ISSN 2278-330X eISSN 2278-4306

South Asian Journal of Cancer

South Asian J Cancer

Editor in Chief Sujith Kumar Mullapally Padmaj Kulkarni Consultant, Medical Oncology, Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Sachin Hingmire Apollo Proton Cancer Center, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Consultant Medical Oncologist Chennai, India Research Centre, Pune, Pune, India Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Prasad Narayanan Research Centre, Pune, India Editorial Board Members Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Cytecare Cancer Center, Bangalore, Executive Editor Amit Bhatt India Director Avinash Cancer Clinic, Randeep Singh Nikhil Ghadyalpatil Medical Oncology, Avinash Cancer Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Yashoda Hospital, Secunderabad, India Center, Pune, India Tata Memorial Hospital, New Delhi, Ananatbhushan Ranade India Emeritus Editor Avinash Cancer Clinic, Pune, India Shailesh Bondarde Bharath Rangarajan Head and Director, Medical Purvish Parikh Kovai Medical Center and Hospitals, Oncologist, Apex Wellness Hospital, Director, Precision Oncology & Coimbatore, India Nashik, India Research, Shalby Cancer & Research Chetan Deshmukh Tarini Prasad Sahoo Institute, Mumbai, India Consultant, Medical oncology, Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital and Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Past Editors-in-Chief Research Center, Pune, India Bhopal, India G.S. Bhattacharyya Shweta Bansal Medical Oncologist, Oncology, Salt Editorial Assistant Consultant Pediatric Lake City Medical Centre, Kolkata, Hematooncologist and BMT Physician, India Sheetal Kadam Medical Oncology, Sir HN Reliance Ghanshyam Biswas SAJC, Pune, India Foundation Hospital, Mumbai, India Professor, Medical Oncology, Sparsh Vanita Noronha Hospital and Critical Care Pvt Ltd, Regional Editors Professor, Medical Oncology, Tata Bhubaneswar, India Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India K. Govind Babu Ahamed Iqbal Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Teaching Hospital, Batticaloa, Srilanka Joint Editors HCG Hospital, Bangalore, India Ahmad Javid Safi Kumar Prabhash Afghanistan Cancer Foundation, Mahesh Sambhus Prof, Medical Oncologist, Tata Kabul, Afghanistan Honorary Consultant, Surgical Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India A.F.M. Kamaluddin Oncology, Deenanath Mangeshkar Maheboob Basade Associate Professor (C.C), Radiation Hospital, Pune, India Head, Department of Medical Oncology, National Institute of ENT, M. Vamshi Krishna Oncology, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, Dhaka, Bangladesh Senior Consultant Medical Oncologist, India Medical Oncology, Apollo Cancer Nilesh Lokeshwar Institute, Hyderabad, India Leelavati Hospital, Mumbai, India Debnarayan Dutta Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Kochi, India ISSN 2278-330X eISSN 2278-4306

