Volume 16, Issue 1
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Application of Data Mining Techniques to Explore Predictors of HCC in Egyptian Patients with HCV-related Chronic Liver Disease
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second most common malignancy in Egypt. Data miningis a method of predictive analysis which can explore tremendous volumes of information to discover hiddenpatterns ...
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Overall Survival in Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Patients with and without Internal Tandem Duplication
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)
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Expression Profile and Potential Roles of EVA1A in Normal and Neoplastic Pancreatic Tissues
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: EVA1A (eva-1 homolog A) is a novel gene that regulates programmed cell death throughautophagy and apoptosis. Our objective was to investigate the expression profiles and potential role of EVA1Ain normal ...
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Significance of Hormone Receptor Status in Comparison of 18F -FDG-PET/CT and 99mTc-MDP Bone Scintigraphy for Evaluating Bone Metastases in Patients with Breast Cancer: Single Center Experience
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Fluorine-18 deoxyglucose positron emission tomography computed tomography (18F-FDG-PET/CT) and bone scintigraphy (BS) are widely used for the detection of bone involvement. The optimal imagingmodality ...
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Presentation Delay in Breast Cancer Patients, Identifying the Barriers in North Pakistan
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: There is strong evidence that delayed diagnosis of breast cancer is associated with poor survival.Our objectives were to determine the frequency of breast cancer patients with delayed presentation, the ...
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Kidney Cancer in Lebanon: a Specific Histological Distribution?
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Kidney cancer is the third most frequent urologic cancer in Lebanon after prostate and bladdercancer, accounting for 1.5% of all diagnosed cancers. In this paper, we report the histologic characteristicsand ...
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Comparative Evaluation of the Risk of Malignancy Index Scoring Systems (1-4) Used in Differential Diagnosis of Adnexal Masses
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: To determine the cut-off values of the preoperative risk of malignancy index (RMI) used indifferentiating benign or malignant adnexal masses and to determine their significance in differential diagnosisby ...
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Lack of Association between Hsa-Mir-499 rs3746444 Polymorphism and Cancer Risk: Meta-analysis Findings
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Epidemiologic findings concerning the association between the hsa-mir-499 rs3746444 A>G polymorphismand cancer risk have yielded mixed results. We aimed to investigate the association by performing a meta-analysisof all ...
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Distributions of the GSTM1 and GSTT1 Null Genotypes Worldwide are Characterized by Latitudinal Clines
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Deletion types of genetic variants of glutathione S-transferase (GST) M1 and T1, the GSTM1 nulland GSTT1 null which are risk factors for certain cancers, have been ubiquitously found in human populationsbut ...
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Neutrophil-lymphocyte Ratio Findings and Larynx Carcinoma: a Preliminary Study in Turkey
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: To identify the potential prognostic role of the neutrophil/lymphocyte (N/L) ratio in larynxcarcinoma. Materials and Methods: Oncologic archive charts of patients with a larynx carcinoma ...
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Attitude and Practices Among Dentists and Senior Dental Students in Iran Toward Tobacco Cessation as an Effort to Prevent Oral Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Oral health professionals are responsible in Iran for providing a brief tobacco cessation programto smoker patients. The aim of this study was to assess Iranian dental student and dentist practice, ...
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Adipo-R1 and Adipo-R2 Expression in Colorectal Adenomas and Carcinomas
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Human adiponectin (ApN), a 30 kDa glycoprotein of 244-amino acids which is predominantlyproduced by adipocytes, exerts its effects via two receptors, namely adiponectin receptor-1 (adipo-R1) andadiponectin ...
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Comparison of Metabolic and Anatomic Response to Chemotherapy Based on PERCIST and RECIST in Patients with Advanced Stage Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: The aim of this study was to explore the prognostic role of metabolic response to chemotherapy,determined by FDG-PET, in patients with metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials and ...
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Prognostic Significance of p53 in Gastric Cancer: a Meta-Analysis
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Gastric cancer is one of the frequently seen cancers in the world and it is the second most commonreason for death due to cancer. The prognostic role of expression of p53 detected by immunohistochemistry ...
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Patients with Spontaneously Ruptured Hepatocellular Carcinoma Benefit from Staged Surgical Resection after Successful Transarterial Embolization
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Surgical resection of spontaneously ruptured hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after successfultransarterial embolization (TAE) remains controversial. The aim of this study was to investigate its efficacyin ...
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Significance of Suppressor of Cytokine Signaling-3 Expression in Bladder Urothelial Carcinoma in Relation to Proinflammatory Cytokines and Tumor Histopathological Grading
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Bladder cancer is among the five most common malignancies worldwide. Altered expression ofsuppressor of cytokine signaling -3 (SOCS-3) has been implicated in various types of human cancers; however, ...
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Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Using the Gail Model: a Turkish Study
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Purpose: This study was conducted to determine risk of developing of breast cancer among Turkish women.Materials and Methods: Using a descriptive and cross-sectional approach, data were collected from 231 ...
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Clinical Study on Safety and Efficacy of JiSaiXin (Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor Injection Manufactured in China) for Chinese Undergoing Chemotherapy
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Objectives: To assess safety and efficacy of JiSaiXin (Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony StimulatingFactor Injection manufactured in China, G-CSF) 150ug per day for three days and whether this regimen ...
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Disagreement of ICD-10 Codes Between a Local Hospital Information System and a Cancer Registry
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: In the field of cancer, the ICD-10 coding convention is based on the site of a neoplasm in the bodyand usually ignores the morphology, thus the same code may be assigned to tumors of different morphologic ...
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Is there any Relationship between Food Habits in the Last Two Decades and Gastric Cancer in North-western Iran?
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Purpose: The aims of this case-control study were to assess the correlation between some food habits in thelast two decades and gastric cancer in East Azerbaijan of Iran. Materials and Methods: In this hospital ...
