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Rajesh Dikshit

Researcher at Homi Bhabha National Institute

Publications -  115
Citations -  30219

Rajesh Dikshit is an academic researcher from Homi Bhabha National Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Cancer. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 91 publications receiving 26879 citations. Previous affiliations of Rajesh Dikshit include Tata Memorial Hospital & International Agency for Research on Cancer.

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Trends in bidi and cigarette smoking in India from 1998 to 2015, by age, gender and education

TL;DR: Cigarettes are displacing bidi smoking, most notably among young adult men and illiterate men, and tobacco control policies need to adapt to these changes, most Notably with higher taxation on tobacco products, so as to raise the currently low levels of adult smoking cessation.
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Revisiting chordoma with brachyury, a "new age" marker: analysis of a validation study on 51 cases.

TL;DR: Exclusive brachyury expression in more than 90% of chordomas indicates its value as a unique, specific marker with other sensitive markers like cytokeratin, epithelial membrane antigen, and/or S100 protein in substantiating a diagnosis of chordoma, including on small biopsies.
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Epidemiological Review of Gastric Cancer in India

TL;DR: More research is required to understand the etiology of gastric cancer, develop suitable screening test, to demarcate high-risk population and to develop and evaluate the effect of primary prevention programs.
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IL17 producing γδT cells induce angiogenesis and are associated with poor survival in gallbladder cancer patients.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that Tγδ17 is a protumorigenic subtype of γδT cells which induces angiogenesis in gallbladder cancer patients and may be considered as a predictive biomarker in GBC thus opening avenues for targeted therapies.
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Trends in breast, ovarian and cervical cancer incidence in Mumbai, India over a 30-year period, 1976-2005: an age-period-cohort analysis

TL;DR: The changing risk profile in successive generations – improved education, higher socioeconomic status, later age at marriage and at first child, and lower parity – may in combination partially explain the diverging generational changes in breast and cervical cancer in Mumbai in the last decades.