# Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology

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## TL;DR

Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology in Bengaluru is Karnataka's state cancer institute and one of India's Regional Cancer Centres; it treats a predominantly poor population from southern India at low cost and hosts the Bangalore cancer registry, one of India's oldest.

## Summary

Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology was founded in 1973 in Bengaluru, named after Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, and is an autonomous institute of the Government of Karnataka and a Regional Cancer Centre under India's National Cancer Control Programme. It provides surgical, medical, radiation and paediatric oncology to a predominantly poor population, hosts the Bangalore population-based cancer registry (one of India's oldest), and trains a large cohort of oncology specialists. Kidwai participates in Indian cooperative trials, hosts hereditary cancer and tobacco cessation clinics, and has expanded with new radiotherapy machines and peripheral cancer centres across the state.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: KMIO; Kidwai
- City: Bengaluru, IN
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://kidwai.karnataka.gov.in

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidwai_Memorial_Institute_of_Oncology
- Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology: https://kidwai.karnataka.gov.in

## Connected records

- technologies: [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/), [Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries](https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/)
- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/)
- fronts: [Prevention & Risk](https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/), [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- people: [T. Naveen](https://onco.cc/people/t-naveen/)
- institutions: [National Cancer Grid of India](https://onco.cc/institutions/national-cancer-grid/), [National Cancer Registry Programme (ICMR-NINE, Bengaluru)](https://onco.cc/institutions/icmr-ncrp/)

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