OUR STORY

Welcome to Dr Shinde Cancer Clinic

Ayurveda is an ancient way of treatment evolved thousands of years back in India. It uses natural and herbal medicines in various forms — extracts, powders, ointments and more.

In the year 1986, Akhilesh Shinde developed his own way of treatment under the mentorship of his divine guru (Jivan Baba), discovering Ayurveda's core value for cancer healing.

Over three decades, Akhilesh has treated hundreds of last-stage cancer patients successfully — they are now living healthy, happy lives. His son Dr. Mayank Shinde (B.A.M.S.) continues this legacy, treating cancer patients successfully worldwide.

40+ years of specialized Ayurvedic cancer expertise
Research-based herbal formulations collected from forests
Free consultancy — first visit is always free
Treating patients from India, USA, UK, Canada, Australia & beyond

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40+Years of
Healing

Dr Shinde Cancer Clinic — Our Founding Story

In 1986, Akhilesh Shinde began developing a distinctive approach to Ayurvedic cancer support under the mentorship of his guru, Jivan Baba, personally collecting medicinal herbs from forests across India and processing them into formulations designed to support patients through the demands of cancer treatment. What began as a single practitioner's clinic in Indore has grown, over nearly four decades, into a three-generation family practice that has supported thousands of patients across India and internationally.

How Our Practice Has Evolved

While our founding principles remain unchanged — honest positioning of Ayurvedic care as supportive rather than curative, herbs personally sourced and processed under our own quality control, and consultations that have never carried a fee since day one — our practice has evolved considerably. We now serve patients across every Indian state and several countries internationally through teleconsultation, our clinical team has expanded to include formally trained B.A.M.S. physicians working alongside founder Akhilesh Shinde's decades of practical experience, and our understanding of how to coordinate safely and transparently with conventional oncology has deepened considerably over the decades.

Our Clinical Team Today

Three generations now practise together: Akhilesh Shinde, founder, bringing 40+ years of practical clinical experience and his distinctive forest-herb formulation approach; Dr. Amrita Shinde (B.A.M.S.), with particular focus on women's cancers; and Dr. Mayank Shinde (B.A.M.S.), with particular focus on blood and brain cancers and leading much of our online consultation coordination. Each brings distinct strengths to patient care, and most patients benefit from the combined perspective of our full clinical team rather than working with any single practitioner in isolation.

Our Treatment Philosophy

One principle has governed our practice since 1986 and continues to govern it today: hospital oncology and Ayurvedic medicine are partners with different jobs. Surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy and targeted therapy attack the disease using proven, evidence-based methods — this is the proper job of your oncology team, and we never suggest otherwise. Our medicine supports the whole person undergoing that treatment — digestion, immunity, sleep, energy, emotional resilience — addressing the dimensions of cancer care that conventional treatment alone sometimes cannot fully reach. We measure our success not in claims of cure, but in completed treatment cycles, maintained body weight, restful nights, and patients who feel genuinely cared for throughout an extraordinarily difficult chapter of their lives.

Our Commitment to Transparency

We are unusually direct, by industry standards, about the limitations of what we offer. We will tell any prospective patient honestly if we believe Ayurvedic supportive care isn't likely to add meaningful value to their specific situation. We disclose our formulations to treating oncologists on request, without hesitation. And we maintain, across every page of this website and every patient conversation, the same consistent message: complementary, not alternative; supportive, not curative; coordinated, never secretive.

Looking Ahead

As we look to the next chapter of our clinic's history, we remain committed to the same founding values while continuing to deepen our engagement with emerging research on integrative oncology, expand our reach to patients who might benefit from coordinated supportive care, and train the next generation of our family's clinical practice in both classical Ayurvedic principles and rigorous, honest, evidence-informed practice.

