V. P. Gangadharan

Dr. V. P. Gangadharan (born in 1954) is an Indian oncologist, known for his support to poor and needy cancer patients by providing them with subsidised medicines and free counselling through Cochin Cancer Society.

[1] He was the former Head of the Department at Regional Cancer Centre, Thiruvananthapuram.

He has undergone training at The Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, London and George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.[2] He was massively involved in the formation of Cochin Cancer Society in 2004, by coordinating people having experienced the ordeal of either having a cancer patient in their family or being a survivor of the disease.

[4] Gangadharan was born to a textile engineer M. N. Padmanabhan Nair and Saraswathi Amma in Coimbatore as the youngest of the four siblings.

After education from the Christ College, Irinjalakuda,[5] and Maharaja's College, Ernakulam,[6] he went to Coimbatore to join his father’s flourishing textile business and his lack of business acumen led him to abandon the business.