Oral glutamine: Is there a role in the amelioration of radiation-induced mucositis? A prospective case-control study at a tertiary care centre in North India.

Background: The most frequently occurring painful and dose-limiting side effect of radiation therapy (RT) to the head and neck region is oral mucositis (OM). Several studies demonstrated that glutamine may reduce the severity and the duration of OM significantly during RT and chemo-radiotherapy in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC).

Materials And Methods: Between January 2021 and August 2022, a prospective single institutional case-control study compared the efficacy and safety of oral glutamine on radiation-induced mucositis in patients with HNC.

Carcinoma cervix: A single institute experience from Kashmir, Northern India.

Background: Carcinoma cervix is the fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide, with an estimated 604,000 new cases and 342,000 deaths worldwide in 2020. Carcinoma cervix is an uncommon malignancy in Kashmir. In this retrospective study, we have tried to find clinicopathological characteristics of carcinoma cervix along with the survival rates at our tertiary care hospital.

Bleeding Control in Advanced Gastric Cancer; Role of Radiotherapy.

Objectives: The aim of our study is to see the efficacy of palliative radiotherapy (RT) for bleeding control in patients with advanced gastric cancer (AGC).

Materials And Methods: It is a retrospective review based on observations of 74 AGC patients with a median age of 60 years (range 50-82 years) who had active tumour bleeding and were treated with palliative RT. Treatment response was assessed by both subjective symptom relief and objective change in parameters.

Clinical outcome of intensity-modulated radiotherapy versus two-dimensional conventional radiotherapy in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Comparative study at SKIMS Tertiary Care Institute.

Background: The management of nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) at present is based primarily on radiotherapy, but the technique by which radiation therapy is delivered is different such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and two-dimensional conventional radiotherapy (2D-CRT).

Materials And Methods: In our study, IMRT and 2D-CRT were compared for their treatment outcome in locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients. Patients with Stage II to IVA nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) as per the American Joint Committee on Cancer 7 and 8 edition 2017 treated with IMRT (n = 30) and 2D-CRT (n = 30) between October 2016 and October 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.