# Indian Institute of Head & Neck Oncology

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## TL;DR

A charitable head and neck cancer institute in Indore run by the Indore Cancer Foundation, designated a MASCC Centre of Excellence in Supportive Care.

## Summary

The Indore Cancer Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organisation registered under the Madhya Pradesh Public Trust Act, 1951. It was launched on 27 December 1988 as the idea of Dr Digpal Dharkar, in the presence of Dr Jatin P. Shah, then chief of head and neck service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, among others. The foundation runs the Indian Institute of Head & Neck Oncology near the Indian Institute of Management at Rau, Indore.

The institute states that the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) has designated it a Centre of Excellence in Supportive Care, the third in India after ACTREC at Tata Memorial Centre and the Manipal Institute of Health Sciences.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: Indore Cancer Foundation; IIHNO
- City: Indore, IN
- Type: cancer-center
- Website: https://indorecancerfoundation.org

## Sources

- Indore Cancer Foundation: https://indorecancerfoundation.org/
- National Cancer Grid: member list: https://www.ncgindia.org/hospitals-and-institutions/members

## Connected records

- cancers: [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/)
- fronts: [Supportive Care & Survivorship](https://onco.cc/fronts/supportive-care/)
- institutions: [Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer](https://onco.cc/institutions/actrec/), [National Cancer Grid of India](https://onco.cc/institutions/national-cancer-grid/)

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