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Dr. Mayur Ghoghari
Dr. Mayur Ghoghari, MD (Palliative Medicine), completed his postgraduate training from the Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute (GCRI), Ahmedabad, in 2022. He has received specialized experience in Pediatric Palliative Care at Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai.
Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Palliative Medicine at Rohilkhand Cancer Institute, Bareilly.
Experience
Pediatric & Palliative Care
Special Interest
Symptom & End-of-Life Care
Member
Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC)
Department of Palliative Medicine
The Department of Palliative Medicine at Rohilkhand Cancer Institute is a dedicated full-time specialty service established on 1st November 2025 with the vision of providing holistic, evidence-based, compassionate care that addresses the physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of patients and their families throughout the course of serious illnesses.
We offer specialized palliative care for cancer and non-cancer patients, including adults and children, focusing on relief from pain, symptom management, psychosocial support, and improvement of quality of life.
Who Can Benefit?
Cancer Patients
- Advanced and metastatic cancers
- Symptom burden during cancer treatment
- Survivorship support
- End-of-life care
Non-Cancer Patients
- Chronic heart failure
- Chronic respiratory diseases
- Neurological disorders
- Chronic kidney disease
- Liver disease
- Dementia and other life-limiting illnesses
Pediatric Palliative Care
Specialized care and support for children with serious and life-limiting conditions, along with counseling and guidance for their families.
Clinical Services Available
Multidisciplinary Approach
Our team works closely with oncologists, surgeons, radiation oncologists, physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, rehabilitation specialists, and other healthcare professionals to ensure coordinated and comprehensive patient care.
Education and Academic Development
The Department is committed to advancing palliative medicine through education, training, and research.
Upcoming Academic Initiative
We are actively planning to start the MD Palliative Medicine postgraduate training program, aiming to develop future specialists and strengthen palliative care services in the region.
DEPARTMENT OF PAIN & PALLIATIVE ONCOLOGY
Rohilkhand Cancer Institute is one of the premier centres of Pain & Palliative Oncology established in the city of Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India. The institute was started with the intention of providing patients with State-of-the-art Pain and palliative Oncology facilities of international standards with comprehensive cancer care at affordable, nominal charges. Pain and palliative care services are designed to focus on the active total care of the person suffering from both cancerous & non-cancerous advanced diseases. prevent and relieve the patient from both physical pain and psychological problems through early identification and assessment. It is not just pain that results in agony for the patients and their caregivers. Very often, there are associated symptoms such as extreme weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea & vomiting, constipation and insomnia. In addition, they have psychological symptoms like anxiety, depression, fear of suffering, irritability and even anger.
What is palliative care?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines palliative care as, ‘an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing a life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial and spiritual.’
Many are under the assumption that having cancer means one has to suffer pain as well. This is not true. According to international human rights law, relief of pain is a human right and every person should have access to pain relief.
Cancer Pain & Palliative Care
Pain is the most feared complication of cancer. Nearly 30-50% of patients with cancer suffer from pain. But what is really disturbing is that, in patients with terminal or advanced cancer, nearly 75 to 90% suffer from, sometimes unbearable pain. It has been estimated that approximately 80% of patients are diagnosed in the advanced stages of cancer and as many as 10 lakh patients require pain management.
Thus, suffering in patients with cancer is not entirely due to physical pain. Psychological, social and even spiritual issues can also contribute to the suffering of patients with cancer. In fact, physical pain & discomfort are only the tip of the iceberg and only one of the many facets of their suffering. Dame Cicely Saunders, who was the founder of palliative care in the 1960s, first elucidated the concept of ‘total pain’ in patients with cancer. She vividly described the inseparability of physical pain from mental suffering in these patients.