Ovarian Cancer Treatment in Kolkata
Ovarian cancer often presents with vague, easy-to-miss symptoms and has no routine screening test — which makes evaluation by a specialist who knows what to look for especially important. Dr. Dipanwita Banerjee, Senior Consultant Gynaecological Oncologist at CNCI, manages ovarian cancer from symptom awareness through staging surgery and long-term follow-up.
Whatever stage you are at — a family history you want assessed, persistent symptoms you're not sure about, a confirmed diagnosis, or follow-up after treatment — find your situation below to see how Dr. Banerjee approaches it.
Understanding ovarian cancer
Ovarian cancer develops in the tissue of the ovaries and is one of the five gynaecological cancers Dr. Banerjee treats, alongside cervical, uterine, vulvar and vaginal cancers. Because the ovaries sit deep in the pelvis, tumours can grow for some time before they produce symptoms specific enough to prompt an urgent work-up.
Unlike cervical cancer, there is currently no routine screening test for ovarian cancer. This makes symptom awareness, genetic risk assessment, and timely clinical evaluation the most practical tools available for earlier detection — and Dr. Banerjee's practice covers the complete pathway: risk assessment, diagnostic work-up, staging surgery, and long-term survivorship care.
Ovarian cancer care, stage by stage
Because there is no routine screening test for ovarian cancer, the path from risk to diagnosis looks different for every woman. Dr. Banerjee's approach follows where a woman actually is — from assessing family risk with no symptoms at all, through evaluating persistent symptoms, to staging surgery and life after treatment.
Risk Assessment & Awareness
Because ovarian cancer has no population screening programme, understanding personal and family risk is one of the few tools available for earlier detection.
Family History Review
A family history of ovarian or breast cancer significantly increases risk, and is assessed as part of a woman's overall risk profile.
Genetic Risk Assessment
Guidance through genetic risk assessment and counselling for women with a known or suspected BRCA1/BRCA2 gene mutation.
Symptom Awareness
Because there is no screening test, understanding which symptoms warrant evaluation is one of the most practical protective steps a woman can take.
Evaluating Suspicious Symptoms
Ovarian cancer symptoms are often subtle and easy to mistake for common digestive or menstrual issues. Persistent or worsening symptoms — rather than a single episode — are what warrant evaluation.
Persistent Bloating & Pain
Ongoing abdominal bloating, or pelvic and abdominal pain that persists rather than resolving on its own, are two of the most common warning signs.
Early Satiety & Urinary Changes
Feeling full quickly after eating only a small amount, or new urinary frequency or urgency without a clear cause, are also worth flagging to a specialist.
Diagnostic Work-Up
Clinical evaluation, imaging and relevant blood markers to investigate persistent symptoms and determine whether further staging is needed.
Staging & Surgical Treatment
Ovarian cancer management is built around accurate staging and surgery, most often followed by coordinated oncology care.
Staging & Cytoreductive Surgery
Specific expertise in the staging and cytoreductive surgery used to manage ovarian cancer, including advanced-stage disease.
Robotic & Minimally Invasive Surgery
Fellowship-trained at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Centre, New York, in robotic surgery applied where it is appropriate for lower morbidity and faster recovery.
Multidisciplinary Coordination
As In-charge of the Department of Surgical Oncology (Gynaecology) at CNCI, surgical care is coordinated with chemotherapy and other oncology specialists as each case requires.
Fertility & Life After Treatment
Care does not end at surgery. For younger women, fertility is considered from the point of diagnosis; for everyone, structured follow-up continues well beyond treatment.
Oncofertility Counselling
For women of reproductive age with early-stage disease, sensitive counselling on fertility-sparing surgical options where the disease stage allows it.
Structured Follow-Up
A defined surveillance schedule after treatment to check for recurrence early, when it is most treatable.
Survivorship Support
Ongoing management of treatment side effects and long-term gynaecological health monitoring as part of survivorship care.
Been told you need treatment for ovarian cancer, and want it explained in plain words rather than clinical terms? The Patient Guide covers what to expect before, during and after treatment, and in the years afterward.
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What patients say
Our family will always be grateful to Dr. Dipanwita Banerjee for guiding us through one of the most difficult phases of our lives. My mother was initially scheduled for a hysterectomy, but a D&C performed beforehand revealed malignancy. What we thought was a routine gynecological issue suddenly became a cancer diagnosis, leaving us overwhelmed and searching for the right specialist.
Best Doctor I have ever seen. She is the angel for me… Saved my mother life and my trust… I am thankful to her as well CNCI Hospital where my mother treated very well.
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