar RC, Kallur K. Small-Sized Thyroid Cancers-a Single Institutional Experience in India. Indian J Surg Oncol. 2018 Mar;9(1):35-38. PubMed Central ID: PMC5856689.