Background: Prior studies examining the relation between diabetes mellitus (DM) and prostate cancer riskhave reported controversial findings. We examined this association by conducting a detailed meta-analysis of ...

Background: Many studies have investigated associations between the glutathione S-transferase M1 (GSTM1)null polymorphism and risk of prostate cancer, but the impact of GSTM1 in people who live in Asian countries ...

Prostate cancer is a leading cause of death in male populations across the globe. With the advent of geneexpression arrays, many microarray studies have been conducted in prostate cancer, but the results have variedacross ...

Background: Cancer is the leading cause of death in Taiwan. Spouses are generally the main caregivers ofaffectyed patients but previous studies have seldom investigated the needs of male spouses of patients ...

Background: Cigarette smoking is the major risk factor for development of lung cancer. Identification ofeffects of tobacco on airway gene expression may provide insight into the causes. This research aimed to ...

Background: Several studies have reported the role of the miR-146a rs2910164 G > C polymorphism as asusceptibility factor for several digestive cancers. However, the results have been controversial. Therefore, ...

This paper reports on part of a large study to identify competencies of oncology nurses in Malaysia. It focuseson oncology nurses’ communications-related competency. As an important cancer care team member, oncologynurses ...

Background: An increasing trend of cytotoxic drug use, mainly in cancer treatment, has increased theoccupational exposure among the nurses. This study aimed to assess the change of nurses’ safety-related knowledgeas ...

Background: Postoperative complications after esophagectomy can lead to considerable patient discomfortand prolonged length of hospital stay. Lack of physical activity can be one of the independent risk factors ...

Background: Low tyrosine-protein phosphatase nonreceptor type 12 (PTPN12) expression may be associatedwith breast cancer growth, proliferation, and metastasis. However, the prognostic value of PTPN12 in breastcancer ...

The aim of the present study was to determine whether allogeneic red blood cell transfusions showed adeleterious effect and what might be preoperative risk factors for blood transfusion in patients with TNM stageII colon ...

Background: Throughout Indonesia, thyroid cancer is one of the ten commonest malignancies, with papillarythyroid carcinoma (PTC) in our hospital accounting for about 60% of all thyroid nodules. Although fine ...

Curcumin (Cum) has been reported to have potential chemo-preventive and chemotherapeutic activitythrough influencing various processes, inducing cell cycle arrest, differentiation and apoptosis in a series ofcancers. ...

Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most common cancers worldwide, and theoutcomes for patients are still poor. It is important to determine the original type of synchronous multinodularHCC for ...

Urinary bladder squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), one of the most common neoplasms in Egypt, is attributedto chronic urinary infection with Schistosoma haematobium (Schistosomiasis). The proto-oncogene c-KIT,encoding a tyrosine ...

Objectives: To evaluate the frequency of cytohistologic discrepancy of high-grade squamous intraepitheliallesions (HSILs) in Pap smears and associated factors. Methods: Medical records of 223 women ...

Background: The aim of the study was to identify the relationship between ‘Health Belief Model Scale forCervical Cancer and the Pap Smear Test’ subscale scores and demographic/gyneco-obstetric characteristics.Materials ...

Background: TGF-β-activated kinase-1 (TAK1) has been found to be over-expressed in a variety of solidmalignancies and related to tumor growth. The aim of this study was to evaluate the expression level of TAK1in ...

Oncoprotein Bcl-3 is perceived as an unusual member of IκB family since it can both stimulate and suppressNF-κB activation. Aberrant Bcl-3 results in increased cell proliferation and survival, suggesting a contributionto ...

Background: Ovarian cancer is the second most common malignancy in Pakistani women, accounting for 4%of all cancers in the female population. The aim of this study was to determine sensitivity, specificity, positive ...