Dr. Sumanth Kumar Mallupattu — Senior Consultant in Hyderabad

Dr. Sumanth Kumar Mallupattu is a Senior Consultant at Yashoda Hospitals in Secunderabad, Hyderabad, with more than 14 years of experience. He is listed in both medical oncology and hematology, and his qualifications are MBBS, MD and DM.

His procedures are the four main classes of systemic treatment: chemotherapy for cancer, cancer immunotherapy, targeted therapy for cancer and hormone therapy for breast cancer. Taken together, they let one clinician carry a breast cancer patient through a hormonal course and a patient with a different tumour through an immunotherapy course without a handover.

His training crossed two disciplines before it settled. He read MBBS at Kurnool Medical College in Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh in 2005, then took MD in radiation oncology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh in 2012, and finally DM in medical oncology at Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad in 2019. A medical oncologist who first qualified in radiation oncology knows from the inside how the two arms of cancer treatment are sequenced.

His affiliations run through the public and the private cancer network of Hyderabad and beyond: Yashoda Hospital in Secunderabad, CARE Hospitals, Nizam's Institute of Medical Sciences, the Indian Red Cross Society Cancer Hospital, MNJ Cancer Hospital at Osmania Medical College, and the Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research in Puducherry.

He is a member of ASCO, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, of ESMO, the European Society for Medical Oncology, of ESTRO, the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology, and of IAPC, the Indian Association of Palliative Care. The last two match the radiation and supportive-care sides of his own training.