Dr. Garvit Chitkara
Associate Director – Breast Oncology
Nanavati Max Institute of Cancer Care, Breast Cancer Program, Cancer Reconstructive Surgery Program
Nanavati Max Super Speciality Hospital, Mumbai
Experience: 15+ Years
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About Dr. Garvit Chitkara
- Associate Professor, Surgical Oncology (Breast Surgery), Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
- Observership in Breast Oncoplastic Surgery, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
- HBNI Fellowship in Breast Oncology at Tata memorial Hospital, Mumbai
- Senior Resident at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
- Senior Resident at Delhi State Cancer Institute, New Delhi
- HBNI Fellowship in Surgical Oncology (Breast) from Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
- DNB, General Surgery from National Board of Examination
- MBBS, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
- Association of Breast Surgeons of India (ABSI)
- Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
- European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO)
- Member, European Breast Cancer Research Association of Surgical Trialists (EUBREAST)
- Travel Fellowship to 12th European Breast Cancer Conference
- Certificate of Achievement: Harvard Medical School for HMX fundamentals-Genetics
- Breast Cancer Surgery
- Oncoplastic Breast Surgery
- Cancer Genomics
- Organ Preservation in Splenic Abscess: A Case Report. Med J Armed Forces India. 2014 Apr;70(2):195–197. Case report.
- Corrosive Tracheoesophageal Fistula Following Button Battery Ingestion. Indian Pediatr. 2012 Feb;49(2):145–146. Case report.
- Non-Manipulative Relief for Chronic Back Pain. BMJ. Rapid response.
- Study of Orofacial Response to a Manually Dexterous Task in Mentally Disabled Children. Presented at IAPSM. Paper presentation.
- Abdominoelectrography. In: Proceedings of Intelligent Systems and Communications; 2005, Manipal.
- Lymph Node Ratio as an Alternative to pN Staging in Node-Positive Breast Cancer. Presented at ISMPO 2015. Poster presentation.
- Low Axillary Sampling in Women with Clinically Node-Negative Breast Cancer Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Retrospective Study. Presented at Advances in Breast Cancer 2016, Mumbai. Poster presentation.
- Low Axillary Sampling in Women with Clinically Node-Negative Breast Cancer Post Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy: A Retrospective Study. Presented at Advances in Breast Cancer 2016, Mumbai. Oral presentation.
- Phyllodes: A Retrospective Audit. Presented at the 2nd Indian Cancer Congress, Bangalore. Oral presentation.
- Molecular Biology in the Breast Clinics—Current Status and Future Perspectives. Indian Journal of Surgical Oncology. doi:10.1007/s13193-019-00954-1.
- Management of Breast Cancer. In: Textbook of Clinical Oncology in the Indian Context. Book chapter.
- Inflammatory Breast Cancer. In: Roshan Lal Gupta’s Recent Advances in Surgery. 17th ed. 2021. Book chapter.
- Clinical Benefit of Circulating Tumour DNA Analysis in Early-Stage Breast Cancer. JAMA Oncol. Letter to the editor. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2019.5677.
- Tale of Constant Adaptation, Revision, and Change of Cancer Therapy During the Ongoing COVID Crisis: Adapting to Cope and Win. Indian Journal of Medical and Paediatric Oncology. 2020;41(2).
- Validation of Nomograms to Predict Non-Sentinel Lymph Node Metastasis After Positive Sentinel Lymph Node in Breast Cancer: Indian Cohort Background. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(15_suppl):568–568. Conference abstract.
- En Bloc Excision of Phyllodes Tumour of the Breast: Radical Approach Heralds Better Outcome. Clinical Breast Cancer. 2020. doi:10.1016/j.clbc.2020.09.002.
- Can We Avoid Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (ALND) in Patients with 1–2 Positive Sentinel/Low Axillary Lymph Nodes (SLN/LAS+) in the Indian Setting? Indian J Surg Oncol. 2021. doi:10.1007/s13193-021-01297-6.
- Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Surgeons for Breast Conserving Surgery: Results from an Indian Cohort. European Journal of Cancer. doi:10.1016/S0959-8049(20)30611-0.
- Access to HER2-Targeted Therapy at a Tertiary Care Centre in India: An Evolution. Indian J Cancer. 2021 Mar 21. doi:10.4103/ijc.IJC_841_19.
- Clinical Course and Outcome of Patients with COVID-19 in Mumbai City: An Observational Study. BMJ Open. 2021;11:e042943. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2020-042943.
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