IMRT Cost in Gurgaon, India

The cost of IMRT in Gurgaon typically ranges from $620 to $6,000 USD (about ₹58,800 to ₹5.69 lakh), depending on the hospital, room category and type of procedure.

A typical estimate for IMRT in Gurgaon is around $2,000 (about ₹1.90 lakh). What you pay depends mainly on your own case. If you need a short course or a standard treatment plan, your bill is likely to be closer to $620 (about ₹58,800). It is likely to be nearer $6,000 (about ₹5.69 lakh) if you need more cycles or sessions, newer medicines or a more advanced technique.

When comparing Gurgaon packages for IMRT, check whether each quote includes:

• Surgeon and anaesthetist fees
• Operating theatre or procedure room
• Planning scans
• Medicines or sessions per cycle
• Hospital stay and room category
• Medicines and consumables
• Follow-up visits before you fly home

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) shapes the radiation beams and varies their strength across the treatment area, so the tumour receives a high dose while nearby healthy tissue receives less.

Cancer Research UK describes IMRT as conformal radiotherapy that delivers different doses to different parts of the treatment area, which helps for head and neck, prostate and brain cancers lying close to sensitive tissue.

Cancer Research UK says that the kind of external radiotherapy chosen depends on the cancer and where it sits in the body.

The NHS points out that external radiotherapy does not make you radioactive, and that side effects including tiredness and skin changes depend on the area treated.

IMRT is normally given over a number of weeks, so plan to stay for the whole course and ask whether planning scans and follow-up are included.

Flying home: whether you can travel between treatments or after finishing depends on blood counts and side effects, and the oncologist will advise on dates.

A Gurgaon quote for IMRT is normally made up of these items:

• Scans to plan treatment: carried out before the first session.
• How many cycles or sessions: the main factor in the total.
• Drug or technique: medicine brand and dose, or the radiotherapy method.
• Sessions: normally a number of weeks.
• Planning scans: and mask or mould.
• Image checks: including IGRT.
• Cancer type and site: the complexity.

Radiotherapy is billed for a full course, so it is worth asking whether the Gurgaon estimate includes planning scans, every session, image checks and reviews.

Cancer care in Gurgaon is usually organised by hospital oncology departments in which medical, radiation and surgical oncologists review each case together at a tumour board.

NABH, the hospital accreditation board of the Quality Council of India whose standards carry ISQua accreditation, sets the national benchmark for hospitals, and its online directory shows whether a Gurgaon hospital's accreditation is still current.

Gurgaon is part of Delhi NCR, where India's first hospital to gain Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation did so in 2005, and JCI publishes a searchable list of the organisations it currently accredits.

Gurgaon was officially renamed Gurugram by the Haryana government in 2016, so hospital letters, maps and taxi apps may use either name.