Dr. Kanwaljit Chahl completed her MBBS from Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute, Chennai in 1995, followed by MS( General Surgery) from Govt Medical College, Patiala in 1999, MRCS Edinburgh in 2005. Dr Chahl has a fellowship in Breast Cancer surgery in Tata Memorial Cancer Hospital in Mumbai.

Dr. Kanwaljit Chahl is a General/Laproscopic Surgeon and Surgical Oncologist at Behgal multispeciality Hospital. Dr. Kanwaljit Chahl is trained in Diagnosis and Surgical treatment of Cancer. She is a specialist in Breast Diseases. She is specialist in Breast Diseases, MS Surgery, MRCS Edinburgh. More than 5000 surgery of Breast Cancer has been performed by Dr. Kanwaljit Chahl in last 30 years. She is former S.R. in CTVS and Cancer surgery (TMH) Mumbai.

Why did you choose cancer surgery as your area of expertise? How has the journey been so far?

Actually when i was doing MBBS in chennai (SRMC) I wanted to be a pediatric cardiac surgeon. but in 1993 when my younger brother was 18 years old he suffered from a type of blood cancer hodgkin's lymphoma. so he underwent treatment surgery, Chemotherapy & Radiotherapy all under one roof at Adyar cancer Institute he got completely cured and since then I wanted to be a cancer surgeon and also part of a hospital which had the entire treatment under one roof. It's been an amazing journey with plenty of ups and downs but now after 20 years in surgical practice i feel i have started floating professionally with a consistent stream of patients coming to you by word of mouth.

What does a typical day in your life look like?

My day starts at 4:45 A.M. I like to do meditation followed by Yoga. Its work from 09:00 to 18:30 & Then back home. Dinner with the family at 20:00 and the day is done.

What do you love about surgery? Is it something you want to do?

Each one of us must do whatever gets us into the flow state its just you and the task at hand is nothing else. So for me this is what surgery does it gets me into the how state always. Yes, It is something I always wanted to do and have worked extremely hard at it for the past 23 years.

What does the future hold for surgery?

Surgery is becoming less and less invasive which is fantastic for the patient as you have only 3-4 small incisions after a laparoscopic surgery. for a surgeon it means a different kind of training surgeon need to learn open and laparoscopic surgery.

What makes Behgal Multispecialty Hospital Mohali, the torch bearer in this area.

This was the first center with all modalities of cancer treatment available under one roof. We have treated about 10,000 cancer patients till date we are now moving into multi specialty.

Vision of Behgal Multispecialty Hospital in the next 5 years.

We will have all specialities in one 200 bedded Hospital. We get a lot of Hospice care patients and we are striving to consistently improve our Hospice care Services. We are coming up with a Nursing college and an assisted living center.