Track Categories
The track category is the heading under which your abstract will be reviewed and later published in the conference printed matters if accepted. During the submission process, you will be asked to select one track category for your abstract.
Cancer is caused when cells within the body accumulate genetic mutations and start to grow in an uncontrolled manner. Understanding how cancer develops and progresses, including how gene mutations drive the growth and spread of cancer cells, and how tumours interact with their surrounding environment, is vital for the discovery of new targeted cancer treatments. Cancer Biology aids us in understanding why the cells divide in abnormal manner, when and what are the conceivable consequences of this. This also helps us in Prevention and Curing of the Oncogenesis.
Study of the behaviour of these Cancer Cells involves many approaches. Most of the times Cancer Biology and Genetics is studied taking animal models into consideration. Many of the Ground-breaking innovations in Cancer Studies are brought after understanding the behaviour of these Cancer Cells.
Cancer is one of the foremost reasons of death all over the globe. Organ Specific Cancers are cancers named based on the location of cancer in the body organ. There are more than 200 different types of cancer diagnosed. Among them, Lung cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosed in 2015. Its occurrence is showing a growing trend in various parts of the earth and has been a significant public health problem in spite of advances in the understanding of the molecular and cellular events that underlie. The ongoing research is discovering new carcinogens, clearing up how they cause cancer, providing insight into ways to prevent and treat.
Radiation oncology is a medical speciality that includes the measured use of radiation to treat cancer either for cure, or to reduce pain and other symptoms produced by cancer. Radiation therapy also called as radiotherapy is the term used to describe the actual treatment delivered by the radiation oncology team. Radiation Oncology includes all parts of research that impacts on the treatment of disease utilizing radiation. Radiation can be given as a healing methodology, either alone or in mix with medical procedure as well as chemotherapy.
The Neuro oncology is denounced to various malevolent disorders. Central Nervous System shelters its mechanism, Metastatic pestilence, Cancers, Neurons and Sensory Receptors, Ramification, Neurodegenerative disease, Neurological Disorders and Imaging agents to CNS neurofibroma. Cancer blowouts to the Nervous System by direct assault or compression from nonstop tissues relates to the proximity of the Nervous System to added structures.
Immunotherapy improves the immune system’s capability to identify, target, and abolish cancer cells wherever they are in the body, making it a possible universal answer to cancer. Cancer immunotherapy is an effective treatment for patients with certain sorts of cancers that are resilient to previous treatment with chemotherapy and radiation has also been permitted as a first line of treatment in numerous cancers. It may be given unaccompanied or in mixture with other cancer treatments. Cancer immunotherapies can be characterized as active, passive or hybrid. The immune retort including the acknowledgement of cancer-specific antigens, forms the basis of targeted therapy (such as vaccines and antibody therapies) and tumour marker-based diagnostic tests.
Cancer being one of the deadliest diseases in the world many have made it as priority to find complete cure for this. The same reason has made much advancement to be evolved in recent years. Cancer research has fetched enhancements in bioinformatics for emerging better drug development tools, Radiology to carry healthier diagnosis tools, Surgery to bring improved choices to achieve minimal invasive methods.
Cancer imaging has become a vital part in the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Sometime medical imaging is the first step in stopping the spread of cancer through early detection and in many cases makes it probable to cure or abolish the cancer altogether. Imaging forms a vital part of cancer clinical protocols and is able to furnish morphological, structural, metabolic and functional information. It is used to screen, diagnose and stage cancer, guide cancer treatments, determine the efficacy of cancer therapy and monitor cancer recurrence. Integration of oncology medical imaging with other clinical tools, such as in vitro tissue analysis, biomarker tests, and cancer screening, improves decision making. Early detection through screening based on imaging is the key contributor to a reduction in the number of deaths caused by certain types of cancers.
Cancer is the mail reason for deaths across the globe. The remedy for cancer is still a matter of research. However, there are few curing techniques available only if the person is diagnosed at the early growth stages. Cancer diagnosis becomes a very vital part of an individual’s survival.
Since the cancer cells exhibit properties of a normal cells till it reaches malignant stages, it becomes difficult to diagnose. However, few symptoms can act like the signals for the cancer growth. Once these symptoms are encountered one will have to undergo diagnosis techniques like Biopsy, Radiography etc. Through these methods’ practitioner will be able to predict the stage of the cancer and survivability of the patients.
About 70,000 young people (ages 15 to 39) are diagnosed with cancer each year in the accounting for about 5 percent of cancer diagnoses. This is 6 times the number of cancers diagnosed in children ages 0 to 14.Young adults are more likely than either younger children or older adults to be detected with certain cancers, such as testicular cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, and sarcomas. However the frequency of specific cancer types varies according to age. Leukemia, lymphoma, testicular cancer, and thyroid cancer are the most common cancers among 15- to 24-year-olds. Among 25- to 39-year-olds breast cancer and melanoma are the most common.
Adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients have not attained the same improvements in overall survival that either younger children or older adults have. One possible reason for this disparity may be that the AYA cancers exhibit unique biological characteristics resulting in differences in clinical and treatment resistance behaviors.
Radiology is a division of medicine that uses imaging technology to diagnose and treat disease.Radiology is divided into different areas, such as diagnostic radiology and interventional radiology. Diagnostic radiology helps the health care professionals to see structures inside your body. Doctors that specialize in the reading of these images are called diagnostic radiologists.
Interventional radiologists use imaging such as CT, MRI, ultrasound and fluoroscopy to help guide procedures. The imaging is helpful to the doctor when inserting catheters, wires, and other small instruments and tools into body. This typically allows for smaller incisions that is cuts on body. Doctors can use this technology to diagnose or to treat conditions in almost any part of the body instead of needing to directly look inside of your body through a scope or with open surgery. Interventional radiologists often are involved in treating cancers or tumors, blockages in the arteries and veins, fibroids in the uterus, back pain, liver problems, and kidney problems.
DNA is the source of genetic information in each living cell, its integrity and stability are essential to life. However, DNA is not inert rather, it is a chemical entity subject to assault from the environment and in resulting damage will lead to mutation and possibly disease. Perhaps the best-known example of the link between environmental-induced DNA damage and disease is skin cancer, which can be caused by excessive exposure to UV radiation. Beyond environmental agent’s DNA is also subject to oxidative damage from by-products like free radicals. It is also estimated that an individual cell can suffer up to one million DNA changes per day. In accumulation to genetic insults caused by the environment the very process of DNA replication during cell division is inclined to error.
Mutations in an organism's DNA which is a part of life. Genetic code is exposed to a variability of insults that threaten its integrity. But a rigorous system of checks and balances is in place over the DNA repair machinery. The errors that slip over the cracks may sometimes be related with disease, but they are also a source of variation that is acted upon by longer-term processes, such as evolution and natural selection.
Cancer nanotechnology offers numerous possible aids to cancer therapy, detection and diagnosis. The profits start by way of the fundamental properties of nanotechnology and the biological challenges of which it can aid to overcome. Nanotechnology in Cancer is working to guarantee that nanotechnologies for cancer applications are established responsibly. There is zero inherently risky about being nanosized.
The epidemiology of cancer is the investigation of the variables influencing growth, as an approach to construe conceivable patterns and causes. The investigation of growth the study of disease transmission utilizes epidemiological strategies to discover the reason for tumour and to recognize and create enhanced medicines.
This region of study must fight with issues of lead time inclination and length time predisposition. Lead time predisposition is the idea that early analysis may falsely expand the survival measurements of a tumour, without extremely enhancing the regular history of the illness. Length inclination is the idea that slower developing, more sluggish tumour will probably be analysed by screening tests, however changes in diagnosing more instances of lethargic malignancy may not convert into healthier patient results after the implementation of screening programs. A related concern is over diagnosis, the propensity of screening tests to analyse disease that may not really affect the patient's life span.
Today’s Oncology is different compare to early days of cancer treatment which provides more treatment options for better pain control and reduced treatment side effects. Oncology nurses work in a multi-disciplinary team, in a variety of settings, from the inpatient ward, to the bone marrow transplant unit, through to the community. Oncology nurses frequently serve as your first line of communication and help coordinate the many aspects of your care all over cancer treatment. The science is dynamic and continually evolving, with many new therapies on the horizon. Oncology nurses have significant roles to play all along the cancer care continuum.
The Specialized Oncology Nurse is one who has a combination of expanded education focused on cancer care and experience, The Specialized Oncology Nurse might acquire specialty education through a variety of ways; for example, enrolment in an undergraduate nursing program, completion of an Oncology Certificate Program, distance specialty education (such as offered in Adult and Paediatric Oncology Nursing) or registration in and completion of the certification exam.
The emergence of nanomedicine as an innovative and promising alternative technology shows many advantages over conventional cancer therapies and provides new opportunities for early detection, improved treatment, and diagnosis of cancer. Cancer nanomedicines has the capability of delivering chemotherapeutic agents while providing lower systemic toxicity and it is paramount to consider the cancer complexity and dynamics for bridging the translational bench-to-bedside gap. It is very important to conduct suitable investigations for exploiting the tumour microenvironment and achieving a more comprehensive understanding of the fundamental biological processes in cancer and their roles in modulating nanoparticle–protein interactions, blood circulation, and tumour penetration.
Cancer Vaccine helps in treating existing Cancer or stops its expansion. Vaccines that treat existing Cancer is known as therapeutic Cancer Vaccines. Some of the Vaccines are autologous prepared from samples taken from the patient and are specific to that patient. Some researchers claim that cancerous cells usually arise and are destroyed by the immune system and that Tumors form when the immune system fails to destroy them.