Phub Tsering Dhairyasheel Sawant Jyoti Bajpai Jigme Dorji Wangchuk National Surgical and Reconstructive Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India Referral Hospital, Thimpu, Bhutan Oncologist, Surgical Oncology, Asian Ashish Gulia Shyam Aggarwal Cancer Institute, Mumbai, India Professor, Orthopedic Oncology, Medical Oncologist, Medical Bharat Singh Bhosale Surgical Oncology, Tata Memorial Oncologist, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, India Hospital, Mumbai, Mumbai, India New Delhi, India Krupa Shankar S. Manit K. Gundavda Soe Aung Consultant Medical Oncologist, Orthopaedic Oncologist, Surgical Professor, Medical Oncology Medical Oncology, Adyar Cancer Oncology: Orthopaedic Oncology, P.D. (University of Medicine 1)/President, Institute, Chennai, Coimbatore, India Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Myanmar Oncology Society, ESMO Satinder Kaur Research Centre, Mumbai, India (Global Policy Committee Member); Sr Consultant, Gyn Oncology, Manish K. Singhal ASCO (Asia Pacific Regional Council Dharamshila Narayana Superspeciality Senior Consultant Medical Oncology, Member), Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) Hospital, New Delhi, India Medical Oncology, All India Institute of Rajendra Baral Amol Patel Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India Kathmandu, Nepal Ex- Co-Supervisor (DU Affiliation), Chaturbhuj Agarwal Zeba Aziz Army Hospital Research & Referral, Medical Oncology, Medical Oncology, Professor, Medical Oncologist, Hameed New Delhi, India Mumbai, India Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, Latif Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan Vivek Agarwala New Delhi, India Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology Raghunadhrao Digumarti Sectional Editors & Haemato-Oncology, Narayana Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Superspeciality Hospital and Cancer Cipher Cancer Clinics, Visakhapatnam, Indu Bansal Aggarwal Institute, Kolkata, India India Pt BDS PGIMS Rohtak, Gurugram, Raju Titus Chacko Haryana, India South Asian Editorial Board Professor, Medical Oncology, Christian Amish Vora Medical College, Vellore, Vellore, India Hope Cancer Clinic, Gurugram, Ashok K. Vaid Kalaichelvi Kanan Haryana, India Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology Madras Medical College, Chennai, India Akhil Kapoor and Hematology, Medanta-The Subash Ranjan Assistant Professor, Medical Oncology, Medicity, Gurugram, India Helping Hand Foundation, Thane, India Tata Memorial Hospital (HBCH & Chirag Desai Palanki S. Dattatreya MPMMCC), Varanasi, Varanasi, India HOC Vedanta, Ahmedabad, India Omega Hospitals, Hyderabad, India Vikas Talreja Senthil Rajappa Sudeep Gupta Consultant Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai, India Medical Oncology, DM Medical Basavatarakam Indo American Sudip Shreshtha Oncology (Tata), Kanpur, India Cancer Hospital and Research Center, Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Manoj Mahajan Hyderabad, India Nepal Cancer Hospital and Research Senior Consultant, Medical Oncology, Amit Rautan Center, Lalitpur, Nepal Pacific Medical College Hospital Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, India Syed Md. Akram Hossain (PMCH), Udaipur, India Dinesh C. Doval Square Hospitals, Dhaka, Bangladesh Bhavesh Parekh Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, Tashi Dendrup Wangdi Shalby Hospital, Ahmedabad, India New Delhi, India JDW NR Hospital, Thimpu, Bhutan Arvind Krishnamurthy Deepak Parikh Sanjay Sharma Cancer Institute (WIA), Adyar, Chennai, Professor, Surgical Oncology- Head & Asian Cancer Institute, Mumbai, India India Neck, Asian Cancer Institute, Mumbai, Ramakant Deshpande S.P. Somashekhar India Asian Cancer Institute, Mumbai, India Surgical & Gynec Oncology, Surgical Hemant Malhotra Anita Ramesh and Gunec Onco and HIPEC, GCRI, Professor and Head, Medical Oncology, Professor, Medical Oncology, Cancer Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India Mahatma Gandhi Medical College Institute ( WIA), Chennai, India Priya Iyer Hospital, Jaipur, India Kaustav Talpatra Associate Professor, Radiation Jai Prakash Agarwal Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Oncology, Cancer Institute Adyar, Professor, Radiation Oncology, Tata Mumbai, India Chennai, India Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India ISSN 2278-330X eISSN 2278-4306

