{"entity":{"id":"saroj-gupta-cancer-centre","kind":"institution","name":"Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre & Research Institute","aka":["SGCC&RI","Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre & Research Institute, Kolkata","Thakurpukur Cancer Hospital"],"tldr":"A philanthropic 311-bed cancer hospital at Thakurpukur, Kolkata, founded by radiotherapist Saroj Gupta in 1973 to care for poorer patients from rural Bengal.","summary":"In early 1973 Dr Saroj Gupta, then a young radiotherapist, formed a society with doctors, social workers and philanthropists to build a cancer centre for patients who could not get a hospital bed, with special emphasis on the underprivileged. It began on marshy land at Thakurpukur donated by the family of Chintaharan Das.\n\nThe institute describes itself as a philanthropic organisation giving cancer care at affordable cost and carrying out cancer research. It is now a 311-bed dedicated cancer hospital on a 16-acre campus, with diagnostic, radiotherapy, surgical and paediatric cancer services, and it offers a medical visa appointment form for patients from Bangladesh.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"SGCC&RI: history","url":"https://sgccri.org/about-us/"},{"label":"National Cancer Grid: member list","url":"https://www.ncgindia.org/hospitals-and-institutions/members"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":["radiation","surgery"],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["national-cancer-grid"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Kolkata","country":"IN","lat":22.47,"lng":88.3,"institutionType":"cancer-center","website":"https://sgccri.org","programs":["Radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy","Paediatric oncology","Cancer research","Care for patients from Bangladesh"]},"route":"/institutions/saroj-gupta-cancer-centre/","neighbours":{"section":[{"id":"radiation","kind":"section","name":"Radiation Therapy","route":"/fronts/radiation/"},{"id":"surgery","kind":"section","name":"Surgery & Interventional","route":"/fronts/surgery/"}],"institution":[{"id":"national-cancer-grid","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Grid of India","route":"/institutions/national-cancer-grid/"}]}}