Type | Cancer Care and Research center |
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Established | 1981 |
Director | Dr. Rekha A Nair |
Location | , , 8°31′13″N 76°55′28″E / 8.52014760°N 76.92451299°E |
Nickname | RCC |
Website | http://rcctvm.gov.in/ |
The Regional Cancer Centre (RCC) at Thiruvananthapuram is a cancer care hospital and research centre. RCC was established in 1981 by the Government of Kerala and the Government of India.[1] It is located in the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College campus in Thiruvananthapuram, the capital city of the state of Kerala. It was established as an expansion of the Radiation Therapy / Radiotherapy department of Medical College Trivandrum. It is a tertiary care center for the managements of all types of cancers. The clinics are mainly on Haematology, Lymphoreticular, soft tissue, bone, head and neck, breast, CNS, gynaecological, urinary, chest, gastro, paediatric oncology and thyroid.