Chetna Bakshi Chandrakanth MV Arman Reza Chowdhury Jupiter Hospital, Thane, India Consultant Medical Oncologist, Delta Hospital Limited, Dhaka, Reshma Puranik Medical Oncologist, Tata Memorial Bangladesh Poona Hospital & Research Center, Hospital, Kolkata, India Avirup Guha Pune, India Shripad Banavali Assistant Professor of Medicine, Sewanti Limaye Professor, Medical Oncology, Tata Cardiovascular Diseases, Case Western Consultant Medical Oncologist, Memorial Center, Mumbai, India Reserve University, Columbus, Ohio, Department of Oncology, Kokilaben Rajesh Jindel USA Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, Consultant, Medical Oncology, Private Jun Hua Chong India Hospital: Medella Cancer Cure Centre, National Heart Centre Singapore, Diptendra Sarkar Kolkata, India Singapore Professor, Comprehensive Breast Ajay Bapna Taro Shiga Service and Breast Cancer Research Medical Oncology, Tata Memorial The Cancer Institute Hospital, Tokyo, Unit, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Hospital, Jaipur, India Japan Education and Research; Nightingale Lalit Mohan Sharma Ajit Venniyoor Hospital, Kolkata, India Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital, Medical Oncologist, National Oncology S. Alex Antony Prasad Jaipur, India Centre, The Royal Hospital, Muscat, Clinical & Radiation Oncologist, Clinical & Viraj Lavingia Oman Radiation, Tata Memorial & Chennai Consultant Medical Oncology Bakul Dalal Cancer Care, Chennai, India (GI services), Medical Oncology, HCG Professor, Hematopathology, Arun Warrier Ahmedabad, Ahmedabad, India University of British Columbia, Medical Oncologist, Medical Keechilat Pavithran Vancouver, Canada Oncology, Aster Medcity Cochin, Professor of Medical Oncology, Apar Kishor Ganti Thrippunithura, India Medical Oncology, Amrita Institute of Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry Mangesh Kamath Medical Sciences, Kochi, India and Molecular Biology, University Medical Oncology, Medical Oncology, Amit Agarwal of Nebraska Medical Center & VA Fortis Hospitals, Bangalore, India Medical Oncologist, Medical Oncology, Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care Rajeev Vijayakumar AIIMS, New Delhi, India System, Omaha, Nebraska, USA Consultant, Medical Oncology, Bgs Hisham Ahamed Sayee Chirputkar Gleneagles Global Hospital, Bangalore, Clinical Associate Professor, Consultant Haematologist, Stockport India Cardiologist, Cardiology, Amrita NHS Foundation Trust, Stockport, UK Prashant Mehta Institute of Medical Sciences and Mangesh Thorat Senior Consultant, Medical Oncology/ Research, Kochi, India Deputy Director (Clinical), Cancer BMT, AIIMS, Delhi, NCR, India Raja Pramanik Prevention Trials Unit (King’s Health Narayanan Kutty Warrier All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Partners); Visiting Senior Lecturer, Senior Consultant, Medical Oncology, New Delhi, India King’s College London; Honorary MVR Cancer Center and Research Rakesh Gopal Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary Institute, Kozhikode, India Interventional Cardiologist, Sree Chitra University of London, Clinical - Breast Prakash Chitalkar Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences Surgery, Guy’s Hospital, London, UK Aurobindo Institute of Medical and Technology, Chennai, India Neel Nabar Sciences, Indore, India Vinayak V. Maka Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Tejpal Gupta Professor and Head of Department, Philadelphia, USA Tata Memorial Center, Navi Mumbai, Medical Oncology, M S Ramaiah Niraj H. Mehta India Medical College, Bangalore, India Gênesis Care, Miami, USA Rakesh Jalali Kavita Dharmarajan Apollo Proton Cancer Center, Chennai, International Editorial Board Icahn School of Medicine at Mount India Sinai, New York, USA Purna Kurkure Arjun K. Ghosh Amit Panwalkar SRCC Childrens Hospital, Mumbai, Consultant Cardiologist, Cardio- Consultant Oncologist/Hematologist, India Oncology, Barts Heart Centre and Sanford Roger Maris Cancer Center, University College London Hospital, Fargo, USA London, UK ISSN 2278-330X eISSN 2278-4306

Shaheenah Dawood Rohit Joshi Graciuex Fernando Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Adelaide, Philippine General Hospital, Manila, United Arab Emirates Australia Philippines Herbert Kim Lyerly Somasundaram S. Han Kwang Yang Duke University, Durham, USA Eurasian Cancer Foundation, Seoul National University College of Jame Abraham Moscow, Russia Medicine, Seoul, Korea Taussig Cancer Institute, Vinay Sharma Kim Tae You Cleveland, USA University of Witwatersrand, Seoul National University College of Kikeri N. Johannesburg, South Africa Medicine, Seoul, Korea Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK Madhavi Gorusu Kazuhiro Yoshida Noopur Raje Hartford Health Care, Hartford, USA Gifu University, Gifu, Japan Dana Farber Cancer Center, Boston, Ravindran Ankathil USA Universiti Sains Malaysia, Raymond Powles Penang, Malaysia Cancer Centre London, London, UK

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