2001
51. (Letter) India’s new smoking laws. Jayant Sharad Vaidya Lancet Oncology April 2001;2(4):198 WWW, HTML, PDF
52. Targeted Intraoperative Radiotherapy (TARGIT): an innovative method of treatment for early breast cancer. JS Vaidya, M Baum, JS Tobias, D D'Souza, S Morgan, M Metaxas, S Naidu , K Harte, Alan Sliski, E Thomson Annals of Oncology August 2001:12:1075-1080. PDF. It is feasible and safe to deliver intraoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer using Intrabeam and we have started a randomised trial to test whether this could replace the usual 6-wk postoperative course.
53. (Letter)People cannot compute (more good- less bad = good press). Jayant S Vaidya, Sucheta J vaidya. BMJ 31 Oct 2001 http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/323/7316/782#17264
54. (Letter) Screening for breast cancer with mammography. JS Vaidya The Lancet 22/29 Dec 2001;358:2166, WWW, HTML, PDF If we believe Olsen and Gøtzsche, failure of screening to save lives is a sad fact that we might need to accept, and a plausible explanation may make it easier. Absence of benefit from screening may actually point to a very fundamental hidden biological clue - think away from the dogma of killing ‘early cancer’ and start thinking about living with dormant cancer.
55. Diseases of the Breast, (2nd Edition) Eds. Jay R Harris, Marc E Lippman, Monica Morrow, CK Osborne [book review] Vaidya JS , Keshtgar M, Baum M. Br J Cancer Dec 2001;83(12): 1769-1770
2002
56. Percutaneous Minimally invasive stereotactic Primary Radiotherapy Jayant SVaidya , Margaret Hall-Craggs, Michael Baum, Jeffrey S Tobias, Mary Falzon, Derek P D’Souza, Steve Morgan Lancet Oncology 2002;April 3(4):252-253 PDF High dose of radiation using the PRS400 delivered to the centre of breast cancer on a stereotactic prone-table as the primary treatment eradicated the tumour.
57. Minimally invasive therapy for the treatment of breast tumours Margaret A. Hall-Craggs and Jayant S. Vaidya European Journal of Radiology, Volume 42, Issue 1, April 2002, Pages 52-57 PDF
58. The novel technique of delivering targeted Intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT). JS Vaidya, M Baum, JS Tobias, D D’Souza, S Morgan. Eur J Surg Oncol June 2002; 28: 447-454 PDF
The detail operative technique of giving Targit - including the 8-min operative video.
59. Colonic Metastasis from breast cancer- a case report and some questions. JS Vaidya, H Mukhtar, Richard Bryan. Eur J Surg Oncol June 2002; 28: 462-463 PDF
60. (Letter) Management of early-onset breast cancer and BRCA1 or BRCA2 status. J S Vaidya, M Baum. The Lancet 24 Aug 2002;360:640. HTML, PDF Hafty and colleagues’ data means that women <42 yrs have a high risk of local recurrence risk (21% ipsilateral breast and 9% contralateral over 12 yrs); 20% will harbour a deleterious mutation of BRCA genes confering risks of 49% and 42%, respectively.
61. Understanding and Management of Breast Cancer: QuoVadis [Editorial] Jayant S Vaidya, Natl Med J India Sep-Oct 2002;15(5):252-6. PDF
62. (Letter) Preoperative radiotherapy for soft tissue sarcoma- correct interpretation of the randomised trial. JS Vaidya FF Palazzo The Lancet 14 Dec 2002; 360:1988-89.HTML, PDF Preoperative radiotherapy may indeed have a survival benefit but the trial does have enough power to detect it.
2003
63. (Letter) Chocolate cigarettes “recruit” children to smoking in BMJ News Roundup 8 Feb 2003;326:302 PDF
64. (Letter) Screening for breast cancer Jayant S Vaidya New Engl J Med 7 August, 2003;349:6:611 This review overestimates the effect of screening- it is actually 5 per 10,000 women screened and not 5 per 1000. WWW, WWWPDF, PDF
65. (Letter) Passive smoking: Study was flawed from outset: BMJ 30 August 2003;327:501 WWW, WWWPDF, PDF This tobacco sponsored study set out with a wrong assumption that there would be a difference between spouses of smokers and spouses of non-smokers in the 30 year period when public smoking was so common that this difference would small anyway- so it is not right to say that absence of difference is equal to no difference.
66. Clinical Picture: Gall Stone Ileus. JS Vaidya, O Lalude, D Grant, H Mukhtar. The Lancet. Accepted April 2002 published 4 Oct 2003;362-1105 .WWWPDF, WWWHTML, PDF
67. (Letter) The randomised study to test whether addition of ondansetron to droperidol reduces postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) after laparoscopic cholecystectomy was underpowered - Comment on “A Comparison of the Effects of Droperidol and the Combination of Droperidol and Ondansetron on Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting for Patients Undergoing Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy” J Clin. Anaesthesia, Nov 2003: 15:570 PDF
68. Commentary on “Detection treatment and outcome of isolated supraclavicular recurrence in 42 patients with invasive breast carcinoma van der Sangen MJC et al Cancer 200398:11-7 [ paper review] Vaidya JS and Kuerer, HM Women’s Oncology Review. Volume 3 Number 4 December 2003: 309-310