Connect With Us

Whether you're a newly diagnosed patient trying to understand your options, a long-term survivor seeking ongoing wellness support, or simply curious about what integrative Ayurvedic cancer care genuinely involves, we welcome a conversation. Call or WhatsApp +91-8889188821, or visit our clinic in Indore — your first consultation is, as it has always been since 1986, completely free.

Dr Shinde Cancer Clinic — Our Indore Location

Our Indore clinic at 69, Koyala Bakhal, Behind Gurudwara, Yashwant Road, has served as the physical home of our practice for decades, a space that has witnessed thousands of patient consultations across nearly four decades of operation. While our reach has expanded enormously through teleconsultation, this physical space remains meaningful — both as the place where our founder Akhilesh Shinde began this work in 1986, and as a continuing point of connection for local and visiting patients who value in-person consultation.

Our Relationship With the Local Medical Community

Over decades of practice in Indore, our clinic has developed working relationships with local oncologists, hospitals and medical professionals, built on consistent transparency about our integrative — not alternative — positioning. These relationships allow for smoother coordination when our patients are simultaneously receiving active oncology treatment from Indore-based medical teams, reflecting our genuine commitment to being a constructive part of the broader local cancer care ecosystem rather than operating in isolation or opposition to conventional medicine.

Family Values That Shape Our Practice

As a three-generation family clinic, certain values have been consistently transmitted across generations: an insistence on personal involvement in herb sourcing and quality control rather than outsourcing to commercial suppliers, a refusal to charge consultation fees regardless of commercial pressure to do so, and an unwavering commitment to honest communication with patients about what our care can and cannot offer. These aren't merely stated values but practices actively maintained and modelled by each generation to the next.

Our Broader Vision for Integrative Cancer Care in India

Beyond our individual clinic's work, we hold a broader vision for how integrative Ayurvedic supportive care could ideally function within India's healthcare landscape — genuinely coordinated with conventional oncology rather than operating as a separate, sometimes competing system; held to honest evidence standards rather than overstated efficacy claims; and accessible to patients regardless of their financial circumstances, reflected in our consistent free-consultation practice since 1986. We see our clinic's work as a small but consistent contribution toward this broader vision.

How Patients Find Us

Over nearly four decades, patients have found their way to our clinic through various paths — word-of-mouth referrals from previous patients and their families remain our most common source of new patients, a pattern that reflects the trust-based, relationship-driven nature of our practice. Increasingly, patients also discover us through online search, particularly those researching integrative options for a recent cancer diagnosis, or through referrals from oncologists and other medical professionals familiar with our consistent, transparent approach to integrative care within the Indore medical community.

Our Clinic's Physical and Operational Growth

While our core clinical philosophy has remained remarkably consistent since 1986, the practical infrastructure supporting our work has evolved considerably — from a single practitioner managing all aspects of patient care personally, to today's structured team with formally credentialed physicians, organised patient record-keeping, established courier and shipping logistics for medicine delivery across India and internationally, and a comprehensive web presence helping patients understand our approach before their first consultation.

What Hasn't Changed Since 1986

Despite this operational evolution, certain elements remain deliberately unchanged: every formulation continues to be prepared in-house under direct clinical oversight rather than outsourced to commercial manufacturers; consultations remain free of charge, reflecting our founding commitment to accessibility; and our core positioning — Ayurvedic care as integrative support alongside, never instead of, conventional oncology treatment — has never wavered, even as the broader complementary medicine industry has sometimes drifted toward more commercially-driven, less rigorously honest positioning.

Our Relationship With Patients Beyond Active Treatment

Many of our patient relationships extend well beyond active cancer treatment itself. We maintain connections with survivors during long-term wellness phases, and we've had the privilege of supporting some families across multiple generations and multiple cancer diagnoses over our decades of practice. This sustained relationship model, rather than a purely transactional treatment-episode approach, reflects our broader view of healthcare as fundamentally relational, particularly for a condition as life-altering as cancer.

