Publications by authors named "Helen C Reena"

Advanced gall bladder cancer generally has a poor prognosis and also shows decreased response to conventional therapies like chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Though surgical resection is the most common approach followed, the 1-year survival rate is only 10%. Herein, we report the outcome of administration of autologous natural killer cell and activated T lymphocyte-based autologous immune enhancement therapy (AIET) in a case of gall bladder cancer stage IV which was progressing in spite of surgical resection and several sittings of chemotherapy.

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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared eradication of the dreadful disease "smallpox" in 1980. Though the disease has died down, the causative virus "variola" has not, as it has been well preserved in two high security laboratories-one in USA and another in Russia. The debate on whether the remaining stocks of the smallpox virus should be destroyed or not is ongoing, and the World Health Assembly (WHA) in 2011 has decided to postpone the review on this debate to the 67th WHA in 2014.

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Radiotherapy is the primary form of treatment in patients with locally advanced cervical carcinoma. However for residual disease in the form of the persistent lymph nodes, surgery or chemotherapy is recommended. As surgery is not acceptable by every patient and chemotherapy has associated side effects, we hereby report the positive outcome of in vitro expanded natural killer cell and activated T lymphocyte based autologous immune enhancement therapy (AIET) for the residual lymphadenopathy in a patient with locally advanced cervical cancer after radiation.

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