Tapan K. Saikia

TL;DR: It is suggested that the addition of consolidation radiation helps improve the EFS and OS in patients achieving a complete remission after six cycles of ABVD chemotherapy, particularly in the younger age group and in patients with B symptoms and bulky and advanced disease.

TL;DR: This study suggests that EBV is likely to confer a higher PCNA expression and also contribute towards maintaining the RS cells of cHD in cell cycle, which would make RS cells in EBV associated cHD would be more responsive to chemotherapy and radiotherapy associated DNA damage.

TL;DR: ABVD is associated with relatively better preservation of gonadal function and three patients treated with ABVD fathered children post-therapy.

TL;DR: A case of microsporidial infection in a female patient with chronic myeloid leukemia undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation is reported, suggesting that transplant patients are another group of patients who are susceptible to this group of opportunistic pathogens.

TL;DR: Reduced-intensity conditioning that harnesses the potential of a graft-versus-tumor (GVT) effect has been proposed as an alternative to conventional myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation and this can be achieved with minimal immunosuppression in 17 patients who received human leukocyte antigen-matched sibling allografts.