Tata Memorial Centre
India's largest cancer centre, a leader in low-cost, high-impact trials such as low-dose immunotherapy and oral metronomic chemotherapy.
70,000 new patients a year; landmark trials on low-dose nivolumab in head and neck cancer, cervical screening (VIA), and affordable radiotherapy.
- Low-cost immunotherapy trials
- Cervical screening
- Head and neck cancer
Leads medical oncology at Tata Memorial and its programme of pragmatic trials that make treatments affordable.
A surgeon and public-health campaigner whose work links oral cancer to tobacco and drives prevention policy in India.
A surgeon-scientist whose low-cost randomised trials, from peritumoral lidocaine to timing of surgery, challenged assumptions in breast cancer.
Sudeep Gupta leads India's largest cancer centre and its programme of pragmatic, affordable trials.
Led the Mumbai trial showing that visual inspection with acetic acid by health workers cuts cervical cancer deaths.
A medical oncologist who co-leads Tata Memorial's lung cancer trials and built India's geriatric oncology programme.
Showed that very low-dose nivolumab added to cheap chemotherapy improves survival in head and neck cancer, a landmark for affordable immunotherapy.
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not linked directly; found by shared links- BottleneckNo incentive to repurpose cheap drugs
Shares Validate low-cost metronomic oral regimens in phase 3 and carry them into guidelines, Confirm low-dose olanzapine for appetite and weight in advanced cancer worldwide, A platform trial of very-low-cost metronomic chemotherapy in LMIC common cancers, Add-Aspirin.
- InstitutionInternational Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)
Shares Pivotal trials include sites in Africa, South Asia and Latin America, sponsor-funded, A Global Fund for cancer care in low- and middle-income countries, Blended finance and a low-cost linac to close the global radiotherapy gap, Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries.
- BottleneckCachexia, toxicity and the limits of the patient
Shares Confirm low-dose olanzapine for appetite and weight in advanced cancer worldwide, A cheap old tablet to restore appetite, Low-dose olanzapine for cancer anorexia (Tata Memorial), Cachexia pharmacotherapy: GDF-15 blockade, anamorelin, olanzapine.
- IdeaRadiotherapy for everyone who needs it by 2040
Shares Not enough oncologists, nurses, pathologists, physicists, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.
- PersonCarlos Barrios
Shares Pivotal trials include sites in Africa, South Asia and Latin America, sponsor-funded, Burden-matched funding for trials led in low- and middle-income countries.
- TechnologyColposcopy and excisional treatment (LEEP/LLETZ, cone)
Shares Surendra Shastri, Cervical cancer.
- TechnologyHPV DNA testing and self-sampling
Shares Surendra Shastri, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Cervical cancer.
- InstitutionSun Yat-sen University Cancer Center
Shares Burden-matched funding for trials led in low- and middle-income countries, Trials do not represent the people who get cancer, Most of the world has almost no cancer care, Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.