Latest news, media coverage and events from Dr. Shinde's Ayurvedic Cancer Care Clinic, Indore.
Featured in Deccan Chronicle, Hans India and other national publications for pioneering Ayurvedic cancer care.
Dr. Shinde conducted awareness seminars on Ayurvedic approaches to cancer management for patients and caregivers.
Growing number of patients from USA, UK, Canada, Australia choosing Dr. Shinde's holistic Ayurvedic approach.
Dr. Shinde's herbal formulations show significant improvement in cancer patient quality of life and immunity.
This page serves as our clinic's hub for announcements, educational events, and updates relevant to our patient community. We periodically host informational sessions — both in-person at our Indore clinic and via online webinar — covering topics such as nutrition during chemotherapy, understanding integrative oncology, and managing specific treatment side effects. These sessions are open to current patients, prospective patients, and family caregivers seeking to better understand integrative cancer support.
Since our founding in 1986, Dr. Shinde's Ayurvedic Cancer Care Clinic has grown from a single practitioner's practice into a three-generation family clinic supporting thousands of patients across India and internationally. Akhilesh Shinde, our founder, was recognised with the Bhushan Puraskar for his contribution to Ayurvedic cancer care, and our clinic received the MP Leadership Awards 2024 for Best Cancer Care in Central India. These recognitions reflect decades of consistent, patient-centred practice rather than any single achievement, and we remain committed to the same founding principles of honest, transparent, evidence-informed integrative care.
Beyond clinic announcements, we maintain an active blog covering topics relevant to cancer patients and their families — from specific herb evidence reviews to practical guidance on managing treatment side effects. We encourage patients to explore our blog section for in-depth articles on topics relevant to their specific situation, all reviewed by our qualified Ayurvedic medical team before publication.
The most reliable way to stay informed about clinic updates, new educational content, or upcoming sessions is to maintain an active consultation relationship with our team — patients receive relevant updates during their regular follow-up consultations. For specific questions about upcoming events or sessions, WhatsApp our team directly at +91-8889188821, and we'll share current information about any scheduled sessions relevant to your situation.
Journalists, researchers and media professionals seeking information about our clinic's history, treatment philosophy, or patient outcomes are welcome to contact us directly through our contact page. We have been featured in regional health media over the years and are happy to discuss our integrative approach to cancer care, always within the bounds of patient confidentiality and our commitment to honest, non-sensationalised communication about what Ayurvedic supportive care can and cannot offer.
We believe an informed patient is better equipped to navigate cancer treatment, which is why education forms a core part of our clinic's mission alongside direct patient care. Whether through periodic informational sessions, our blog content, or simply the time we take during consultations to explain medical and Ayurvedic concepts in accessible language, we prioritise genuine patient understanding over rushed, jargon-heavy interactions.
Over the decades, our clinic has periodically participated in cancer awareness initiatives within the Indore community, recognising that early detection and timely treatment-seeking remain among the most powerful tools for improving cancer outcomes in India. Awareness around specific risk factors — tobacco and areca nut use, HPV vaccination for cervical cancer prevention, recognising early warning signs — represents prevention work that matters as much as treatment support itself.
We maintain professional relationships with oncologists and hospital networks across Indore and beyond, built on the consistent transparency and coordination our clinic has practised since 1986. These relationships allow for smoother patient coordination when our patients are simultaneously under active oncology care, and reflect our genuine commitment to integrative — rather than competing — practice within the broader cancer care ecosystem.
As our clinic continues into its fifth decade of practice, we remain committed to expanding access to coordinated integrative supportive care, deepening our engagement with emerging research, and training the next generation of practitioners in both classical Ayurvedic principles and the rigorous, transparent practice standards that genuine integrative oncology demands.
India's cancer care infrastructure has evolved substantially over the decades our clinic has been operating. The National Cancer Control Programme, expanded AIIMS network with dedicated oncology departments, and growing private oncology sector have together improved access to conventional treatment across much of the country, even as significant rural-urban disparities persist. Understanding this broader landscape helps contextualise where integrative supportive care like ours fits — not as a replacement for this growing infrastructure, but as a complement available alongside it, regardless of which specific hospital or oncology team a patient is working with.
Several trends in the broader integrative oncology field interest our clinical team: growing academic research interest in quality-of-life outcomes for cancer patients (a historically under-studied area compared to survival statistics alone), increasing institutional recognition of integrative oncology departments at major cancer centres globally, and a gradual shift in patient expectations toward wanting their emotional and quality-of-life needs addressed alongside purely disease-focused treatment. We see our clinic's work as part of this broader, positive shift toward more holistic cancer care models.
