Objectives To explore the relative effectiveness of topical or oral metronidazole used for
malodour in necrotic cancers and to propose a protocol for metronidazole usage in …

Background Patients with cancer need adequate information about diagnosis, treatment
options, and possible outcomes and prognosis to make therapeutic decisions. In cultures …

PURPOSE Anaerobic necrosis in cervical cancer can lead to malodor, fistulae, and
treatment abandonment. In this retrospective cohort study, we examined the association …

Objectives: The pandemic and the lockdown has challenged palliative care patients
especially those on palliative oncological treatments. This study aims to understand the …

Aim: A demographic study was conducted to understand the social status of the urban and
rural patients attending a palliative care unit in South India. Methods: Fifty rural and 50 urban …

Objectives: Serial pain scores are used to guide pain management but there can be
variability in what constitutes 'adequate'pain relief for an individual patient. We aimed to …

They came to us from the slums of India's metropolis and its rural hinterland—poverty-
stricken women with cervical cancer. Their names would be put on the 4-month-long waiting …

We pass them every day on our way to the hospital, the street dwellers of our town in India.
Their home consists of a plastic sheet suspended between four poles on the pavement. One …