Aim: The aim of the study was to examine tumor control and clinical outcomes of extended field irradiation and compare it with those treated with conventional field in same disease profile and also to determine toxicities associated with radiation treatment.
Methods: This study included 50 biopsy-proven and registered International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics Stage III cases of carcinoma cervix treated with concurrent computed tomography (injection cisplatin 40 mg/m weekly) + external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) upto 50 Gy + high-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) (22.5 Gy).
Background: Head-and-neck cancer is the most common cancer in developing countries of Southeast Asia. Most of the patients present to the hospital in advanced stage and have a poor prognosis. This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and toxicity profile of oral metronomic chemotherapy (MCT) in the form of methotrexate and celecoxib in locally advanced, recurrent and metastatic head-and-neck cancers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The benefit of definitive chemoradiotherapy (CRT) in elderly patients with locally advanced esophageal cancer is not well established. We perform a single institutional retrospective study of CRT in terms of toxicity in elderly patients (age more than 60 years) as compared with young cohort (age <60 years) in locally advanced nonmetastatic esophageal cancer.
Patients And Methods: A total 145 of patients, 79 in young age (Group A) and 66 patients of elder age (Group B) with Stage II and III squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus with ECOG PS of 0-1, who had undergone definitive CRT at our institute from January 2015 to November 2018 were selected for this analysis.
Aim: The data of survival for Indian cervical cancer patients treated by indigenous modifications of the protocol are scarce. The objective of this retrospective study was to analyze the efficacy and tolerability in patients of cervical carcinoma treated by neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by concurrent chemoradiation.
Materials And Methods: Three hundred and thirty two cases of squamous cell carcinoma of cervix who received 3 cycles of neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed concurrent chemoradiation were retrospectively analyzed for overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), and local pelvic control rate.
Malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) is the most common form of soft tissue sarcoma during middle and late adulthood in the deep connective tissue of the extremities, abdominal cavity, and retroperitoneum. However, primary breast sarcoma is a rare disease entity, comprising less than 1% of all breast malignancies. MFH of the male breast is very rare.
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