Tara Rajendran

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS:14

	Mukherjee, B., Rajendran, T., Augustine, A.M., Patil A., Mohanta S.K., Kamath N. Effects of Music Medicine on anxiety among primigravida mothers of preterm neonates: The CalM MOM randomized controlled trial protocol. Accepted for publication in PLOS One on October 2026.
	Rajendran T. (2026). The inheritance of light. Palliative & supportive care, 24, e142. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951526102703. PMID: 42124521.
	Rajendran T. (2025). Neglected local soundscapes in music therapy: cultural equity in research, policy, and practice in integrative oncology. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 33(12), 1144. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-025-10097-5. PMID: 41313361.
	Jayachandran S., & Rajendran T., (2025). Delay in Retinoblastoma Detection in LMICs: A Call to Action for Global Pediatric Health. Pediatrics, e2025072086. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2025-072086. PMID: 41183567.
	Rajendran* T., Patil, A., Mohanta, S. K., Krishnadasa, S. N., & Natarajan, V. (2025). Classical Indian music for managing anxiety and pain among patients in a hospital setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. Journal of public health (Oxford, England), 47(3), 527-539. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdaf048. PMID: 40331588.
	Rajendran* T. (2024). Veins of a leaf where water once ran. Palliative & supportive care, 22(5), 1534–1535. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951524001032. PMID: 39282718.
	*Rajendran T*. (2024). One question. Palliative & supportive care*, 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951523002043. PMID: 38269446.
	*Rajendran T.** (2023). Music therapy in cancer care: unravelling the complexities in LMICs. Supportive care in cancer: official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 31(12), 715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-023-08188-2. PMID: 37991584.
	*Rajendran, T.*, Kini, J. R., & Prasad, K. (2023). Primary Ovarian Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: An 18-year Retrospective Institutional Study and Review of Literature from India. Cureus*, 15(6), e40685. https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40685. 37485204.
	*Rajendran T*. (2022). A Musical Ode. JAMA oncology*, 8(9), 1256. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2022.1851 PMID: 35797030.
	*Rajendran, T*., & Summa-Chadwick, M. (2022). The scope and potential of music therapy in stroke rehabilitation. Journal of integrative medicine*, 20(4), 284–287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joim.2022.04.006 PMID: 35534380.
	*Rajendran T.** (2022). Addressing the need for personalizing music therapy in integrative oncology. Journal of integrative medicine, 20(4), 281–283. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joim.2022.01.005 PMID: 35078746.
	*Rajendran, T.*, Kini, J. R., Abna, A., & Prasad, K. (2022). Clinical benefit of R-CHOP without splenectomy in stage I primary splenic diffuse large B-cell lymphoma. BMJ case reports*, 15(1), e246610. https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2021-246610. PMID: 34983812.
	Kodali, S., Rajendran, T., Richard, I. N., Boyapati, L., Wong, E. C. C., & Avezbakiyev, B. (2019) Superwarfarin Exposure: An Important Uncommon Cause of Painless Bleeding, Journal of Hematology, 8(4), 155-159. https://doi.org/10.14740/jh538 PMID: 32300463.

CLINICAL TRIAL

Co-principal Investigator - ‘Effects of Music Medicine on Anxiety Among Primigravida Mothers of Preterm Neonates: A Randomized Controlled Trial’, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India. (CTRI Number: CTRI/2025/06/088896) (2025-2028)
Intellectual Property: ‘Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) Module on the 'Saraswati Veena' by Dr. Tara Rajendran’ (Government of India Copyright Office|Certificate No..: SR-2025023565).

Co-Principal Investigator “A randomized controlled trial on the effect of Indian classical music for chemotherapy and radiotherapy induced anxiety, pain and mood disturbance in head and neck cancer patients - A pilot study”; (Trial registration No. CTRI/2018/09/015801).

RESEARCH GRANTS

Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) Grant, Project “A study of clinicopathological, immunophenotypic, diagnostic, treatment characteristics of Non Hodgkin Lymphoma - Primary ovarian and with ovarian extensive involvement cases”, March 2016 - November 2016, under grant number STS 2016-02109.

