Background: Brain metastasis increases morbidity and mortality in cancer patients. This study was undertaken to compare tumor response and treatment-related toxicities in patients treated with orally administered thalidomide concomitantly with whole brain radiotherapy to whole brain radiotherapy alone in brain metastases.
Methods: This randomized control trial was conducted in radiation oncology department, RIMS among 42 patients of brain metastases distributed in two study arms during the period August 2018 to July 2020.
Background: Esophageal cancer (EC) is an extremely aggressive tumor with one of the highest geographic, ethnic, and gender variations. Various factors including tobacco consumption, unhealthy diet, and socioeconomic status have been implicated in the etiology of EC. Despite the advent of modern treatments, the prognosis of EC is dismal.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPig productivity is very low in the Eastern Himalayan hill region due to the poor performance of local pigs. To improve pig productivity, it was decided to develop a crossbred pig of Niang Megha indigenous and Hampshire as an exotic germplasm. The performance of crossbred pigs with different levels of Hampshire and indigenous inheritance-H-50 × NM-50 (HN-50), H-75 × NM-25 (HN-75), and H-87.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To determine the risk factors, clinical symptoms and patterns of spread in laryngeal cancer.
Materials And Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out in the Regional Cancer Centre, Imphal, Manipur, India. One hundred and sixteen patients with laryngeal cancer were retrospectively reviewed for epidemiological data and descriptive statistics were reported for various variables.