Ethical and moral principles for oncology healthcare workers: A brief report from a Bioethics consortium emphasizing on need for education.

The medical sub-specialty of Oncology presents diverse ethical dilemmas, often challenging cancer healthcare workers with difficult-to-handle clinical scenarios that are tough from a personal and professional perspective. Making decisions on patient care in various circumstances is a defining obligation of an oncologist and those duty-based judgments entail more than just selecting the best treatment or solution. Ethics is an essential and inseparable aspect of clinical medicine and the oncologists as well as the allied health care workers are ethically committed to helping the patient, avoiding or minimizing harm, and respecting the patient's values and choices.

Salivary and Serum Aspartate Aminotransferases and Alanine Aminotransferases in Insulin-Dependent Diabetes Mellitus and Normal Children: A Comparative Study.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the study was to estimate and compare aspartate aminotransferases (AST) and alanine aminotransferases (ALT) levels in saliva and serum of insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) and normal children, and the objective was to evaluate the significance of these enzymes in assessing the salivary gland injury in IDDM children.

Materials And Methods: The study group comprised of thirty children clinically and biochemically diagnosed for IDDM and thirty healthy children of similar age in the control group. Saliva and serum samples were collected and enzyme assay was performed by optimized ultraviolet test method (according to International Federation of Clinical Chemistry).

Fluorescence of in diagnosis of oral candidiasis.

Background: Many pathogenic fungi fluoresce in hematoxylin and eosin stained sections, and Papanicolaou (PAP)-stained smears under ultraviolet illumination. In theory, this phenomenon could aid in the diagnosis of common fungal infections without the delay which is usually associated with special stains.

Objective: To evaluate the role of fluorescence as a rapid screening technique for oral infections caused by Candida organisms in exfoliative smears of oral candidiasis.

Quantitative Analysis of Acute Phase Proteins in Post Chemo-Radiation Mucositis.

Aim: Oral mucositis induced by radiation is an inevitable but transient side-effect of radiotherapy. Acute phase proteins are a class of proteins whose phase concentrations fluctuate in response to inflammation. The best known of the acute phase proteins is C-reactive protein, a protein that rises in the blood with inflammation.