EP-1323: Clinical audit of cervical cancer records from Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, South India

Immunological Subtypes of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia- Beyond Morphology: Experience from Kidwai State Cancer Institute, Bengaluru, India.

INTRODUCTION Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is disease of lymphoid precursors and is the most common cancer. Diagnosis of ALL is made by evaluating morphology and flowcytometric Immunophenotyping (FCI)and is an important adjunct in diagnosis and determining treatment in ALL, with availability of extensive monoclonal antibodies in the recent years there is tremendous progress in the field of...

Unilateral isolated choroidal metastasis secondary to squamous cell carcinoma of uterine cervix

Introduction: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer of women worldwide. It spreads either by local invasion or by hematogenous spread. Metastases to the eye, intraocular metastasis have been reported but they are uncommonly seen. Choroidal secondaries are the most common intraocular malignancies in adults, metastasis to the choroid from utero-cervical carcinoma are an exceedingly rar...

Clinical audit in radiation oncology: results from one academic centre in Delhi, India.

The objective was to analyze the radiotherapy (RT) practice at the cancer centre of a tertiary academic medical institution in Delhi. This audit from an Indian public institution covered patient care processes related to cancer diagnosis, integration of RT with other anti-cancer modalities, waiting time, overall treatment time, and compliance with RT. Over a period of one year, all consecutivel...

Virulence in isoniazid-resistant clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from south India

Isoniazid, is the only antituberculous drug for which the relation between lack of virulence and acquisition of resistance was associated. INH-resistant mutants were shown to contain defective katG gene. Classical studies showed that INH-resistant south Indian isolates have lower virulence in guinea pigs and higher susceptibility to H2O2. It is of interest to assess the virulence in south India...

Clinical profile and predictors of Severe Dengue disease : A study from South India