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Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar
India's second oldest cancer hospital (1954), founded by Muthulakshmi Reddy and led for decades by V. Shanta, and the home of India's first population cancer registry.
Also called: Adyar Cancer InstituteCancer Institute WIA
Overview
The Cancer Institute (WIA) was founded in 1954 in Adyar, Chennai, by Dr Muthulakshmi Reddy under the Women's Indian Association and built by Dr S. Krishnamurthi and Dr V. Shanta into a charitable comprehensive cancer centre that treats most patients free or at subsidised cost. It established India's first population-based cancer registry (Madras Metropolitan Tumour Registry, 1982), installed India's first cobalt teletherapy unit and later its first medical cyclotron in a cancer hospital, and pioneered Indian clinical trials in cervical cancer, paediatric leukaemia and oral cancer, including the landmark cluster-randomised trials of visual inspection screening for cervical cancer with IARC. It hosts a WHO collaborating centre for cancer registration and the Dr Krishnamurthi college of oncological sciences.
Location
Chennai, IN
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#199 · 28 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 28 from 14 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-10-01.
Matched to Cancer Institute (WIA), including child institutions. 76 works · 1,309 citations · 72% open access · 4% clinical trials · 0% reviews.
Oncology works per year
202022
132023
102024
182025
152026
Most works
- Surendran Veeraiah18 works
- Venkatraman Srinivasan Radhakrishnan13 works
- Rajaraman Swaminathan10 works
- Arvind Krishnamurthy8 works
- Ramakrishnan Ayloor Seshadri7 works
- Smita Kayal6 works
- Hasmukh Jain6 works
- Lingaraj Nayak6 works
- Prasanth Ganesan6 works
- Manju Sengar6 works
Most cited
- Madras cancer registry
- Cervical cancer screening trials
- Paediatric oncology
- Charitable cancer care
Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan
Former Head, Early Detection and Prevention Section and Screening Group, IARC; screening trialist
Cancer screening trialsCervical cancer preventionOral cancer screening
Ran the large Indian trials that showed a single round of HPV testing halves cervical cancer deaths and that visual oral examination cuts deaths in tobacco users, and led the study behind single-dose HPV vaccination.
V. Shanta
Chairman and former Director, Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar (1927-2021)
Medical oncologyPaediatric oncologyCancer registries
The doctor who spent 66 years building Chennai's Cancer Institute into a hospital where most patients are treated free, and who set up India's first population cancer registry and paediatric oncology unit.
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