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RESEARCH

Several research projects are being carried out in the department. Majority of these are investigator initiated and some of them are multicentric.

PROJECTS

 
Title of Project
and investigators
Date of Starting
Funding body
        Ongoing Projects
1
Concomitant chemoradiotherapy versus accelerated radiotherapy versus conventional radiotherapy in the management of advanced carcinoma of the head and neck. S. (Ghosh) Laskar, JP Agarwal, TK Saikia, KA Dinshaw
2000
TMH/ CSIR
2
Randomized multicentric study of 5 v/s 6 weekly fractions of radiotherapy in the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of head & neck. JP Agarwal, SK Shrivastava, S (Ghosh) Laskar, KA Dinshaw
2000
IAEA/TMH
3
Intraoperative Iridium - 192 tumor bed implant alone in early breast cancer. Sarin R, Jalali R, Budrukkar AN, Badwe R, Parmar V, Nadkarni M, Chinoy R, Shet T, Shrivastava SK, Deshpande DD, Dinshaw KA
2001
Nil
4
HDR Brachytherapy Of Internal Mammary Nodal Chain In Breast Cancer With Intra-Operative Catheter Placement In The Internal Mammary Vessels. Sarin R, Badwe R, Jalali R, Mahantshetty U, Budrukkar A, Parmar V, Nadkarni M, Deshpande DD
2001
Nil
5
Feasibility study to evaluate and correlate between clinical & sonographic responses in cervical node metastases in head & neck carcinoma following radical radiotherapy. S (Ghosh) Laskar, JP Agarwal, S Arya, T Pandey, P Corea
2002
TMH
6
Concomitant chemoradiation in advance stage carcinoma cervix- A phase III Randomised trial. SK Shrivastava, HB Tongaonkar, S Gupta, R Kerkar, A Maheshwari, S (Ghosh) Laskar, KA Dinshaw
2003
TMH/ ICMR
7
Concomitant chemoradiation versus neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and surgery in the management stage II carcinoma cervix- A phase III Randomised trial, S Gupta, HB Tongaonkar,SK Shrivastava, eshwari, S (Ghosh) Laskar, KA Dinshaw
2003
TMH/ ICMR
8
Intraluminal HDR brachytherapy alone versus Intraluminal HDR brachytherapy and External Beam Radiotherapy in the Palliation of Advanced Oesophageal Carcinoma. KA Dinshaw, S Ghosh Laskar, SK Shrivastava, DD Deshpande, RA Kinnhikar
2003
IAEA/TMH
9
Two vs four cycles of abvd chemotherapy and low dose radiation therapy in early stage favourable prognosis hodgkin's disease: a randomised clinical trial. M.A.Muckaden, .S. Laskar, T.K.Saikia, S.K.Pai, K.Naresh, S.Gupta
2003
TMH
10
Hereditary Cancer Consortium. R Sarin, SS Agarwal, KA Dinshaw K Mohandas, P Kurkure, R Badwe, H Tangaoankar, A Puri, R Chinoy, R Mulherkar, P Kadam
2002
TMH
11
Accelerated Tumor Bed Irradiation in Early breast cancer with IMRT: A Feasibility and dosimetric study. R Sarin S Chopra, D Kumar, SS Narayanan, R Kamble, R Jalali, SK Shrivastava, DD Deshpande, K A Dinshaw
2003
TMH
12
Efficacy of stereotactic conformal radiotherapy (SCRT) compared to conventional radiotherapy in minimising late sequelae in children and young adults with brain tumours: a randomised clinical trial (SCRT trial). R Sarin, R Jalali, N Merchant, S Goswami, N Shah, KA Dinshaw, et al
2001
Terry Fox Foundation
13
To prospectively compare tumour control, late sequalae and quality of life in patients with non-functioning pituitary adenomas treated with surgery alone versus surgery followed by radiotherapy: a randomised trial (pituitary trial). R Jalali, A Goel, R Sarin, et al
