ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

These pages present to me the privileged opportunity to express my gratitude

for all those who have helped me in the accomplishment of this work.
First and foremost, I am grateful to God who bestowed on me the courage to
carry out the research work. With quite sincere and humble attitude, I bow before
Almighty who blessed me with peace of mind and courage to accomplish this
humble piece of work.
I pay deepest sense of respect and gratitude to Reverend Prof. (Dr.) R. B.
Lal, Honble Vice- Chancellor, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture
Technology & Sciences, for providing necessary facilities during entire course of my
research work.
I am proudly grateful to Prof. (Dr) S. B. Lal, Pro. Vice-Chancellor and Dean,
College of Forestry& Environment for his encouragement, kind help and cooperation
through out the course of my study.
I am very much grateful to Prof. (Dr.) S. Sheikh Dean, Halina School of
Home Science for her valuable suggestions and encouragement throughout my
research work.
Words in my lexicon, fail to elucidate my profound sense of veneration and
indebtedness to my Advisor, Dr. Neena Gupta, Asst. Professor (Sr.), Faculty of
Health Medical Sciences, Indigenous & Alternative System of Medicine, SHIATS,
Allahabad. Her able guidance, seasoned criticism and meticulous supervision enabled
this study to assume its present form. This confidence she showed in me and her
constant support helped me overcome every hurdle I faced in the course of this work.
Without her support, inspiring guidance, constructive and creative criticisms, deep
involvement and prolific encouragement, my dissertation could not have seen the light
of the day. I fall short of words to express the greatness of my esteemed advisor.
I would like to express my sincere thanks to my Co-Advisor, Dr. (Mr.) Ranu
Prasad, Prof. Department of Foods & Nutrition, SHIATS, Allahabad, for her

sympathetic approach, encouragement and valuable suggestions regarding my thesis

work.
I am profoundly grateful to my Research Advisory committee MembersSHIATS, Allahabad, for their generous help and cooperation during the course of my
research work.
I am deeply obliged to Dr. Virginia Paul, Dr. Anisha , Dr. Neeru Bala, Dr
Rekha Verma and Dr. Alka Gupta, Mrs. Shobha Lal, Dr. Varid Mala Jain, Dr.
Deepak Bose for their support, kind help and encouragement, which have made it
possible to bring out this research work successful.
I would like to thank all the non-teaching staff of the Department Miss.
Leena, Mrs. Alma and Mr. Rajesh, for their affectionate encouragement and
constant help.
I am thankful to authorities of CENTRAL and DEPARTMENTAL
LIBRARY for providing literature regarding my research work.
I am extremely grateful to Dr. B. Paul Thaliath, Additional Director,
Regional Cancer Centre, Kamla Nehru Momorial Hospital, Allahabad for his everready willingness to help me in my work his extremely busy schedule.
My sincere thanks to Mrs. Shobha Srivastava, Mrs. Renu Joshi, Mr. J.P.
Srivastava, Miss Usha Rani Singh, Mrs. Sangeeta Benerjee, Mrs. Praveen
Pandey and all other senior technologist and all official members who put the records
at Regional Cancer Centre, Kamla Nehru Momorial Hospital, Allahabad for their
guidance in the diagnosis of my cases and for the personal interest they showed in the
photography.
I would like express special thanks to Dr. Mangal Pandey, ENT Specialist in
Swaroop Rani Nehru Hospital, Allahabad, who helped in the selection of controls,
without his invaluable help and guidance, this work would have been a difficult task
to accomplish.
I express gratitude to Dr. D. Mitra, cancer specialist at Hayes Memorial
Hospital, SHIATS, Allahabad for his guidance, keen interest and untiring help in my
study.

I am also thankful to authorities of LIBRARY at Swaroop Rani Hospital,

Allahabad for giving me literature regarding to my topic.
Performance of a person depends mostly on his acumen and environment but it
also depends on the human ring around. I feel blessed to have such pals around me as
Mr. Subodh Yadav, Mrs. Seema Yadav, Mr. Yogesh, Mr. Sunil and all my
Juniors who have been quite helpful and supportive and with whom I spent
memorable days. Thank You...
I express my sincere, heartfelt and deepest sense of gratitude to Nishi,
Meenkshi, Nishu, Roli, Poonam, Chabbo, Krparkar and Neha for their
unflinching moral support, constant and everlasting inspiration and encouragement
which enables me to complete this monumental task fruitfully otherwise I could not
materialize this dream.
I have no words to express my heartful gratitude to my beloved and wonderful
parents, Mrs. Jagdish Chandra Rathore and Miss. Kanti Devi Rathore, who are
the tower of strength and source of inspiration for me, who dedicated their entire time
for my success, without whom I would never have been to this far. They always
supported and encouraged me, in the moment of despair they came forth to kindle a
ray of hope which rejuvenated me to work with renewed zeal so I cant forget to
recollect the kind of support which they have been provided throughout my
educational career.
I express my heartful gratitude to my elder brother Mr. Yogendra Singh,
bhabhi Mrs. Sunita and sister Miss. Reena for their love, affection, good wishes,
blessing, constant encouragement and inspiration, showered by them for the
achievements of my present educational assets. I express my warm appreciation to my
younger brother Mr. Anurag for his never ending love and best wishes. I am highly
devoted to my little Nephew Vaibhav and Varun.
Last but not least I am very much thankful to each and every person who
directly or indirectly helped me in completion of my research work.
Place: Allahabad

Date:

Alka Rathore