Dr. Harish Dara

• Over 15 years of experience in surgical oncology, treating a broad spectrum of cancers with both traditional and advanced techniques.
• Expert in robotic and laparoscopic cancer surgeries, offering minimally invasive solutions that reduce pain, improve recovery, and enhance precision.
• Specializing in HIPEC (Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy) and cytoreductive surgeries for peritoneal surface malignancies — a rare, high-end cancer treatment available at very few centers in India.
• Extensively trained in GI, uro-oncology, thoracic, gynecologic, and head & neck cancers, with expertise in both curative and function-preserving surgeries.
• Known for performing complex oral cancer surgeries with advanced reconstruction techniques that restore speech, swallowing, and facial structure.
• Believes in multidisciplinary treatment planning, playing a key role in tumor boards to ensure every patient receives the most personalized and effective care.
• Regularly handles high-risk, recurrent, and metastatic cancer cases where other treatments have failed, offering surgical hope with advanced tools and planning.
• Deeply committed to patient care, taking time to educate patients and families, ensuring informed decisions and emotional support throughout the treatment journey.
• Recognized for his precision, surgical planning, and ethical, compassionate care, making him a trusted name in oncology surgery.

• Expert in minimally invasive techniques for GI, urological, and gynecologic cancers.
• Enhances precision, reduces post-op pain, shortens hospital stays, and speeds up recovery.
• Especially skilled in nerve-sparing pelvic surgeries using robotic platforms.

• Specialist in cytoreductive surgery followed by heated chemotherapy infusion.
• Treats complex peritoneal surface cancers like pseudomyxoma peritonei, ovarian, and colorectal carcinomatosis.
• Focused on achieving complete tumor removal and improving long-term survival in select patients.

• Performs extensive resections for oral cavity cancers.
• Reconstructs with local, regional, or microvascular flaps to restore aesthetics and functionality.
• Emphasizes speech, swallowing, and quality of life post-surgery.

• Treats cancers of the stomach, colon, rectum, pancreas, and small intestine.
• Offers both open and minimally invasive resections, often combined with HIPEC when needed.
• Skilled in complex anastomoses and multivisceral resections.

• Expert in surgeries for lung and esophageal cancers, including lobectomy, pneumonectomy, and esophagectomy.
• Performs mediastinal tumor excisions with oncologic precision.
• Balances radical resection with lung-function preservation.

• Manages endometrial, cervical, and ovarian cancers with both fertility-sparing and radical approaches.
• Performs HIPEC in advanced ovarian cancers for better disease control.
• Integrates surgical and systemic treatments in advanced-stage cases.

• Conducts surgeries for kidney, bladder, and prostate cancers.
• Skilled in radical nephrectomy, nephroureterectomy, and cystectomy.
• Incorporates minimally invasive techniques for quicker recovery.

1. Single Centre Data on Role of Level 2b Lymph Node Dissection in Carcinoma Oral Cavity
   IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS)
   • e-ISSN: 2279-0853 | p-ISSN: 2279-0861
   • Volume 21, Issue 4, Series 4 (April 2022), pp. 52–83
2. Dose Dense Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Patients – A Single Center Experience from South India
   IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS)
   • Volume 21, Issue 6 (2022), pp. 01–05
3. Plasma Cell Mastitis Mimicking Carcinoma of the Breast: A Case Report and Review of the Literature
   IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences (IOSR-JDMS)
   • e-ISSN: 2279-0853 | p-ISSN: 2279-0861
   • Volume 13, Issue 2, Ver. III (Feb 2014), pp. 28–31