The motto of the department is 'Quality assured radiation therapy' . The department is well equipped in terms of equipment and trained manpower. It has a highly dedicated and motivated team to achieve this goal. It is equipped with facilities of a dual energy linear accelerator, high dose rate brachytherapy systems, telecobalt unit, simulators, computerized 3-D radiation therapy planning systems, and mould room facilities for fabrication of blocks, compensators and other devices. Apart from these there is a very well equipped medical physics laboratory to provide the backup support to deliver and monitor quality radiation therapy in cancer patients.
Research also constitutes an important activity of the department.
The department has started interstitial high dose rate brachytherapy with the installation of HDR-Microselectron on August 1997. A tumour biology laboratory has been established within the department with the aim of carrying out basic research in the areas of p53, apoptosis, tumour cytogenetics and other tumour predictive assays. This would computerise radiotherapy records, provide on-line communication between various sections of the department with regard to patient procedures, computerise billing, generate treatment summaries and reports and allow for statistical analysis of data in any radiotherapy department in India.