Today 4th February is celebrated worldwide as a day to bring awareness regarding cancer. The theme for the years 2016-2018 is " we can i can ". Healthy lifestyle will go long way in preventing cancer. Proper implementation and knowledge sharing regar

Pregnancy and cancer: A challenge for obstetrician and oncologist!As the age of child birth is delayed we may be seeing more cases with cancer in pregnancy.At present estimated incidence of cancer in pregnancy is estimated to be around 1 in 1000

DIET IN PATIENTS ON CHEMOTHERAPY:Patient suffering from cancer suffer from change or loss of taste, decreased appetite. These symptoms are aggravated by presence of vomiting, constipation and diarrhea. The factors leading to these are multifactorial

Few important clinical pearls in Stage III NSCLC!Stage III NSCLC is a heterogeneous disease and carefully selected patients have better survival when surgery is integrated as a part of multimodality treatment approach.MRI brain with contrast shou

Bevacizumab is the first antiangiogenic therapy to be approved in advanced adenocarcinoma lung in combination with chemotherapy. Dose used in different trial was different and varied from 7.5 mg/kg 3 weekly to 15 mg/kg every 3 weeks. Chemotherapy par

Median survival in metastatic carcinoma breast is 2 years.5 year survival is close to 25% (i.e. one out of 4 patients of metastatic breast cancer will be alive at 5 years).New Class of drugs - CDK4 & 6 inhibitor (Palbociclib, Ribociclib) have bee