Use of complementary and alternative therapies is widespread among cancer patients. Throughout the world ‍cancer patients try many questionable or unproven treatment methods. The reasons for adopting these therapies are ...

Two isoforms of cyclooxygenase, COX-1 and COX-2, have been identified and shown to be involved in ‍tumorigenesis. Although, overexpression of COX-2 in human cancers has been repeatedly reported, no data have ‍hitherto been ...

One of the most promising strategies for cancer prevention today is chemoprevention using readily available ‍natural substances from vegetables, fruits, herbs and spices . Among the spices, saffron (Crocus sativus, L) a ...

Cancer registries play a major role in providing the data to justify establishment, implementation and monitoring of ‍cancer control programs, therefore stability in cancer registration is of pivotal importance. An erroneous ...

this study is to describe the patterns of smoking among Iranian population. ‍Methods: Data from cross-sectional surveys of Health and Disease Survey (HDS) in Iran were utilized. Smoking ‍was categorized as no ...

Introduction: Breast Cancer is the most common cancer in Iranian women. This study aims to demonstrate the ‍characteristics of breast diseases- and especially breast cancer- according to pathologic records in ...

Research in cancer chemoprevention involves a number of activities, the first and foremost of which is acquisition ‍of detailed knowledge concerning the process of carcinogenesis and identification of points of intervention ...

The Sami is an ethnic group with ill-defined genetic origins, living in the northern areas of the Scandinavian ‍Peninsula and Russia. Distinct from other European populations in culture and language, they are generally ...

Objective: Development of a data-based short food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for evaluating intake of ‍nutrients by middle-aged Japanese. Methods: Of 102 foods listed in the formerly developed ...

Dietary factors are thought to be closely associated with the development of human cancers and hence numerous studies ‍in this area have already been conducted in the United States and other Western countries. Comparatively ...

Anonymization is an essential tool to protect privacy of participants in epidemiologiocal studies. This paper ‍classifies types of anonymization in genetic polymorphism studies, providing precise definitions. They are: 1) ...

Objective: To review epidemiological data on thyroid cancer in Iran. ‍Methods: The Tehran Cancer Institute Data System Registry (TCIDSR) was used to identify patients with different ‍histological ...