MS Vidyasagar's research while affiliated with Manipal Academy of Higher Education and other places

Publications (9)

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Background: Despite the advances in breast cancer treatment, it has a higher rate of mortality. The response of treatment varies significantly; this could be due to the various subtypes that determine the course of the disease. In this study, we evaluated patients who were treated definitively and had developed organ-specific metastasis and local r...
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Purpose: Carcinoma cervix forms a major burden among malignancies in women in India. Anemia is very common among Indian women and a high proportion of carcinoma cervix patients present with anemia. Previous studies show that hemoglobin level may be considered as a prognostic factor in carcinoma cervix. It has been observed that anemia is associated...
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Background: In locally advanced head-and-neck cancers (HNCs), definitive chemoradiation therapy has emerged as the treatment of choice due to the benefit of organ preservation. Radiation therapy is known to cause significant acute and late toxicities when it is used at radical doses. Studies have shown that more severe toxicities such as mucositis...
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Background: The incidental radiation exposure to hippocampus during radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal cancers may contribute to short-term toxicity like disequilibrium and lack of inhibition and also to long-term memory loss. Objective: To diametrically evaluate the dose received by hippocampus in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer undergoing i...
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We report a case of a patient in his early 30s’ who presented with an ulcero-proliferative growth over the left buccal mucosa , he was also on treatment for CML in blast crisis on Hydroxyurea and a known case of Ichthyosis Follicularis, Alopecia, and Photophobia (IFAP) syndrome. Though a working diagnosis of chloroma / Hydroxyurea induced erosive L...
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Adjuvant treatment options for Stage I seminoma include active surveillance, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. Active surveillance may not be ideal for the average Indian patient. Of the two accepted adjuvant therapy options, namely single-dose carboplatin chemotherapy and radiotherapy to the retroperitoneal nodes, though it intuitively appears more...
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Background: Nephrotoxic Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a common condition associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. Acute exposure to potentially nephrotoxic drugs requires early appraisal of the extent of renal injury to determine the need for specific interventions. Hence this study was designed to evaluate two urinary biomarkers for th...

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... The incidence is 3.79 cases/100 000 men in Australia and 0.7% in India. (1) Peak age of Incidence is 15-35 years. (2, 3) In our case the patient was 47 years and did not have distant metastatic diseases. ...
... All patients were treated with IMRT techniques. The mean Dmax of the plexus doses ranged from 60.3 to 72.3 Gy [16,18,38,40]. The brachial plexus tolerance has been thought to be greater in patients receiving head and neck radiotherapy. ...