Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Search in posts
Search in pages
Filter by Categories
BENCH-PRESS : Original Article
BEYOND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY : Original Article
Brainteaser
BREAST CANCER : Original Article
BREAST CANCERS Original Article
Brief Commentary MEDic LAWgic Section
Brief Report, Public Health
CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY: Original Article
CANCER SURGERY : Original Article
Cardio-Oncology
Case Report
Case Series, Haematological
CLINICAL TRIAL : Original Article
COLORECTAL CANCER : Original Article
COMMENTARY
Consensus
Consensus Recommendations, Head Neck
Controversy
Corrigendum
Diagnostic Dilemma
Drug Review
DRUG REVIEW : Review Article
Editorial
Editorial Commentary
Editorial: Memoir
Erratum
ESOPHAGEAL CANCER : Original Article
FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT TUMORS : Original Article
GCT Review Article
GENITOURINARY : Original Article
GI CANCER Original Article
HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Original Article
HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Review Article
HEAD AND NECK CANCERS : Original Article
HISTOPATHOLOGY IN ONCOLOGY : Original Article
In Response
Letter to Editor
Letter to Editor, Breast
Letter to Editor: Oral Carcinoma
Letter to the Editor
Letters to Editor
Letters to the Editor
LEUKEMIA : Original Article
LEUKEMIAS : Original Article
LUNG CANCER: Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN AML : Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN HEAD AND NECK CANCERS : Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN LUNG CANCER : Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN OVARIAN CANCER : Original Article
Mini Commentary
Mini Symposium - FNAC VERSUS CORE BIOPSY: Editorial
Mini Symposium - FNAC VERSUS CORE BIOPSY: Original Article
Mini Symposium - RT DOSIMETRY AND FRACTIONATION: Editorial
Mini Symposium - RT DOSIMETRY AND FRACTIONATION: Original Article
Mini Symposium on Changing Landscape: Brief Article
Mini Symposium on Changing Landscape: Editorial
Mini Symposium on Changing Landscape: Original Article
Mini Symposium on CML
Mini Symposium on Supportive Care: Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Editorial
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Review Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY: Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY: Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY: Original Article
MISCELLANEOUS : Original Article
MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY : Original Article
MULTIPLE CANCERS Original Article
MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME : Review Article
MYELOID LEUKEMIA : Original Article
NEURO ONCOLOGY : Review Article
NEURO-ONCOLOGY : Original Article
None
Notice of Retraction
OESOPHAGEAL CANCER : Original Article
Oncology Reflections
Original Article
Original Article : Bone & Soft Tissue Tumors
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Breast Cancer
Original Article : Breast Cancers
Original Article : Gastro-intestinal & Hepatobiliary Cancers
Original Article : Genitourinary & Gynecological Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : GI Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : GI Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Gynaecologic Oncology
Original Article : Head and Neck Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Hematolymphoid
Original Article : Leukemia & Lymphoma
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Leukemia and Lymphoma
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Melanoma and Skin Cancer
Original Article : Pediatric and Adolescent Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : SAARC Selection
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Supportive Care and Others
Original Article, Breast
Original Article, Gastrointestinal
Original Article, Gynaecological
Original Article, Head Neck
Original Article, Neurological
Original Article, Public Health
Original Article: Bladder Cancer
Original Article: Bone and Soft Tissue Cancers
Original Article: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors
Original Article: Brain Tumor
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Brain Tumors
Original Article: Cancer Epidemiology and Screening
Original Article: Cancer Epidemiology, Screening and diagnosis
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Diagnostics in Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Epidemiology of Cancer and Cancer Screening
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gastro-intestinal & Hepatobiliary Cancer
Original Article: Gastrointestinal Cancer
Original Article: Genito Urinary Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Genitourinary & Gynaecological Cancer
Original Article: Genitourinary Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Genitourinary Cancers
Original Article: Geriatric Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: GI Cancers
Original Article: GI Cancers and Hepatobilliary Malignancies
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gynaecologic Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gynaecological Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gynaecological Cancers
Original Article: Gynecological Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Head and Neck Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Hematolymphoid Malignancies
Original Article: Hematolymphoid Malignancy
Original Article: Hepatobiliary Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Immuno - Oncology
Original Article: Leukemia -Lymphoma and Myeloma
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Leukemia, Lymphoma & Plasma Cell Disorder
Original Article: Lung Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Lung Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Neuroendocrine Tumors
Original Article: Paediatric Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Palliative Care
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Pediatric Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Sarcomas
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Sarcomas and Skin Cancer
Original Article: Skin Cancer
Original Article: Supportive and Palliative Care
Original Article: Supportive and Palliative Care in Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Supportive Care
Original Research Article
PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY : Original Article
PEDIATRIC SECTION: Editorial
PEDIATRIC SECTION: Original Article
Pictorial CME, Haematological
Poetry in Oncology
Position Paper
QUEST FOR AN ANTIDOTE TO RADIATION TOXICITY : Editorial
QUEST FOR AN ANTIDOTE TO RADIATION TOXICITY : Original Article
RCC Practical Consensus Recommendations
Regional Article
Review Article
Review Article, Breast
Review Article, Haematological
Review Article, International
SARCOMA : Original Article
SARCOMA Review Article
SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA : Original Article
South Asia update
SOUTH ASIAN UPDATE : An update
SOUTH ASIAN UPDATE : Original Article
TABACCO, THE MENACE : Original Article
THE CUTTING EDGE OF RADIOTHERAPEUTICS : Editorial
THE CUTTING EDGE OF RADIOTHERAPEUTICS : Original Article
THE GREAT DEBATE: Against HPV vaccine in cervical cancer
THE GREAT DEBATE: AGAINST IMATINIB AS THE FIRST LINE TKI CHOICE FOR CML
THE GREAT DEBATE: Editorial-HPV vaccine in cervical cancer
THE GREAT DEBATE: For HPV vaccine in cervical cancer
THE GREAT DEBATE: FOR IMATINIB AS THE FIRST LINE TKI CHOICE FOR CML
THE GREY-HAIRED CANCER PATIENT: Editorial
THE GREY-HAIRED CANCER PATIENT: Original Article
THE SKILLFUL SCALPEL: Editorial
THE SKILLFUL SCALPEL: Original Article
THE WAR ON MICROBES: Editorial
THE WAR ON MICROBES: Original Article
THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE : Original Article
THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE: Editorial
TREATMENT TOXICITY : Original Article
TRENDS IN HORMONAL THERAPY IN PROSTATE CANCER: Review Article
URO-ONCOLOGY : Original Article
View Point
