The current role of adjuvant radiotherapy in management of medullary thyroid carcinoma: A single institute analysis.

Objectives: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) accounts for only about 5% of total thyroid cancers. It usually presents as an advanced disease carrying a poor prognosis than well-differentiated thyroid cancers. While the treatment of choice is surgery, the role of adjuvant radiotherapy is still unclear.

Survival outcomes and failure patterns for oropharyngeal cancers treated with simultaneous integrated boost in intensity modulated radiotherapy (SIB-IMRT) and concurrent chemotherapy.

Background: Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) has become a standard radiotherapy treatment delivery option owing to the advantages it offers in terms of target coverage and organ sparing. Furthermore, the ability to introduce different fractionation for different targets lets us deliver higher doses to the high-risk areas and lower doses to the elective volumes at the same sitting, referred to as simultaneous integrated boost (SIB). In the current study, we intended to retrospectively analyze the clinical outcomes and patterns of the failure of oropharyngeal cancers treated with SIB-IMRT and concurrent chemotherapy at our centre and analyze the factors contributing to poorer outcomes.

Chondroid syringoma of an upper eyelid tumor: Unusual case report.

We present the case report of a 58-year-old man with recurrent chondroid syringoma, which was histopathologically confirmed, who underwent exenteration surgery of the right eye. Furthermore, the patient was receiving postoperative radiation therapy, and presently there is no local and/or distant evidence of disease in the patient.

Combined external beam radiotherapy and vaginal brachytherapy versus vaginal brachytherapy in stage I, intermediate- and high-risk cases of endometrium carcinoma.

Purpose: Randomized trials on the effect of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with or without vaginal brachytherapy (VBT) for endometrial carcinoma are very few. In view of this, the current study was conducted with the hypothesizes: whether the escalated dose of 26 Gy (VBT alone) in comparison with various major international trials (PORTEC-2) has any difference in rates of disease-free and overall survival with fewer adverse effects in low resource setting like India.

Material And Methods: An open-labeled, non-inferiority, randomized control trial was undertaken at a regional cancer center among patients with stage IA or IB high-intermediate risk endometrial carcinoma.

Stress as a Cause of Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis and Its Correlation with Salivary Stress Markers.

Stress causes an increase in cortisol and amylase. Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) results due to a multitude of causes, amongst which stress is one of the most important. Aim of the study was to estimate the level of stress, serum cortisol, salivary cortisol, amylase and electrolytes in subjects with RAS.

Glycosylated Haemoglobin (HbA1c) - A Marker of Circulating Lipids in Type 2 Diabetic Patients.

Background: Diabetic patients with concomitant dyslipidemia are often soft targets for cardiovascular disease and deaths. An early intervention to normalize circulating lipids has been shown to reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is routinely used as a marker to indicate long-term glycemic control.