The Division of Oncology was created in the Department of Surgery, CSMMU, Lucknow in 1979 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh. Prof. NC Misra headed this unit for the next 17 years and under his leadership the Oncology Division established itself as a centre for excellence in academics, research, training and clinical service. It has over the years shouldered the major responsibility of providing tertiary care for cancer patients from Uttar Pradesh, the neighbouring states of India and Nepal. Prof. NC Misra was joined by Dr. Arun Chaturvedi as Lecturer in Oncology in 1989. Subsequent additions to the Oncology Unit took place in 1995 when Dr ID Sharma, with his extensive experience of early detection of breast cancer, joined as Professor and Dr. Sanjeev Misra as Pool Officer.  The Department of Surgical Oncology was created by the Government of Uttar Pradesh on 3rd September 1998 with Prof. ID Sharma  as the Head of Department .

Activities :
1. The Department of Surgical Oncology is recognised by the Medical Council of India for the MCh Surgical Oncology training programme. One seat is available on the basis of All India Entranve Examination. Two MCh Surgical Oncology exams have been conducted by the department in the last 2 years.
2. The department has been recognised as one of the centres amongst 3 in the country for cancer pain and palliative care by WHO and National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA.
3. There are currently 2 funded research projects running.
4. The Surgical Oncology Division  has been actively organising conferences and scientific meetings over the last 20 years of its existence.  In the last 5 years  it has organised 4 such meetings. It organised the National Conference of Indian Association of Surgical Oncology in September 2003.

Facilities :
The Department of Surgical Oncology is presently situated in the newly constructed Surgical Oncology building and New Surgical Block. The new department building has operating room suites, indoor wards, Conference Room, Consultants' Room, administrative offices, private rooms and investigative facilities. The department runs a day care chemotherapy facility on Wednesday and Saturday.

Outpatients' services are offered on:
Prof. A. Chaturvedi : Tuesday
Prof. I.D Sharma : Thursday
Dr. Sanjeev Misra : Saturday

Output:
Bed Strength : 40 beds. 22 new beds to be added in the new building. The average bed occupancy rate is 90-100%. 
Annual OPD attendance: 6731
Annual indoor admissions: 999
Annual Chemotherapies administered: 4594
Annual Major/minor operations: 607