About Doctor

Dr Anil Heroor is an Oncosurgeon trained at the Tata Memorial Hospital, a premier cancer institute in the country. He heads the Advanced Oncosurgery Unit at Fortis Hospitals Mumbai. He has completed his MBBS from the Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai. He did his general surgical training from the LTMG hospital, Sion, Mumbai. After passing MS, he did his surgical oncology training at the Tata Memorial Hospital performing numerous cancer surgeries. He has numerous publications including 17 international publications and presentations to his credit. He has received the Best Paper Award at two International Conferences for his work on Esophageal Malignancies. He is also a teaching faculty at Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS).

He has started the minimal access ( Laparoscopic & Robotic ) Surgery Unit in Fortis Hospital Mulund for Cancer. The unit trains young surgeons in minimal access Onco surgery.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Visiting Research Fellow in 2001 in the Department of Esophageal Diseases with Prof. Fujita at the Kurume University Hospital, Japan on a project analyzing the results of postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy on patients undergoing three field esophagectomy.
• Clinical Observer in 2001 at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York USA, with the Thoracic Services. Worked on a review of Multimodality treatment of Cancer Esophagus.
• Visited the New York Presbyterian Hospital and attended the surgeries conducted by Dr Altorki who is a leading figure in the field of Cancer Esophagus.
• Attended Dept of Colorectal surgery in Samsung Medical Center, Seoul. for “Laparoscopic Surgery in Colorectal Cancer and hands-on Workshop “in Seoul, South Korea.

Areas Of Expertise

• Gastrointestinal Cancers
• Colon and Rectal Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Lung Cancer
• Gynaecological Cancers
• Robotic and Minimal Access Surgery for Cancer