A Final Word From Our Clinic

If you've read this far, we hope you've gained genuine insight into who we are and how we practice — not through marketing language, but through honest description of our history, our principles, and our ongoing commitment to patients navigating one of life's most challenging experiences. We would be honoured to discuss your specific situation, with no obligation and no pressure, whenever you're ready to reach out.

Frequently Overlooked Questions Patients Ask Us

Beyond the most common questions, patients occasionally raise more nuanced concerns that deserve equally thoughtful answers. Some wonder whether their specific genetic or family cancer history should influence their integrative care approach — and while we're not genetic counsellors, we do consider relevant family history context during consultation, particularly for cancers with known hereditary patterns like certain breast and ovarian cancers. Others ask whether their specific dietary background or cultural food practices need adjustment — we work within each patient's existing food culture rather than imposing unfamiliar dietary frameworks, finding ways to apply Ayurvedic nutritional principles using familiar regional ingredients and cooking methods.

How We Approach Uncertainty and Difficult Questions

Cancer treatment inevitably involves uncertainty — about prognosis, about how a patient will respond to specific treatments, about what the future holds. We don't pretend to have answers we don't have, and we're comfortable acknowledging uncertainty honestly with patients rather than offering false confidence to ease difficult conversations. We've found that patients generally appreciate this honesty more than they would appreciate comforting but ultimately hollow reassurance that doesn't reflect genuine medical uncertainty.

Our Broader Commitment to our Clinic and Team

Our Clinic and Team represents just one dimension of the comprehensive, integrative supportive care our clinic provides. We encourage you to explore other relevant pages on our website, or simply reach out directly with any questions specific to your situation that this page hasn't fully addressed. Our team remains available via WhatsApp at +91-8889188821 for any follow-up questions, with no obligation beyond an honest, informative conversation about how we might be able to support your specific cancer care journey.

Why We Take the Time to Explain Things Thoroughly

We recognise this page contains more detailed information than many websites provide on similar topics. This is deliberate. A cancer diagnosis brings an overwhelming volume of new information, decisions and uncertainty into a patient's life, and we believe thorough, honest, accessible explanation — rather than brief, superficial content — genuinely serves patients trying to make informed decisions during an exceptionally difficult time. We would rather a patient spend extra minutes reading comprehensive, useful information than leave our website with unanswered questions or an incomplete understanding of what we offer and how we approach cancer care.

Connecting What You've Read to Your Own Situation

Every cancer journey is different, and while this page provides general information relevant to many patients, your specific situation — your cancer type, stage, treatment plan, overall health, and personal circumstances — deserves individualised attention that no website page, however thorough, can fully replace. We encourage you to use this content as a foundation for understanding, then bring your specific questions and circumstances to a free consultation where we can address your situation directly and personally.

Take the Next Step

Whether you're ready to book a consultation today or simply want to keep this information for future reference as you consider your options, we're here whenever you're ready. Call or WhatsApp +91-8889188821, available Monday through Saturday, 11AM to 6PM IST, with online consultation options available for patients unable to visit our Indore clinic in person. As always, your first consultation comes at no cost — a practice we've maintained since 1986 and will continue maintaining as a core commitment to accessible, honest cancer care support.

A Closing Thought on Trust in Cancer Care

Trust between a patient and any healthcare provider — conventional or complementary — forms the foundation of effective care, perhaps nowhere more so than in the emotionally charged context of a cancer diagnosis. We've worked to earn that trust over nearly four decades through consistent actions rather than words alone: transparent communication about what we can and cannot offer, genuine coordination with conventional oncology rather than competing claims, accessible consultation regardless of a patient's financial circumstances, and honest acknowledgment of evidence limitations rather than overstated promises. We hope this consistent approach, reflected throughout this website, gives you confidence in considering whether our integrative supportive care might have a place in your own cancer care journey, or that of someone you love.

We're glad you took the time to read through this page in full, and we hope it has given you a clearer, more complete picture of how we approach this aspect of integrative cancer care at our clinic.