Cancer vaccines stimulate the ability of the immune system to protect the body against the infectious agents that may cause disease. Cancer vaccine are also called as biological response modifiers. Cancer vaccine are of two types : Preventive vaccine and treatment vaccine. The Preventive vaccine is used to stop the growth of the Cancer cell while the treatment vaccine are used to treat the existing cancer by natural immune system to fight against the cancer.
Pharmacology is the study of action of drugs. This subject deals with how these drug molecules enter the body, interact with the body, Affect the host system, Affect the foreign bodies, pathogens, its dynamics and how it is removed out from the body.
This involves many other topics such as- Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, Pharmacognosy, Pharmacoeconomics, Pharmacogenomics.
It is very well-known fact that one size doesn’t fit all. The genetic makeup of everyone is different, and the way drugs react to those genes keep on changing from individual to individuals.
Frequently this change in action evidences to be lethal in many individuals. Worldwide many hospitalizations and death occur due to the adverse effect of the drugs. In the recent days it has been in practice to develop the drugs specific to the genetic makeup of the patient to yield better results. This is proven to be a promising field of Pharmacy.
Ethnopharmacology is about association of the usual medication rehearsed by different ethnic gatherings and particularly by indigenous people groups. Ethnomedicine is now and then used as an equivalent word for conventional medication. Ethnomedical investigate about interdisciplinary in its investigation of customary prescriptions. It applies the strategies for ethnobotany and restorative human sciences. Over and over the prescription customs it contemplates are protected just by oral convention.Valid ethnomedical contemplates constitute either anthropological research or medication disclosure examine. Anthropological investigations examine the social observation and setting of a customary drug. The motivation behind medication disclosure investigate is to recognize and build up an attractive pharmaceutical item.
Advances in pharmacological research uses Nanoscale drug delivery systems with liposomes and nanoparticles which is a rising technologies for the rational delivery of chemotherapeutic drugs in the treatment for various disorders. Nanoparticles can present probable dangers both medically and environmentally.
Pharmaceutical industry is clearly filled by the research conducted with prescription drugs, vaccines and OTC drugs which are produced based on findings from the study of life sciences. Clinical trials are conducted to ensure that products being developed are tested on how well they work on individuals affected by the diseases or conditions they are created to treat.
Pediatrics pharmacology is an associate–reviewed, multi-disciplinary that is concerned to promoting the safe and effective use of medications in infants and children. Pediatrics Pharmacology focuses on the importance to understand in that pediatrics dosage form and drug interaction and how they can affect the children physiology. It is with better understanding of Pharmacology knows the right dosage and dosage forms of drugs. Further research in pharmacology deals with recognizing and responding to drug interactions and its side effects. And, its mechanism of action and its therapeutic index to treat accordingly. More intensive study with the interaction between pediatrics drug and its therapeutic effect helps to identify the properties of ideal pediatrics drugs.
Pharmacognosy in the simple terms this is the study of Drugs of natural Origin. This field of science take into consideration how a chemical, physical or a biological compound which are derived from the Nature acts in an individual’s body.
The way it enters the body, interact with the host and foreign body are taken into consideration. Though this branch of science has been in practice since a long-time people are turning toward this in the recent days after learning how good and safe, they are compared to the Industrial Pharmaceutics.
Reverse pharmacology includes drug screening deals with reverse pharmacology and forward pharmacology are two approaches to drug discovery. Drug discovery targets the process through which potential new medicines are identified.
The worldwide market for drug discovery technologies reached nearly $39.5 billion and $46.5 billion in 2013 and 2014, respectively. This market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.3% to nearly $79.5 billion for the period 2014-2019.
Medical toxicology is a division of science and drug worried about the investigation of the antagonistic responses of chemicals on living life forms. It additionally thinks about the hurtful impacts of substance, natural and physical specialists in organic frameworks that builds up the degree of harm in living creatures. The bond among dosage and its consequences for the bare living being is of high criticalness in toxicology. Variables that influence compound poisonous quality incorporate the measurements the course of presentation, the species, age, sex and condition.
Toxicologic inspection assumes urgent part in the cutting-edge examinations. Essential standards of a few orders like natural chemistry, systematic science, pharmacodynamics, the study of disease transmission, pathology, and physiology are connected in such sort of investigation.
Currently there are many innovative approaches that provides better care and cure. Resolution Pharmacology is one among the most innovative therapeutic approaches which is based on the biology of resolution to control chronic diseases. It will also help to identify better drugs.
Legislation in the pharmaceutical sector generally includes set of laws and regulations that are enforced to regulate various activities. Drug legislation generally includes provisions that are related to manufacturing, importing, distribution, marketing, prescribing, labeling, dispensing, product pricing, licensing, inspection and control of personnel and facilities.