Hospitality and tourism industry amid COVID-19 pandemic: Perspectives on challenges and learnings from India.

COVID-19 outbreak has presented unprecedented circumstances before the fragile tourism and hospitality industry. The highly infectious novel coronavirus continues to thwart the sector and raises serious questions about the present and future survival of the sector. The research addresses two important concerns, first, pertains to the major challenges that hospitality and tourism industry faces amid current conditions; and second relates to the vital learnings for the industry.

Effect of Supportive Psychotherapy on Mental Health Status and Quality of Life of Female Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy for Recurrent Disease.

Context: Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy for their recurrent disease often report the presence of anxiety and depression.

Aims: In the study, we intended to find out the mental health status and overall quality of life (QOL) of such patients and to identify the effect of supportive psychotherapy.

Subjects And Methods: Forty cancer patients undergoing second or subsequent line chemotherapy(CCT) were selected for psychotherapy session.

The chemotherapy response score is a useful histological predictor of prognosis in high-grade serous carcinoma.

Aims: High-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC) is the most common tubal/ovarian malignant tumour, and usually presents at an advanced stage. Interval debulking surgery (IDS) after neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) is being increasingly used for the management of these patients. The chemotherapy response score (CRS) has been proposed for grading the response of tubo-ovarian HGSC to NACT on the basis of examination of IDS specimens.

Prospective randomized trial to compare accelerated (six fractions a week) radiotherapy against concurrent chemoradiotherapy (using conventional fractionation) in locally advanced head and neck cancers.

Background: Concurrent chemoradiation (CCRT) is currently considered to be the standard of care in locally advanced head and neck cancer. The optimum radiotherapy schedule for best local control and acceptable toxicity is not yet clear. We aimed at shortening of treatment time by using accelerated radiation, thereby comparing the disease response, loco-regional tumor control and tolerability of accelerated radiation (six fractions per week) against CCRT in locally advanced head and neck cancer.