Volume 16, Issue 1
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Burden of Virus-associated Liver Cancer in the Arab World, 1990-2010
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is amongst the top three cancer causes of death worldwide with hepatitis Band C viruses (HBV/HCV) as the main etiological agents. An up-to-date descriptive epidemiology of the burdenof ...
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VEGF-C and VEGF-D Expression and its Correlation with Lymph Node Metastasis in Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer Tissue
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: To explore vascular endothelial growth factor C (VEGF-C) and VEGF-D expression andits correlation with lymph node metastasis in esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) tissue. Materials andMethods: ...
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Predictors of Knowledge Level and Awareness towards Breast Cancer among Turkish Females
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most-common malignancy of women worldwide. Though there aredifferences among developed and developing countries, BC remains the most common cancer type of women inTurkey. ...
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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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Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention among Public Health Midwives on Breast Cancer Early Detection in the District of Gampaha, Sri Lanka
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Breast cancer is the commonest cancer among Sri Lankan females, accounting for 26% of thecancer incidence in women. Early detection of breast cancer is conducted by public health midwives (PHMs)in the ...
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Effects of Progressive Relaxation Exercises on Anxiety and Comfort of Turkish Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Chemotherapy
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer in the world and by far the most frequent canceramong women. Objective: This study was conducted to observe the effect of progressive relaxation ...
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HPV-Associated p16 INK4A Expression and Response to Therapyand Survival in Selected Head and Neck Cancers
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Background: Development of squamous cell cancer of head and neck (SCCHN) is associated with humanpapillomavirus (HPV) infection, which in turn is closely related with expression of p16 INK4A. Loss of p16 INK4Aexpression ...
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Metformin Down-regulates Endometrial Carcinoma Cell Secretion of IGF-1 and Expression of IGF-1R
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)As metformin can inhibit endometrial carcinoma (EC) cell growth and the insulin growth factor (IGF)system is active in EC, the question of whether t can regulate endometrial carcinoma cell secretion of IGF-1or expression ...
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Transcatheter Arterial Chemoembolization Combined with Interferon-α is Safe and Effective for Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma after Curative Resection
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-01-01)Objectives: Intrahepatic recurrence is the major cause of death among patients with hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) after curative surgical resection. Several approaches have been ...
