Sai Yendamuri
Yashoda Hospitals & Roswell Park Cancer Institute, India
Title: Challenges facing the surgical management of lung cancer in India
Biography
Biography: Sai Yendamuri
Abstract
Lung cancer is growing at epidemic proportions in India. The epidemiology of lung cancer in India is significantly different from that in the west. Patients with lung cancer in India are younger by a decade, non-smokers and financially unsound. Most care is delivered in a non-comprehensive and fragmented manner. The speaker is a thoracic surgical oncologist who has relocated from the United States after training and practicing in some of the world’s best institutions. He has now spent 2 years and performed almost 500 thoracic surgical operations in the country. The presentation is based on the speaker’s experience of practicing thoracic oncologic surgery in India comparing it to that in the West. The presentation will highlight the challenges of surgical management of these patients in India as well as identify opportunities for improvement with suggestions for practical solutions that may work better in the Indian setting.