{"entity":{"id":"badwe-rajendra","kind":"person","name":"Rajendra Badwe","aka":[],"tldr":"A surgeon-scientist whose low-cost randomised trials, from peritumoral lidocaine to timing of surgery, challenged assumptions in breast cancer.","summary":"Rajendra Badwe is a breast surgical oncologist and former Director of the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai, which he led for more than a decade. He is a surgeon-scientist whose low-cost randomised trials, from peritumoral lidocaine to the timing of surgery, challenged assumptions in breast cancer, and he ran large pragmatic trials in the disease. His publications include the randomised trial of peritumoral infiltration of local anaesthetic before surgery in early breast cancer. His interests are breast surgery, surgical oncology trials and perioperative interventions.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Tata Memorial Centre","url":"https://tmc.gov.in"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Badwe%20RA%5BAuthor%5D%20Tata%20Memorial%20breast"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-hr-positive","tnbc"],"sections":[],"technologies":["robotic-surgery"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["tata-memorial"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Former Director, Tata Memorial Centre; breast surgical oncologist","institutionId":"tata-memorial","specialisms":["Breast surgery","Surgical oncology trials","Perioperative interventions"],"profiles":[{"label":"Tata Memorial Centre","url":"https://tmc.gov.in"},{"label":"PubMed author search","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Badwe%20RA%5BAuthor%5D%20Tata%20Memorial%20breast"}],"papers":[{"title":"Effect of peritumoral infiltration of local anesthetic before surgery on survival in early breast cancer","journal":"Journal of Clinical Oncology","year":2023,"doi":"10.1200/JCO.22.01966"},{"title":"Single-injection depot progesterone before surgery and survival in operable breast cancer","journal":"Journal of Clinical Oncology","year":2011,"url":"https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.2010.33.0738","doi":"10.1200/JCO.2010.33.0738"}]},"route":"/people/badwe-rajendra/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-hr-positive","kind":"cancer","name":"HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer","route":"/cancers/breast-hr-positive/"},{"id":"tnbc","kind":"cancer","name":"Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC)","route":"/cancers/tnbc/"}],"technology":[{"id":"robotic-surgery","kind":"technology","name":"Robotic & minimally invasive surgery","route":"/technologies/robotic-surgery/"}],"institution":[{"id":"actrec","kind":"institution","name":"Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer","route":"/institutions/actrec/"},{"id":"national-cancer-grid","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Grid of India","route":"/institutions/national-cancer-grid/"},{"id":"tata-memorial","kind":"institution","name":"Tata Memorial Centre","route":"/institutions/tata-memorial/"}],"idea":[{"id":"idea-fund-lmic-burden-match","kind":"idea","name":"Burden-matched funding for trials led in low- and middle-income countries","route":"/ideas/idea-fund-lmic-burden-match/"}],"trial":[{"id":"lidocaine-peritumoral-tmh","kind":"trial","name":"Peritumoral lidocaine before breast cancer surgery (Tata Memorial)","route":"/trials/lidocaine-peritumoral-tmh/"},{"id":"progesterone-preop-tmh","kind":"trial","name":"Single-injection depot progesterone before breast surgery (Tata Memorial)","route":"/trials/progesterone-preop-tmh/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-badwe-progesterone-jco-2011","kind":"paper","name":"Single-injection depot progesterone before surgery and survival in operable breast cancer","route":"/key-papers/paper-badwe-progesterone-jco-2011/"}]}}