Viewpoint
Generic selectors
Exact matches only
Search in title
Search in content
Post Type Selectors
Search in posts
Search in pages
Filter by Categories
BENCH-PRESS : Original Article
BEYOND CLINICAL ONCOLOGY : Original Article
Brainteaser
BREAST CANCER : Original Article
BREAST CANCERS Original Article
Brief Commentary MEDic LAWgic Section
Brief Report, Public Health
CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY: Original Article
CANCER SURGERY : Original Article
Cardio-Oncology
Case Report
Case Series, Haematological
CLINICAL TRIAL : Original Article
COLORECTAL CANCER : Original Article
COMMENTARY
Consensus
Consensus Recommendations, Head Neck
Controversy
Corrigendum
Diagnostic Dilemma
Drug Review
DRUG REVIEW : Review Article
Editorial
Editorial Commentary
Editorial: Memoir
Erratum
ESOPHAGEAL CANCER : Original Article
FEMALE REPRODUCTIVE TRACT TUMORS : Original Article
GCT Review Article
GENITOURINARY : Original Article
GI CANCER Original Article
HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Original Article
HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Review Article
HEAD AND NECK CANCERS : Original Article
HISTOPATHOLOGY IN ONCOLOGY : Original Article
In Response
Letter to Editor
Letter to Editor, Breast
Letter to Editor: Oral Carcinoma
Letter to the Editor
Letters to Editor
Letters to the Editor
LEUKEMIA : Original Article
LEUKEMIAS : Original Article
LUNG CANCER: Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN AML : Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN HEAD AND NECK CANCERS : Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN LUNG CANCER : Original Article
METRONOMIC THERAPY IN OVARIAN CANCER : Original Article
Mini Commentary
Mini Symposium - FNAC VERSUS CORE BIOPSY: Editorial
Mini Symposium - FNAC VERSUS CORE BIOPSY: Original Article
Mini Symposium - RT DOSIMETRY AND FRACTIONATION: Editorial
Mini Symposium - RT DOSIMETRY AND FRACTIONATION: Original Article
Mini Symposium on Changing Landscape: Brief Article
Mini Symposium on Changing Landscape: Editorial
Mini Symposium on Changing Landscape: Original Article
Mini Symposium on CML
Mini Symposium on Supportive Care: Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Editorial
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK CANCER : Review Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: HEAD AND NECK ONCOLOGY: Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY: Original Article
MINI SYMPOSIUM: PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY: Original Article
MISCELLANEOUS : Original Article
MOLECULAR ONCOLOGY : Original Article
MULTIPLE CANCERS Original Article
MYELODYSPLASTIC SYNDROME : Review Article
MYELOID LEUKEMIA : Original Article
NEURO ONCOLOGY : Review Article
NEURO-ONCOLOGY : Original Article
None
Notice of Retraction
OESOPHAGEAL CANCER : Original Article
Oncology Reflections
Original Article
Original Article : Bone & Soft Tissue Tumors
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Breast Cancer
Original Article : Breast Cancers
Original Article : Gastro-intestinal & Hepatobiliary Cancers
Original Article : Genitourinary & Gynecological Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : GI Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : GI Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Gynaecologic Oncology
Original Article : Head and Neck Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Hematolymphoid
Original Article : Leukemia & Lymphoma
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Leukemia and Lymphoma
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Melanoma and Skin Cancer
Original Article : Pediatric and Adolescent Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : SAARC Selection
ORIGINAL ARTICLE : Supportive Care and Others
Original Article, Breast
Original Article, Gastrointestinal
Original Article, Gynaecological
Original Article, Head Neck
Original Article, Neurological
Original Article, Public Health
Original Article: Bladder Cancer
Original Article: Bone and Soft Tissue Cancers
Original Article: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumor
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors
Original Article: Brain Tumor
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Brain Tumors
Original Article: Cancer Epidemiology and Screening
Original Article: Cancer Epidemiology, Screening and diagnosis
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Diagnostics in Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Epidemiology of Cancer and Cancer Screening
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gastro-intestinal & Hepatobiliary Cancer
Original Article: Gastrointestinal Cancer
Original Article: Genito Urinary Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Genitourinary & Gynaecological Cancer
Original Article: Genitourinary Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Genitourinary Cancers
Original Article: Geriatric Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: GI Cancers
Original Article: GI Cancers and Hepatobilliary Malignancies
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gynaecologic Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gynaecological Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Gynaecological Cancers
Original Article: Gynecological Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Head and Neck Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Hematolymphoid Malignancies
Original Article: Hematolymphoid Malignancy
Original Article: Hepatobiliary Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Immuno - Oncology
Original Article: Leukemia -Lymphoma and Myeloma
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Leukemia, Lymphoma & Plasma Cell Disorder
Original Article: Lung Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Lung Cancers
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Neuroendocrine Tumors
Original Article: Paediatric Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Palliative Care
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Pediatric Oncology
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Sarcomas
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Sarcomas and Skin Cancer
Original Article: Skin Cancer
Original Article: Supportive and Palliative Care
Original Article: Supportive and Palliative Care in Cancer
ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Supportive Care
Original Research Article
PEDIATRIC ONCOLOGY : Original Article
PEDIATRIC SECTION: Editorial
PEDIATRIC SECTION: Original Article
Pictorial CME, Haematological
Poetry in Oncology
Position Paper
QUEST FOR AN ANTIDOTE TO RADIATION TOXICITY : Editorial
QUEST FOR AN ANTIDOTE TO RADIATION TOXICITY : Original Article
RCC Practical Consensus Recommendations
Regional Article
Review Article
Review Article, Breast
Review Article, Haematological
Review Article, International
SARCOMA : Original Article
SARCOMA Review Article
SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA : Original Article
South Asia update
SOUTH ASIAN UPDATE : An update
SOUTH ASIAN UPDATE : Original Article
TABACCO, THE MENACE : Original Article
THE CUTTING EDGE OF RADIOTHERAPEUTICS : Editorial
THE CUTTING EDGE OF RADIOTHERAPEUTICS : Original Article
THE GREAT DEBATE: Against HPV vaccine in cervical cancer
THE GREAT DEBATE: AGAINST IMATINIB AS THE FIRST LINE TKI CHOICE FOR CML
THE GREAT DEBATE: Editorial-HPV vaccine in cervical cancer
THE GREAT DEBATE: For HPV vaccine in cervical cancer
THE GREAT DEBATE: FOR IMATINIB AS THE FIRST LINE TKI CHOICE FOR CML
THE GREY-HAIRED CANCER PATIENT: Editorial
THE GREY-HAIRED CANCER PATIENT: Original Article
THE SKILLFUL SCALPEL: Editorial
THE SKILLFUL SCALPEL: Original Article
THE WAR ON MICROBES: Editorial
THE WAR ON MICROBES: Original Article
THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE : Original Article
THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE: Editorial
TREATMENT TOXICITY : Original Article
TRENDS IN HORMONAL THERAPY IN PROSTATE CANCER: Review Article
URO-ONCOLOGY : Original Article
View Point
Viewpoint
View/Download PDF

