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Science Sparks @ ACTREC
Date Image 9 March 2026 Vol. No. 15 ; Issue No.725
Publications

1. Anand A, Dilip TR, Bhandare M, Chopde A, Patil S, Shrikhande SV (2026). Financial toxicity among gastric and pancreatic cancer Survivors in India and its impact on quality of life. Journal of Cancer Policy.

2. Bhatt A, Sharma V, Kazi M, Pawar A, Kusamura S, Glehen O (2026). ASO Author Reflections: The Surgical Peritoneal Cancer Index: an Objective Score that Is Estimated Subjectively. Annals of Surgical Oncology.

3. Gupta T, Dasgupta A, Chatterjee A. Craniospinal irradiation plus tumor-bed boost with standard adjuvant chemotherapy OR high-dose chemotherapy plus autologous stem cell transplant as a radiation-sparing approach in WNT medulloblastoma of early childhood: Fire OR Ice? Journal of Neuro-oncology. 177(1): 33.

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BindingDB is a knowledgebase that accelerates biomedical research and innovation by extracting, accumulating, organizing, and annotating protein-ligand interaction datasets.

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Interesting Reads

Anderko RR, Bowman AE, Murthy P, Murthy P, Chopra A, Tirukkovalur NV, Ceuppens S, Paniccia A, Lee KK, Mailliard RB, Lotze MT, Singhi AD, Zureikat AH (2026). Pancreatic Cancer Organoids Recapitulate Chemotherapy Response and Identify a Potent Cytotoxic T-Cell Population. Clinical Cancer Research. 32(3):596-610.

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Upcoming Events
Workshop on “Principles and Practice of Cancer Control Prevention, Screening and Early Detection

March 10-11, 2026

At Prof RD Choksi Auditorium, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai

OTCAN REHAB 2026: 1st International Breast Cancer Rehabilitation Summit

March 28, 2026

At ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai

Masterclass of Pancreatic Surgery

April 11, 2026

At ACTREC, Tata Memorial Centre, Kharghar, Navi Mumbai

Do You Know?

In 1977, Memorial Sloan Kettering became the world’s first cancer center to establish a full-time psychiatry service devoted solely to treating psychiaric and psychological problems unique to cancer patients.

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Cancer News
Distinct spatial tumor–immune ecosystems predict lung cancer treatment response

News-Medical, 05/03/2026

Researchers have identified distinct spatial tumor–immune ecosystems that predict whether patients with advanced non–small cell lung cancer will benefit from immunotherapy...

ACTREC rolls out next-gen spectral CT to sharpen early cancer detection

IndiaMed Today, 04/03/2026

Clinicians at ACTREC will now be able to obtain detailed spectral information as part of routine CT scans, enabling deeper disease characterisation from a single exam without increasing radiation dose. The platform supports comprehensive full-body scans in roughly two seconds and is designed to cut down...

Tata Memorial Centre and ACTREC study reveals high cost of modern cancer drugs unaffordable for most in India and globally for treatment of Head and Neck cancer

Press Informaiton Bureau, 02/03/2026

The study titled “Disparity in the Markers of Affordability Across Targeted- and Immune-Therapy Drugs Used in Head and Neck Cancers,” compared prices of modern cancer drugs across seven countries, including India, the US, and the UK...

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