Cohort studies of human populations have provided the most convincing evidence of links between exposure tospecific agents and cancer. The Korean Multi-center Cancer Cohort (KMCC-II) is a multi-center prospective cohortdesigned ...

Objectives: Incidence rates for colorectal cancer are universally high in western countries while values in theorient are very variable. Japan is one of the oriental countries with a high incidence but any ...

Background: As there is a lack of data on stomach cancer disease in Asia, the aim of the present study was toexamine patterns and time trends for this neoplasm in Asian countries.Methods: A descriptive ...

Background: The human papiloma virus (HPV), which is sexually transmitted, and most commonly causesgenital warts, has been linked to cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and invasive carcinoma. Of ninety plus types ...

Investigation has been conducted to delineate the action of some phenolic compounds of natural origin in fourhuman tumor cell lines: acute myeloblastic leukemia (HL-60), chronic myelogenic leukemia (K-562), breastadenocarcinoma ...

D&C Red No. 36, a drug and cosmetic dye commonly used for coloring lipsticks, was evaluated for its carcinogenicpotential in male and female Wistar rats. This dye has been shown to exhibit mutagenic activity towards ...

Relative incidences of esophagus, lung and breast cancers differ in the various populations in Kyrgyzstan.Esophagus cancer is the most commonly observed among the Turkic groups, especially in Kazakhs, while lung andbreast ...

Our previous studies of 241 re-visit outpatients in the Helicobacter pylori (HP) eradication program (HPE) ofAichi Cancer Center Hospital (Jpn J Cancer Res 2001;92:383-389 ) and of 462 health checkup examinees (HCE) inNagoya ...

Tea (Camellia sinensis) is one of the most popular beverages, consumed worldwide. The health promotingproperties of tea have been attributed to its antioxidative polyphenolic constituents and their oxidative products.The ...

Epidemiological studies of cancer of the ovaries , among the leading sites for cancer incidence and mortality inwomen in very many countries of the world, have pointed to high saturated fat and carbohydrate intake,postmenopausal ...

Reliable data on incidence and mortalityfor childhood cancers are available from only a few areas in the developingcountries. Neoplasia in children is rare as compared with adult cancer. In Europe, North America and ...

In order to assess the prognostic value of family history (FH) of malignancies in patients afflicted with breastcancer (BC), we examined FH and histopathologic characteristics of 542 Iranian primary BC patients. Cases ...

The purpose of the present research was to estimate trends of change in cancer morbidity for the breast, uterinecorpus, cervix uterus, and ovaries of the female population of Kyrgyzstan as a whole and in separate regions ...