Pardeep Garg. &
A practitioner of radiation oncology — and a quiet advocate for the people radiation rooms are built for.
Eighteen years at the bedside. A career arranged around the unglamorous but essential idea that cancer care, done well, is mostly listening, then deciding, then explaining what was decided. Professor and Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology at GGSMCH Faridkot, with training and standing across the institutions that matter.
Faridkot, Punjab — India
A practice
built on listening.
Cancer care, done well, is not a transaction — it is a conversation that lasts as long as the patient needs it to. Mine begins on the day of diagnosis and rarely ends with the last dose of radiation.
Over the years I've come to think of oncology as a craft of judgement as much as technology. The radiotherapy machine is precise; the patient in front of it is not a fixed quantity. They are a parent, a farmer, a teacher, a brother — a person whose treatment plan must hold together their work, their faith, their family, and their fear.
Health equity is not a slogan. It is what happens when a small-town patient receives the same standard of care as one in any metropolis.
— On the founding principle of the practiceThat is the standard the department aspires to hold: institutional rigour, personal attention, and the discipline to keep both in the same room. Whether the question is curative intent or comfort care, the answer should never feel rushed.
Beyond the clinic I teach postgraduate students, contribute to peer-reviewed research, and run a public-facing channel that addresses cancer myths in plain Punjabi, Hindi and English — because misinformation, in oncology, is itself a form of harm.
Four pillars,
one philosophy.
Advanced
treatment.
Modern external-beam radiotherapy, brachytherapy, IMRT and IGRT — the protocols matched to staging, biology, and the patient's life outside the clinic. Equipment is a means; outcomes are the end.
Tumour board.
Decisions taken in council with surgical, medical and radiation oncology — no single discipline owns the answer.
Community outreach.
HPV awareness, tobacco-cessation drives, screening camps, and a WhatsApp channel that meets patients where they are.
Research.
Clinical trials and peer-reviewed contributions through AROI, ICRO and AJRO.
Teaching.
Postgraduate mentorship — the next generation, taught carefully, not quickly.
Equity.
The same standard of care, whether the patient travelled five kilometres or five hundred.
What we
treat.
Clinical Oncology
Radiation Oncology
Chemotherapy
Palliative Care
Rehabilitation
Psycho-Counselling
How the hours
are spent.
The most advanced linear accelerator in the world is only as good as the conversation that precedes its use.
We commit our hours roughly as follows — to the long, slow business of getting cancer right. Research and innovation keep the protocols current. Patient care is where the rubber meets the road. Education and awareness reach the people the clinic alone cannot.
Patient consultation
Day's review
Behind every case
In the company
of institutions.
Faridkot, Punjab
Healthcare leadership · Alumnus
Clinical training
Clinical training
Office bearer
Editor-in-Chief (former)
Professional societies
Beyond the clinic
Get educated about
HPV vaccination.
Most cervical cancers — and a number of head, neck and anal cancers — are preventable. The HPV vaccine is the single most consequential cancer-prevention intervention available to families today. Get vaccinated. Vaccinate your children. Tell your neighbours.
Follow on WhatsAppIn their
own words.
He treated my father — and through him, the rest of us. The clarity with which he explained each stage made an unbearable year navigable. We are grateful in a way we don't have the language for.
Daughter of patient · Bathinda
A teacher in the truest sense. Rounds with him are masterclasses — equal parts diagnosis, ethics, and the kind of bedside grace they don't put in textbooks.
Postgraduate resident
When the diagnosis came I expected a cold corridor and a quick prescription. Instead, I got an hour of his time, an honest plan, and a phone number that worked when I called it.
Cancer survivor · Faridkot
His outreach work has done more for cancer literacy in rural Punjab than any campaign I've seen. He speaks to villages the way a good doctor speaks to a patient — without hurry, without condescension.
NGO partner · Public health
Get in
touch.
When you
need to be seen.
A first consultation runs forty-five minutes. Bring your reports, your questions, and the family member who'll remember what you forget. We'll do the rest.
Reach the practice
Guru Gobind Singh Medical College Hospital
BFUHS, Faridkot, Punjab
Saturday by appointment