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Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Cancer Centre, Varanasi
Tata Memorial Centre's two hospitals in Varanasi bring comprehensive cancer care to the Gangetic plain, one of the most under-served and highest-burden regions in India for oral, cervical and gallbladder cancer.
Also called: HBCH VaranasiMPMMCCTata Memorial Centre Varanasi
Overview
The Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital (Lahartara) and the Mahamana Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya Cancer Centre (Sundar Bagiya) are units of the Tata Memorial Centre under the Department of Atomic Energy, and part of a national expansion that also includes Tata Memorial units in Sangrur and Mullanpur (Punjab), Visakhapatnam, Muzaffarpur (Bihar) and the Dr B. Borooah Cancer Institute in Guwahati. Varanasi was chosen because eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar have very high rates of tobacco-related oral cancer, cervical cancer and gallbladder cancer and had almost no tertiary cancer capacity.
The centres deliver surgical, medical, radiation and paediatric oncology on the Tata Memorial model of free or subsidised care for most patients, and have become research sites in their own right: the METRO PLUS randomised trial from Varanasi (JCO Global Oncology 2026, 238 patients) found that adding low-cost oral metronomic chemotherapy to paclitaxel-carboplatin in advanced head and neck cancer doubled median survival from 5 to 10 months, and the INSIGHT-HRR cohort mapped germline homologous recombination repair variants in a large north Indian cohort.
Location
Varanasi, IN
Type
cancer center · Homi Bhabha National Institute
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#158 · 32 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 32 from 16 linked objects) · ranking
- Head and neck cancer
- Gallbladder and gastrointestinal cancers
- Cervical cancer
- Paediatric oncology
- Low-cost trials (METRO PLUS)
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