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Guides & downloads
The website stays short on purpose. The detail lives here, in guides you can read at home, show your family, or hand to another doctor.
For patients and families
Patient guides
Cancer Care Guide
The whole journey, step by step. Written for someone diagnosed last week who has not slept.
Second Opinion Guide
What to send, what comes back, what it costs, and how to ask your doctor without offending them.
Precision Oncology Guide
What "precision" actually means, in language a family can follow.
OnKommon Guide
The molecular layer, explained, and where the human signature sits.
Molecular Testing Guide
Which test, why, what it costs, and what a result does and does not tell you.
Surgery Guide
Before you agree to an operation. Written for a patient holding an operative recommendation.
Survivorship Guide
What happens after treatment ends, and the care plan template itself.
Preventive Health Guide
What screening is appropriate for you, and what is not.
Women's Health Guide
Screening, HPV, hereditary risk and the gynaecology pathway.
Men's Health Guide
PSA, prostate risk, metabolic health and what the numbers actually mean.
Family Risk & Genetics Guide
The one you hand to a relative. Written to be readable by someone who is not the patient.
Practical toolkits
The things nobody hands you
Short, printable, and written for the person doing the work, often not the patient.
Caregiver Toolkit
For the person managing everything else. Practical care skills, what to watch for, and how not to collapse doing it.
Cost & Schemes Toolkit
What treatment actually costs, what help exists, and the documents each scheme wants before it will say yes.
Records Checklist
One page. Take it to any hospital and it tells them exactly what to give you.
Questions To Ask Your Doctor
Cut out and take in. Separate sets for diagnosis, before surgery, before chemotherapy and at progression.
Plain-Language Glossary
Every word on a cancer report, explained without another word you also do not know.
Side Effects: What To Do, When To Call
Organised by symptom, with a clear line between manage at home, phone us today, and go now.
Eating Through Treatment
Written for whoever cooks. Indian foods, real portions, and what to do when nothing tastes right.
Returning To Work
Working-age patients ask about this before almost anything else, and almost nobody answers it.
Is This Trial Legitimate?
Four checks before you agree to anything described as research, or pay for anything described as a new treatment.
For hospitals and clinicians
Institutional documents
The website policies, privacy, terms, medical disclaimer, cookies, fees and refunds, complaints, editorial standards and accessibility, are published in full here.
POAS Hospital Guide
The leave-behind. Structured so a representative can walk a director through it in twenty minutes.
Referral Pack
For a referring physician: what to send, how, and what comes back.
Governance, Privacy & Consent
What is reviewed, by whom, how often, and what happens when something goes wrong.
Why the website stays short
Nobody absorbs a treatment decision from a web page while frightened. The site orients you; the guides carry the detail you will re-read three times.
Every guide passes the medical review gate before publication.
Governance
Published because the record is the product
Most Indian institutions treat governance as an internal burden. For a centre that intends to certify other centres, the governance record is the product.
- Written pathways for every clinic and reflex rules for every adjacent OPD, authored before the clinic opens
- A single controlled SOP and policy register, with an owner and an approver for every entry
- Consultant credentialing, qualification, registration, indemnity and scope of practice verified before the first session and re-verified annually
- A five-part consent framework: care, records transfer, genomic testing, research use and contact, each separate, documented and independently withdrawable
- The board record retained as the clinical audit trail
- Quarterly clinical audit of pathway adherence, reflex-rule compliance, turnaround and decision documentation
- No-blame incident and near-miss reporting, reviewed monthly
- A constituted Institutional Ethics Committee
- A marketing claim-control gate with a prohibited-claims list and medical review of all patient-facing content
Privacy & data
Your records are yours
- Five separate consents, each independently withdrawable. Refusing research consent changes nothing about your care.
- Not shared with any other institution without your specific instruction.
- Research use requires ethics approval and a written data-use agreement for every collaboration.
- Portable. The records vault gives you a summary you own and can hand to anyone.
- Pre-employment medicals: the candidate is our patient. Only the contracted fitness determination goes to the employer.