Manipal University Grant, Project “Bleomycin pulmonory toxicity in Hodgkin Lymphoma treated with ABVD regimen not followed by radiation”, April 2016 -December 2016, under grant number S No.:3 2016.

ABSTRACT PUBLICATIONS

Tara Rajendran, Prasad Pramod Raneand Krishna Prasad. (2019) Long Term Response Evaluation of Newly Diagnosed Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Patients on Imatinib Mesylate in Indian Population over 12 Years, Blood,134 (Suppl_1): 5913. doi: https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2019-125978

Tara Rajendran and Krishna Prasad. (2018) Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia: Clinical Outcomes, Induction Deaths and Challenges, Blood , 132(Suppl 1, 5191; https://doi.org/10.1182/blood-2018-99-116705

Tara Rajendran and Krishna Prasad. (2018) Clinical profile of triple negative breast cancer in Indian women: Long term follow-up study,
Journal of Clinical Oncology,, 36, 15_suppl; abstr e13109.

Tara Rajendran and Ishwara Keerthi C. (2018) Outcomes of spinal stabilization in multiple myeloma with unstable vertebral lesions background, Journal of Clinical Oncology, 36, 15_suppl; abstr e20028.

Tara Rajendran and Krishna Prasad. (2017) Clinicopathologic, immunophenotypic, diagnostic, treatment characteristics of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: Diffuse large B cell: Primary ovarian and with ovarian extensive involvement. Clinical Cancer Research; 23(24_Suppl):
Abstract nr 33. DOI: 10.1158/1557-3265.HEMMAL17-33.

Tara Rajendran and Krishna Prasad. (2017) Bleomycin pulmonory toxicity in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma treated with ABVD regimen not followed by radiation. Clinical Cancer Research; 23(24_Suppl): Abstract nr 34. DOI: 10.1158/1557-3265.HEMMAL17-34.

CONGRESS ACTIVITIES
International Oral Presentations

International Poster Presentations

Tara Rajendran MBBS MFA, Jyoti Ramanath Kini MD, Aysha Abna MBBS MD, and Krishna Prasad MD DM, “Metastatic lung adenocarcinoma with concurrent exon 19Del and exon 21 L858R EGFR-mutation responding to Gefitinib plus Pemetrexed and Cisplatin: A case report.” ePoster presentation; KSMO 2022, 15th Annual Meeting of the Korean Society of Medical Oncology & 2022 International Conference, September 1-2, 2022, Seoul, Korea.

Tara R and Krishna Prasad, “Clinicopathologic, immunophenotypic, diagnostic, treatment characteristics of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma: Diffuse large B cell: Primary ovarian and with ovarian extensive involvement.” Poster presentation; American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference on Hematologic Malignancies: Translating Discoveries to Novel Therapies; May 6-9, 2017, Boston, United States.

Tara R and Krishna Prasad, “Bleomycin pulmonory toxicity in Hodgkin’s Lymphoma treated with ABVD regimen not followed by radiation.”
Poster Presentation; American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) conference on Hematologic Malignancies: Translating Discoveries to
Novel Therapies; May 6-9, 2017, Boston, United States.

Tara R, Krishna Prasad, Keerthiraj B “Primary splenic diffuse large B cell lymphoma stage 1E masquerading as hemangioma” Poster Presentation; Indo-German convention of Lindau alumini (IGCLA); September 2014, Manipal University, India.

National Poster Presentations

Krishna Prasad, Tara R, Prakhar Singh, Chakrapani M, Unnikrishnan B, Ramesh Holla, Shashidhar Kotiyan, Mohammed Asheel, Neethu, Sanjay Prabhu, “Relationship between Endosulfan level in human blood and Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma Breast - A case control study in Kasargode, South India.” Poster Presentation; Indian Society of Medical and Pediatric Oncology - Indian Society of Oncology conference; November 2015, & Mumbai, India.

Unnikrishnan B, Darshan B, Rahul Bevara, Rishee Manoharan, Amrita Suresh, Ritwik Ghosh, Tara. R, “Knowledge and utilization of Janani Suraksha Yojana among antenatal mothers attending a tertiary care hospital”. Poster Presentation; Manipal University Research day; February, 2015, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, India.