Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram

The Regional Cancer Centre 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. It is located in the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College campus. 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 cancer. The clinics are mainly on Hematology, Lymphoreticular, soft tissue, bone, head and neck, breast/CNS, gynaec/urinary, chest, gastro, paediatric oncology and thyroid.BackgroundThe RCC was established in 1981 as one among six such centres in India. During the formation period the state government transferred a few departments of the Medical College, Thiruvananathapuram, which were primarily concerned with cancer care to the Regional Cancer Centre.The RCC is an autonomous scientific institution sponsored jointly by the government of Kerala and the government of India. It has been designated as a Science and Technology Centre in the health sector by the state government.The first Community Oncology division in India was established in RCC, Thiruvananthapuram, in 1985.Hospital Based Cancer RegistryThe Hospital Based Cancer Registry, Trivandrum, was established at the Regional Cancer Centre in 1982 as part of the National Cancer Registry Programme of the Indian Council of Medical.Research. The HBCR has been collecting information on cancer patients reporting to the RCC, Medical College Hospital, SAT hospital for Women and Children and Dental College, Trivandrum from 1 January 1982.