As medical knowledge and integrative oncology research continues evolving, our clinical team maintains ongoing engagement with new research and refines our practice accordingly. This includes staying current with published research on specific herbs and formulations, understanding evolving conventional oncology treatment protocols that affect how we coordinate supportive care, and continuously refining our own clinical observations across the patient population we serve.
We periodically seek informal feedback from long-term patients about their experience with our clinic — what worked well, what could improve, and what additional support might benefit future patients. This ongoing dialogue with our patient community, rather than treating clinical practice as fixed and unchanging, has shaped many refinements to our consultation process and formulation approach over the decades.
For the most current information about any upcoming educational sessions, webinars, or clinic announcements, the most reliable approach is direct contact through +91-8889188821, as our team can share real-time information about scheduled activities relevant to your specific interests or situation.
India occupies a unique position globally in the integrative medicine conversation — the only major country where a continuous, multi-thousand-year-old traditional medical system (Ayurveda) coexists alongside a substantial modern biomedical healthcare infrastructure, both formally recognised by government health policy. The Ministry of AYUSH (Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Homeopathy) provides formal regulatory oversight for traditional medicine practice, while the broader healthcare system continues expanding conventional oncology access. This dual-system reality shapes how Indian patients and practitioners think about integrative care differently than in countries where traditional medicine exists as a smaller, less institutionally established alternative.
While classical Ayurvedic texts predate modern understanding of cancer biology by millennia, conditions resembling what we now call cancer were documented and discussed under frameworks like Arbuda and Granthi, with described treatment approaches emphasising the same Shodhana (detoxification), Shamana (pacification) and Rasayana (rejuvenation) principles our clinic continues applying today, naturally adapted to work alongside the modern oncology treatments unavailable to classical practitioners. Understanding this historical continuity — while being clear that classical texts could not have anticipated chemotherapy or radiation therapy — provides context for why certain herbal approaches have endured across centuries of clinical observation.
Major international cancer research institutions have increasingly dedicated formal research attention to integrative oncology over the past two decades. The National Cancer Institute in the United States maintains an Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine. The Society for Integrative Oncology publishes regularly updated clinical practice guidelines synthesising emerging evidence. Indian institutions, including several AIIMS centres, have begun more formal integrative oncology research initiatives. This growing academic infrastructure, while still developing relative to conventional oncology's research base, represents meaningful progress toward more rigorously evidence-based integrative practice industry-wide.
Our clinical team periodically engages with professional development opportunities relevant to integrative oncology — whether through reviewing newly published research, participating in relevant professional discussions, or simply maintaining active dialogue with the broader Ayurvedic medical community about evolving best practices in cancer supportive care specifically. This ongoing engagement reflects our recognition that medical practice, including ours, should never become static or complacent.
As we reflect on our clinic's journey from a single practitioner's practice in 1986 to today's three-generation team serving patients across India and internationally, certain lessons stand out: the enduring importance of patient trust built through consistent honesty rather than overstated promises, the value of genuine coordination with conventional oncology rather than positioning as a competing system, and the recognition that supporting patients through one of life's most difficult chapters requires far more than herbal formulations alone — it requires sustained, attentive, humane clinical relationship.
As patient information needs have evolved over our decades of practice, we've continuously invested in better ways to communicate with and educate our patient community — from informal in-person discussions in our clinic's early years, to today's comprehensive website content, blog articles, and structured FAQ resources designed to help patients understand integrative cancer care before, during and after their direct consultation relationship with us.
Beyond tracking individual patient experiences, we consider our broader impact in terms of contributing to more informed, honest public understanding of what integrative Ayurvedic cancer care can and cannot offer — pushing back against both overstated "miracle cure" claims that circulate in some corners of the wellness industry, and against dismissive skepticism that fails to recognise the genuine, evidence-supported role complementary approaches can play in supporting quality of life during cancer treatment.
As we look toward our clinic's future, we remain committed to engaging thoughtfully with both the next generation of cancer patients — who increasingly research their options extensively online before seeking consultation — and the next generation of Ayurvedic practitioners, who we hope will inherit not just specific clinical techniques but the underlying commitment to honesty, safety and genuine integrative coordination that has guided our practice since 1986.
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.
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.
Clinic Updates 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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