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Chandigarh 07th December:- A
paper presented by PhD scholar, Ms Charu Guleria was adjudged best paper in the
recently concluded AGOICON-2016, annual conference of the Association of
Gynaecologic Oncologists of India. The research was guided by Prof. Vanita
Suri, Head, Dept. of Obstetrics/Gynecology and Prof. Ritu Aggarwal, Dept. of
Immunopathology and Prof S.Radhika, Dept. of Cytology and Gynecological
Pathology, PGI Chandigarh. The same team was awarded best paper in the last year’s
meeting at Hyderabad as well.
The team is involved in research on
cervical cancer and its causative virus, the Human Papillomavirus. The team
demonstrated that HPV infection down regulates the Toll like receptors that
constitute important part of immune system. They also observed an increase
trend of cancer causing microRNA as a result of HPV infection in women with
cancer of cervix.
The research provides insight into
the causation of cancer of cervix. Cancer of cervix is one of the common
cancers in Indian women. The virus, HPV is well known to cause the deadly
cancer. A vaccine is already available against the virus.
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