HOC Vedanta Launches 5th Community Cancer Centre in Bopal, Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad, July 18, 2025 — In a significant step towards easing access to cancer treatment for patients across Ahmedabad, HOC Vedanta, a renowned and long-established chain of community cancer centres, today inaugurated its 5th Community Cancer Centre in Bopal. The new centre reflects the organisation’s commitment to making evidence-based, affordable, and compassionate cancer care available in every corner of the city.

The inauguration ceremony was led by the founding directors of HOC Vedanta Dr. Shailesh Talati, Dr. Bhavin Shah, Dr. Chirag Desai, and Dr. Sandip Shah along with their full team of oncologists and care providers.

With existing centres in Navrangpura, Maninagar, Rajpath, and Nikol, the launch of the Bopal facility marks another milestone in the organisation’s vision of bringing cancer care closer to patients’ homes, especially in a city like Ahmedabad, where the incidence of cancer is steadily rising. According to recent estimates, Gujarat has witnessed an alarming increase in cases of breast, head & neck, lung, and gastrointestinal cancers with Ahmedabad among the top districts reporting higher prevalence.

“Cancer treatment is not a one-day event it’s a journey that requires repeated visits, emotional resilience, and financial planning. For patients living in the city’s outskirts or beyond, traveling long distances several times a week can be overwhelming,” said Dr. Rahul Jaiswal, cancer physician at the newly launched Bopal centre. “Our goal with this centre is to ensure that patients don’t have to suffer logistically while already going through physical and emotional stress.”

The Bopal centre, like all HOC Vedanta centres, will offer state-of-the-art facilities for daycare chemotherapy, immunotherapy, hormonal and targeted therapy, as well as expert consultation from specialised oncologists — all in a non-hospital, neighbourhood-based setting.

Dr. Sanket Shah, hemato-oncologist and bone marrow transplant specialist, and Dr. Deepa Trivedi, paediatric oncologist, added that community cancer centres offer a cost advantage over traditional hospital-based treatment. “Not only is care more personalised in these settings, but the reduced infrastructure and overhead costs also allow us to pass on the savings to the patient. It’s about reducing both the financial and emotional cost of cancer.”

In 2024, HOC Vedanta entered into a strategic collaboration with M|O|C Cancer Care and Research Centre, a Mumbai-based chain of community cancer centres. Both institutions share a common minimum program: to decentralise cancer care, improve treatment adherence, and eliminate the geographical and economic barriers that often delay timely treatment.

Together, they now represent one of India’s largest networks of community cancer centres, collectively delivering over 85,000 chemotherapies annually and having treated more than 4.5 lakh cancer patients till date.

“Our honest intent is simple  to set up as many community-based centres as needed to ensure no patient in Gujarat suffers due to inaccessibility or affordability,” the team emphasized.

With this latest launch in Bopal, HOC Vedanta reaffirms its belief that exemplary cancer care shouldn’t just be available it should be accessible, affordable, and local.