Renowned Mumbai oncopathologist Dr Anita Borges passes away: Tata Memorial Hospital

Renowned Mumbai pathologist Dr Anita Borges has passed away, Tata Memorial Hospital confirmed through a social media post on Friday, September 19. The medical expert was closely associated with the city-based cancer hospital.

The city-based pathologist, who was the daughter of renowned Indian oncologist and cancer surgeon Dr Ernest Borges, was a pioneer of oncopathology and held several prominent positions in the medical field in Mumbai and India.

In a career spanning over four decades, she was the head of Surgical Pathology of Tata Memorial Hospital. While she has been the director of the Centre for Oncopathology at Wadala, she was also a consultant histopathologist and the head of Department of Histopathology at S.L. Raheja Hospital in Mumbai, and the Dean of the Indian College of Pathologists.

The Mumbai health expert has also been the Vice President (Asia) of the International Academy of Pathology.

Among many achievements during her academic and life of research in pathology, she was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Indian Society of Head and Neck Oncologists.

Many from the medical fraternity and Mumbai have reacted mourning the loss of Dr Borges.