Dr. Rajesh Mistry

Dr Rajesh Mistry is a well-known Surgical Oncologist currently associated as a Director and Consultant with Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital And Medical Research Institute, Andheri West.

He has 42 years of experience in Oncology and has worked at Tata Memorial Hospital and KEM Hospital, Mumbai.

Since 2009, he has performed over 500 esophageal surgeries and more than 300 pulmonary surgeries, in addition to numerous procedures for gastric cancers, head and neck cancers, and other benign and malignant thoracic pathologies.

From 2009 to 2015 alone, he performed a total of 690 thoracic oncology cases.

The speciality interests of Dr Rajesh Mistry are in:-

• Oesophageal surgery,
• VATS and Robotic
• Pulmonary surgery (Malignant and Benign)
• VATS and Robotic
• Cancer of Thymus and other mediastinal masses
• Chest wall tumours
• Gastric Cancer
• Head Neck Oncology

Dr Rajesh Mistry did his:-

• MBBS from Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai in 1984
• MS General Surgery from Seth G S Medical College & KEM Hospital Mumbai
• Fellowship in Laparoscopic and Surgical Oncology from Tata Memoral Centre in 1992

Dr Mistry has been actively involved in medical education and training, having served as a teacher for MCh Surgical Oncology at MHU and currently as a faculty member for DNB Surgical Oncology.

Since 1992, he has mentored and trained several surgical oncologists across India. He has regularly participated as a faculty member in national oncology conferences.

Dr Mistry has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, authored chapters in medical textbooks, and reviewed scientific articles for leading oncology journals.

His academic contributions include over 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals. His notable papers are:

• Is routine preoperative mediastinoscopy indicated in clinical stage I non–small-cell lung cancer?
• Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy in resectable oesophageal cancer
• Intraoperative Pleural Lavage Cytology Should Not Influence Decision for Radical Surgery in Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer
• Coronary artery tourniquet and shunting: acute effects and wall damage 
• Do we need a size-based subclassification for lung cancers larger than 3cm?
  

He is an active member of:-

• International Society for Disease of Esophagus (ISDE)
• International Society for Lung Cancer (ISLC)
• Association of Surgeons of India (ASI)
• Indian Society of Surgical Oncologist (IASO)
• Indian Society of OncologyIndian Association of Bronchology (IAB)

His command of English, Hindi, and Marathi reassures patients, making them comfortable enough to express their concerns freely.

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