Translate this page into:

Editorial Commentary
05 (
03
); 125-126
doi:
10.4103/2278-330X.187580

Gastrointestinal cancers in India: Treatment perspective Time is Ripe for Introspection

Department of Medical Oncology, Dr. B. R. A. Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi

*Corresponding author: Dr. Atul Sharma. atul1@hotmail.com

Licence
This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, transform, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Disclaimer:
This article was originally published by Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. and was migrated to Scientific Scholar after the change of Publisher.

References

  1. Available from: http://www.globocan.iarc.fr/Pages/summary_table_pop_sel.aspx. [Last accessed on 2016 Feb 16].
  2. Ghadyalpatil NS, Chopra S, Patil P, et al. Gastrointestinal Cancers in India: Treatment perspective. South Asian J Cancer 2016;5:126-36.
  3. Madhusudhan C, Saluja SS, Pal S, Ahuja V, Saran P, Dash NR, et al. Palliative stenting for relief of dysphagia in patients with inoperable esophageal cancer: Impact on quality of life. Dis Esophagus 2009;22:331-6.
  4. Saluja SS, Gulati M, Garg PK, Pal H, Pal S, Sahni P, et al. Endoscopic or percutaneous biliary drainage for gallbladder cancer: A randomized trial and quality of life assessment. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol 2008;6:944-50.e3.
  5. Pandey M, Shukla VK. Diet and gallbladder cancer: A case-control study. Eur J Cancer Prev 2002;11:365-8.

Fulltext Views
19

PDF downloads
4
View/Download PDF
Download Citations
BibTeX
RIS
Show Sections