ONCOLOGY

Difficult Onco-surgeries are routinely performed at the hospital. With the advent of Stem Cell therapy along with the chemotherapy & Radiotherapy, Oncology treatments have become possible. The Hospital is in the process of commissioning separate Bone Marrow Transplantation Cell and Stem Cell Therapy.There is a growing trend to evaluate predictive biomarkers in enriched patient populations in early phases of clinical trial. Novel biomarker-driven, adaptive clinical trial designs can facilitate rapid evaluation of drugs, help validate multiple predictive biomarkers, minimise exposure of patients to ineffective therapies, and potentially allow accelerated drug approval in molecularly defined populations.

Enrichment

Enrichment is defined as the prospective use of any patient characteristics including demographic, pathophysiologic, historical, and genetic to select patients for a study population in which detection of a drug effect is more likely than it would be in an unselected population. While the main reason for enrichment is study efficiency (increasing the chance of success, often with a smaller sample size,) it also provides major benefits of individualisation, directing treatment where it will do the most good and sparing people who cannot respond to potential harm.There are three broad categories of enrichment: noise reduction (seeks to eliminate needless variability to improve the likelihood of distinguishing between two treatments); predictive (selects individuals who are likely to respond); and prognostic (selects high-risk patients for risk reduction studies.) The latter two enrichment approaches have an impact on generalizability of the results.