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ReviewEcancermedicalscience2026

Patient and public involvement in cancer care and research: the Indian perspective.

Priya Ranganathan, Manju Sengar, Aparna Mittal, Vivek Tomar, Girish Chinnaswamy, C S Pramesh

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Review in Ecancermedicalscience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Priya RanganathanDepartment of Anaesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain, Tata Memorial Hospital, Tata Memorial Centre, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai 400094, India.
Manju SengarNational Cancer Grid, Homi Bhabha Block, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400012, India.
Aparna MittalNational Cancer Grid, Homi Bhabha Block, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400012, India.
Vivek TomarNational Cancer Grid, Homi Bhabha Block, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400012, India.
Girish ChinnaswamyNational Cancer Grid, Homi Bhabha Block, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400012, India.
C S PrameshNational Cancer Grid, Homi Bhabha Block, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai 400012, India.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biomedical research aims at improving human health through scientific studies, and is crucial for medical progress through identifying more effective ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease. Patients (and public) are integral elements in medical research, and no research is meaningful unless it is patient (or person) centered. However, conventionally, the role of patients and the public has been restricted to only being participants in research. There is growing awareness that to be truly person-centered, research must include the patient and public voice at every stage of the research process, including priority setting, asking the right question, designing and conducting the study, interpreting and disseminating the results and ensuring that research informs policy. While this framework is reasonably well-established in some high-resource countries, it is at a very nascent stage in resource-poor settings. In this article, we examine the role of patient and public involvement in cancer care and research, with a focus on the Indian perspective.

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community involvementpatient advocacypatient representativepublic participation

Identifiers

PMID42131877
PMCPMC13161578

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