Background: DICER, one of the microRNA (miRNA) biogenesis proteins, is involved in the maturation ofmiRNAs and is implicated in cancer development and progression. The results from previous epidemiologicalstudies ...

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 ...

Background: The aim of this study was to establish the feasibility and efficiency of different pelvic drainageroutes after laparoscopic abdominoperineal resection (LAPR) for rectal cancer by assessing short-term ...

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 ...

Background: The standard treatment of local advanced nasopharyngeal cancer is chemoradiotherapy. Thereis a lack of data concerning induction therapy. In this study we retrospectively examined patients treated ...

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, ...

Purpose: To estimate the incidence of breast cancer in Yemeni female patients presenting with a breast mass.Materials and Methods: This retrospective study was carried out with 595 female patients with palpable ...

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 ...

Background: Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of non-Hodgkins lymphoma(NHL), accounting for approximately 25% of NHL cases. The aim of this study was to evaluate the associationbetween ...

Background: Many developing countries are lagging behind in reporting epidemiological data for individualcentral nervous system (CNS) tumors. This paper aimed to elicit patterns for the epidemiology of individualWorld ...

This descriptive epidemiological study aimed to analyse the mortality trends from gynaecological cancerin Serbia. Average annual percentage of change (AAPC) and the corresponding 95% confidence intervals(CIs) were computed ...

Background: The gene for the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), which promotes angiogenesis andpermeability, is polymorphic. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the relationship between +936C>Tand ...

The Japan National Committee for the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) and UICC-AsiaRegional Office (ARO) organized a Roundtable Discussion as part of the official program of the UICC WorldCancer Congress 2014 ...

Rad51, a key factor in the homologous recombination pathway for the DNA double-strand break repair,plays a vital role in genesis of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In recent years, more and more studiesindicate that ...

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 ...

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 ...

A lipopeptide extract of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens BACY1 (BLE) was found to induce cell death in human oralsquamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) cell lines, SCC4 and SCC25, in this study. The results of MTT assay showedthat BLE ...

Cancer, a serious public health problem in worldwide, results from an excessive and uncontrolled proliferationof the body cells without obvious physiological demands of organs. The gastrointestinal tract, including ...

Magnesium sulfate is widely used as a food additive and as an orally administered medication. The aim ofthis study was to evaluate the possible cytotoxicity of magnesium sulfate on AGS human gastric adenocarcinomacells and ...

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 ...