2002
TMH
14
Radioprotective effect of ocimum sanctum (Tulsi) in patients undergoing hemibody irradiation: A double blind randomised trial R Sarin, R Jalali, SK Shrivastava, MA Muckaden, M Ghatge, AS Raste, KA Dinshaw
2002
ICMR grant
15
Prevalence and spectrum of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations in familial breast ovarian cancers. R Sarin, SS Agarwal, R A Badwe, HB Tangaoankar, K.A Dinshaw
2004
TMH
16
Prospective neurological function, quality of life and Barthel's assessment in adult patients with primary brain tumours. R Jalali, A Bud, R Sar, R Kamble, S Parab, R Hawaldar
2004
TMH
17
Feasibility of concomitant electron boost (on Saturdays) in patients with locally advanced breast cancer treated with radiotherapy R Jalali, R Malde, A Budrukkar, R Sarin
2004
TMH
18
Para-aortic Lymph Node Staging and Evaluation of Treatment Outcome by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) in Advanced Cancer Cervix. KA Dinshaw, SK Shrivastava, A Samuel, HB Tongaonkar, R Kerkar, A Maheshwari, S (Ghosh) Laskar.
2004
TMH
19
Elective versus Therapeutic Neck Dissection in the Treatment of Early Node Negative Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Oral Cavity, AK D'cruz, D Chaukar, KA Pathak, M Deshpande, P Chaturvedi, P Pai, RL Bhalawat, S. (Ghosh) Laskar, JP Agarwal, KA Dinshaw
2004
TMH
20
Randomized Clinical trial to compare results of Concurrent chemo-radiation with surgery and post-operative radiotherapy. KA Pathak, M Deshpande, AK D'cruz, D Chaukar, P Chaturvedi, P Pai, RL Bhalawat, S. (Ghosh) Laskar, JP Agarwal, PM Parikh, VR Pai, KA Dinshaw
2004
TMH
21
A phase II trial of IRESSA in advanced Head & Neck cancers. D'cruz, D Chaukar, S. (Ghosh) Laskar, JP Agarwal, KA Dinshaw
2004
Multicentric: ASTRA-ZENECA
22
Radiotherapy Dose Escalation for Inoperable Ewing's Sarcoma/ PNET (EFT 2001 RT). S.Laskar, C.N.Nair, M.A.Muckaden, A.Puri, M.G.Agarwal, S.Gujral, S.Gupta, S.Banavali,P.Kurkure, S.K.Pai, S.Juvekar, N.Nair,D.D.Deshpande, S.K.Shrivastava, S.Basu.
2004
DAE/ CTC
23
Intensified Vincristine, Ifosfamide, Etoposide with Adriamycin, Cyclophosphamide, and Actinomycin D in the Treatment of Non-Metastatic Ewing's Family of Tumors. C.N.Nair, M.A.Muckaden, S.Gupta, S.Banavali, S.K.Pai, P.A.Kurkure, S.Laskar, A.Puri, M.G.Agarwal, S.Juvekar, T.Shet, M.Ramadwar, S.Desai, S.Agarwal, N.Nair, R.Havaldar.
2004
TMH
24
Intensive versus Routine follow-up for Soft Tissue Sarcomas. A.Puri, M.G.Agarwal, R.Badwe, R.Hawaldar, R.Mistry, C.S.Pramesh, S.Laskar, S.Gupta, N.Jambhekar, M.A.Muckaden, S.Juvekar.
2004
TMH
25
The Treatment and Characterization of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia in Children, Adolescents and Young Adults (INCTR 02-04). S.Banavali, P.Kurkure, C.N.Nair, P.M.Parikh,S.K.Pai, S.Gujral, M.A.Muckaden, S.Laskar, N.Merchant, S.Goswami, P.Amre, A.Paes, B.Kolhatkar, R.Hawaldar, N.Thomas.
2004
TMH/ INCTR
26
Concomitant and adjuvant Temozolomide with radical radiotherapy in children with brain stem glioma (brain stem glioma study). R.Jalali, P.Kurkure, R.Sarin, N.Merchant, T.Gupta
2004
Hospital Intramural grant
27
