Recognition in "World Biomedical Frontiers Magazine"

• Study on “Gefitinib and Methotrexate plus 5-Florouracil in recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma” was invited for featuring on World Biomedical Frontiers Magazine because of its innovation and potential for significant impact, http://biomedfrontiers.org/ ISSN: 2328-0166.

Book/Chapter published:

         “Expression of p53, Cyclin-D1 & EGFR in oral squamous cell carcinoma”- Molecular Marker Expression in Oral Cancer.

          Editors: Seema Gupta, Huma Khan and Vandana Singh Kushwaha

          Typeset and printed by Lambert Academic Publishing, Schaltungsdienst Lange o.H.G., Berlin, First edition,2015. ISBN:978-3-659-67291-0

Miscellaneous:

Presented 15 papers/posters as first author/co-author in National & International conferences

 Organised cancer programme and camps on multiple occasion and part of organising committee in conferences

• Kumar S, Kaundal V, Kushwaha VS, Verma S, Negi M, Gupta N. Challenges in Screening, Diagnosis and Management of Colorectal Cancers in Covid-19 Era. Acta Scientific Medical Sciences .4.11 (2020): 28-33
• Abbas M, Kushwaha VS, Srivastava K, Raza ST, Banerjee M. Impact of GSTM1, GSTT1 and GSTP1 genes polymorphisms on clinical toxicities and response to concomitant chemoradiotherapy in cervical cancer. British Journal of Biomedical Science. 2018 Oct; 75(4):169-174. PMID: 29909733
• Singh SS, Kumar R, Kushwaha VS, Bhatt MLB, Singh A, Mishra A, Ram H, Parmar D, Gupta R. Expression of radioresistant gene PEG10 in OSCC patients and its prognostic significance. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2017 Jul 25;18(6):1513-1518. PMID: 28669160
• Singh SS, Bhatt MLB, Kushwaha VS, Singh A , Kumar R, Gupta R, Parmar D. Role of matrix metalloproteinase 13 gene expression in the evaluation of radiation response in oral squamous cell carcinoma. J Carcinog. 2017 Jun 19;16:2. doi: 10.4103/jcar. PMID: 28694741
• Gupta S, Kushwaha VS, Verma S, Khan H, Bhatt ML, Husain N, Negi MPS, Bhosale VV, Ghatak A.  Understanding molecular markers in recurrent oral squamous cell carcinoma treated with chemoradiation. Heliyon 2 (2016) e00206. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2016.e00206. PMCID: PMC5148783
• Abbas M, Kushwaha VS, Srivastava K, Banerjee M. “Glutathione S-Transferase Gene Polymorphisms and Treatment Outcome in Cervical Cancer Patients under Concomitant Chemoradiation”. PLoS One. 2015 Nov 16;10(11):e0142501. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142501. PMID: 26571237
• Gupta S, Khan H, Kushwaha VS, Husain N, Negi M, Ghatak A, Bhatt ML. “Impact of EGFR and p53 expressions on survival and quality of life in locally advanced oral squamous cell carcinoma patients treated with chemoradiation”. Cancer Biol Ther. 2015 Jul 15. doi:10.1080/15384047.2015.1070985. PMID: 26177827
• Kushwaha VS, Srivastava K, Husain N, Singh S. “Unusual case of Hodgkin lymphoma presenting as soft tissue mass with intracranial metastasis and review of literature”. Clin Cancer Investig J. 2015;4:419-21
• Kushwaha VS , Gupta S, Husain N, Khan H, Negi M, Jamal N, Ghatak A. “Gefitinib, Methotrexate and Methotrexate plus 5-Florouracil as palliative treatment in recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma”. Cancer Biol Ther. 2015 Feb;16(2):346-351. PMID: 25756517
• Gupta S, Husain N, Kumari V, Barik S. (2012) Soft tissue neuroendocrine carcinoma of thigh: A case report with literature review. Case Reports in Clinical Medicine. 1, 9-12.  doi: 10.4236/ crcm.2012.12004

Honours and Awards:

• Invited as Chairperson in Hands-on Workshop on Stereotaxy Masterclass Lung SBRT -How to follow up patients after Lung SBRT by Apex Super Speciality Hospital & PGI, Varanasi on 4^th May 2024
• Discussant in Breakout Session 1 & 2 at AIIMS Oncology Conclave-National Cancer Institute New Delhi on 11th Feb 2024
• Certificate of Appreciation for contribution as Faculty of the short course in Nursing Essentials “Building Clinical Reasoning and Competence” organised by College of Nursing, AIIMS Nagpur under “ Development of Nursing Services” scheme of MoHFW, Government of India 9^th-10^th Dec 2023
• Panelist for Panel Discussion on Management of Early Breast Cancer on “Breast Cancer Update”2023 by Dept of Surgery at AIIMS Nagpur on 19th November 2023
• Chairperson in the Mid-year Conference of Maharashtra Chapter of Indian Association of Pathologists and Microbiologists- ‘’Core issues in Pathology” by VAPM & Patho Dept AIIMS Nagpur, July 2023
• Award of Honor for delivering an Expert talk on ‘’Recent Trends in Radiotherapy for Oral cancer” at CME conducted by AOI Vidarbh branch &ENT Department AIIMS Nagpur on World H & N Cancer Day 2022
• Write-up on National cancer Awareness Day 2021 published in Times of India, Nagpur on 7th November 2021
• Awarded Certificate of Recognition for outstanding clinical work during COVID Pandemic in October 2020 by Vydehi Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (VIMS & RC), Bangalore
• Awarded Certificate of Appreciation for AAROGYAVE AASTHI 2019 “free Multi-specialty Health Camp” by Agastya Charitable Foundation with Canasu Dream foundation at Bangalore in January 2019
• AROI fellowship for age group <35 years for year 2015-2016 in AROICON-2015 and completed the AROI Fellowship at SGPGI, Lucknow from 16th July 2016 to 15th August 2016.
• 2nd prize in Poster presentation in ICMR- CDRI-CSIR Conference, December 2014.
• “Best Performance” in MD, Radiotherapy Examination, 2013.
• ·Honours in Anatomy, Pathology and Microbiology

Skills:

• Proton Beam Therapy
• Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) & Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT)
• Image Guided Radiotherapy (IGRT), Volumetric Arc Radiotherapy (VMAT),Worked on Cyberknife and Tomotherapy
• Brachytherapy including Image based radiotherapy (IGBT) & Interstitial brachytherapy Cervix
• Chemotherapy

Ongoing/Completed Projects

Effectiveness of Classical Ayurvedic treatment (CAT) as add-on to conventional bio-medicine in improving the quality of life (QoL) and recurrence-free-survival in head-neck-cancer (HNC) patients (CATCH Trial) under Integrated Health Research Project (AI-AICHR) - A Collaborative Initiative of CCRAS, Ministry of AYUSH and ICMR