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Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology
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.
Also called: KMIOKidwai
Overview
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.
Location
Bengaluru, IN
Type
cancer center
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#336 · 20 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 20 from 10 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-15.
Matched to Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, including child institutions. 61 works · 45 citations · 54% open access · 8% clinical trials · 0% reviews.
Oncology works per year
102022
82023
92024
202025
142026
Most works
- Smitha Saldanha14 works
- Pavan Sugoor12 works
- L K Rajeev11 works
- Linu Abraham Jacob7 works
- K.N. Lokesh7 works
- K.N. Lokesh6 works
- A.H. Rudresha6 works
- Smitha C. Saldanha5 works
- Deepa Aggarwal5 works
- Adithya Sathya Narayana4 works
Most cited
- Regional Cancer Centre
- Bangalore cancer registry
- Paediatric oncology
- Radiotherapy access
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