Dr. Pampanagouda S K M Specialist in Surgical Oncology

Introduction

Dr. Pampanagouda S K M is a highly skilled and experienced surgical oncologist with expertise in a wide range of specialties, such as breast cancer, colorectal cancer, gynaecologic cancer, head and neck cancer, and thyroid cancers. He is an American Board eligible surgeon with training in colorectal Surgery from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, New York. Dr. Pampanagouda is also a strong advocate for cancer prevention strategies and actively promotes healthy lifestyle, diet, physical exercise, and cancer screening programmes.

Area of Expertise

Dr. Pampanagouda S K M, completed MS, General Surgery from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bengaluru and pursued his Super Specialisation M.Ch, Surgical Oncology from renowed Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bengaluru.
He is an American Board eligible Surgeon with training in ColoRectal Surgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer, New York.
He also takes keen interest in Cancer Prevention strategies to educate the public like tobacco cessation, healthy lifestyle, the role of diet and the physical exercise in cancer prevention and encourage cancer screening programmes to detect cancers in the early stage in the society.
Dr. Pampanagouda’s special interest lies in Breast Cancer management with Breast Conservative Surgeries, Breast reconstruction, Sentinel Lymph Node biopsies, Colorectal cancer, Gynaecologic Cancer Treatment by Cytoreductive surgery, Peritonectomy and Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy for Cancer Ovary, Management of Cancer Cervix and Endometrial Cancer, Head and Neck cancers including Oral cancer with reconstruction, Thyroid cancer and Salivary gland cancer, Neck Surgeries such as Radical, Modified and Selective neck dissections.
Secondary interest lies in Thoracic cancers – Lung cancers and Esophageal cancers, Stomach cancer, Renal cancer, Urinary Bladder cancer etc.
Oncoplasty to retain the cosmetic outcome to reduce the psychological impact, and to regain functional outcome following cancer surgery, and preventive oncosurgery.
He has handled over 3000 cases so far.

Research & Publications

Pampanagouda S K M, Suryadevara S, Kumar V, Deshmane V, Mukunda M, Jaipal. Umbilical Metastasis as the Manifestation of an Asymptomatic Gallbladder Carcinoma. Online J Health Allied Scs. 2014;13(1):7.
Sailaja Suryadevara, Veerendra Kumar K V, Pampanagouda S K M, Ravi Arjun, Vijalakshmi Deshmani.
Colorectal Cancer profile in tertiary care center in India. Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences. Volume 13, Issue 1; Jan-Mar 2014
Pampanagouda Somalapura; Harishkumar Hanumappa; Veerendrakumar Kariyanakatte Veeraiah. Postoperative hyperglycemia in nondiabetic Indian Cancer patients.
Journal of evolution medical and dental sciences. Evolution Med. Dent. Sci. Vol. 05/ Issue 26/ Mar. 31, 2016. 1363 - 1365.
Pampanagouda Somalapura; Sailaja Suryadevara; Veerendra Kumar. Analysis of tumor length and clinicopathological features in carcinoma Esophagus. Journal of evolution of Medical and dental sciences. J. Evolution Med. Dent. Sci. 2016;5(49):3145-3148.
Ravi Arjunan; Pampanagouda S.K.M; Syed Althaf; Harshavardhan Pokharkar; Ajeet Ramamani Tiwari; K V Veerendra Kumar.
Smoking and alcohol increase postoperative complication rate in esophageal cancers – Experience of 150 Esophageal cancer cases at a tertiary cancer care center. International journal of Scientific Research, Volume-6, ISSUE-3, MARCH – 2017, 179 – 181.
T. T. Singh; S. Pampanagouda; M. Soni; S. Sirop; A. Singla; D. Wiese; R. Golovoy; S. Defriez and S. Saha. Comparative analysis of CT scan, PET scan, and CT angioportogram with intraoperative ultrasound in detecting liver metastases.
Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2010, Vol 28, NO 15_suppl (May 20 Supplement), 2010: e14626.
S. Saha; S. Sirop; M. Soni; A. Korant; B. Chakravarty; S. Pampanagouda; D. Wiese. Lymph node Micrometastasis (Micromets) Correlated to other Prognostic factors in Colon Cancer (CCa). Annals of Surgical Oncology. 2010 Feb; 17(1): 82
Sukamal Saha; Maher Ghanem; Bishan Chakravarty; Anton Bilchik; Pampanagouda; David Wiese; Hesham Gayer; Jack Nettleton; Madan Arora; Trevor Singh. Nodal staging and recurrence in Rectal Cancer Patients undergoing Sentinel Lymph Node Mapping Technique Compared to Conventional Surgery. ASTRO 2009, Chicago, IL.
Mehul Soni; Sukamal Saha; Alpesh Korant; Bishan Cha

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