IMRT for Craniospinal irradiation (CSI) - will have preclinical component of dosimetric/modelling work followed by implementation and feasibility in 5 patients (IMRT-CSI study). R.Jalali, D.Sharma, R.Sarin, T.Gupta, Reena.P, S.K.Shrivastava, K.A.Dinshaw
2004
DAE/CTC
28
A phase II randomized trial Comparing IMRT with conventional radiation therapy in Stage IIB Carcinoma Cervix.SK Shrivastava, U Mahantshetty, DD Deshpande, S (Ghosh) Laskar, KA Dinshaw, RA Kinhikar, Sherly Saju, SV Jemima, HB Tongaonkar, S Gupta.
2004
Varian Medical Systems LTD.USA
29
Phase II study of 3-Dimentional Conformal Radiotherapy (3D-CRT) versus Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head & Neck (HNSCC).SG Laskar, T Gupta, JP Agarwal, SK Shrivastava, KA Dinshaw, PM Parikh, VR Pai, Reena Devi, S Deshpande, DD Deshpande.
2005
Varian Ltd, USA
30
Phase II study of 3-Dimentional Conformal Radiotherapy (3D-CRT) versus Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head & Neck (HNSCC).Gupta T, Laskar SG, Agarwal JP, Shrivastava SK, Dinshaw KA, Parikh PM, Pai VR, Reena Devi, Deshpande S, Deshpande DD.
2005
Siemens Ltd., USA
31
Para-aortic Lymph Node Staging and Evaluation of Treatment Outcome by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) in Advanced Cancer Cervix. Dinshaw KA, Shrivastava SK, Samual A, Mahantshetty U, Laskar SG, Merchant NH, Gupta S, Tongaonkar HB, Rangrajan V, Purandare N.
2005
DAE/CTC
32
Comparative evaluation of different detectors for IMRT dosimetry. Deshpande DD, Kinhikar RA, Saju Sherley, Narayana SS, Sharma D, Shrivastava SK, Dinshaw KA.
2005
Intramural / ACTREC
33
Phase III Trial of Surgery followed by conventional radiotherapy (5#/Wk) versus concurrent chemoradiotherapy versus Accelerated radiotherapy (6#/Wk) in high risk, locally advanced, stage III & IVa, resectable, squamous cell carcinoma of oral cavity. Deshpande Mandar, D'Cruz AK, Pathak KA, Chaukar DA, Chaturvedi P, Pai P, Dinshaw KA, Bhalavat RL, Agarwal JP, Ghosh S, Pai VR, Mohandas K, Kane SV
2005
DAE-CTC
34
Temozolomide versus PCV in recurrent high grade gliomas (BR 12 Trial). A MRC conducted multicenter randomised trial - R Jalali (Collaborator from TMH).
2005
MRC/ TMH
35
Timing of systemic chemotherapy in patients with isolated locoregional recurrence of breast cancer. Nair R, Gupta S, Badwe R, Parmar V, Nadkarni M, Sarin R, Jalali R, Budrukkar AN, Hawaldar R
2005
36
A phase III trial evaluating the role of chemotherapy as an adjuvant therapy for premenopausal women with endocrine responsive breast cancer who receive endocrine therapy (PERCHE trial). Parmar V, Badwe R, Nadkarni M, Nair R, Gupta S, Sarin R, Jalali R, Budrukkar AN, Hawaldar R
2005
IBCSG
37
A phase III trial evaluating the role of exemestrane plus GnRH analogue as an adjuvant therapy for premneopusal women with endocrine responsive breast cancer (TEXT trial) Parmar V, Badwe R, Nadkarni M, Nair R, Gupta S, Sarin R, Jalali R, Budrukkar AN, Hawaldar R
2005
IBCSG

 

   Department Members
1. Dr. S. K. Shrivastava,
Head, Department of Radiation Oncology
2. Dr. R. Sarin
Director, ACTREC
3. Dr. (Mrs.) M. A. Muckaden
4. Dr. J. P. Agarwal
5. Dr. R. Jalali
6. Dr. S. Laskar
7. Dr. (Mrs.)Laskar
8. Dr. T. Gupta
9. Dr. U. M. Mahantshetty
10. Dr. (Ms.) A. N. Budrukkar
11 Dr. (Mrs.) R Engineer
12. Dr. A. Munshi
13. Dr. V. Murthy
   Medical Social Worker
1. Mr. S. A. Deshmukh
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