A case control study was carried out to investigate associations between breast cancer risk, antioxidantstatus and oxidative stress among women in Klang Valley and Selangor. A total of 57 newly diagnosed casesaged 30 to ...

The genotoxicity induced by mitomycin C (MMC) was found to be decreased by aspirin on alkaline singlecell gel electrophoresis (SCG) assay in multiple organs of mice. Aspirin at doses of 0.5, 5 and 50 mg/kg andMMC at 2 mg/kg ...

The association between an exposure of interest (risk factor) and a disease may be confounded by the actionof other separate factors as well as by interactions between risk factors exerting an impact. Crude measures ofeffect ...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumor in females. Many studies have been carriedout in order to assess the reproductive risk factors. Particular attention has focused on information ...

Src homology 2 domain-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase-2 (SHP-2) of gastric epithelial cells interactswith cagA from Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori). Our previous studies found the AA genotype of a G/A singlenucleotide ...

Background and aims: Regardless of the fact that cancers of GI tract have been reported to be the mostcommon fatal neoplasms in East Azerbaijan, there is a serious lack of population-based studies in this region. ...

Despite the mountain of information generated by researchers, the cancer problem has not significantlydeclined and perhaps in certain situations it is gradually increasing, affecting those who are previously at lowrisk. ...

Objective: To evaluate the clinicopathological characteristics and survival analysis in endometrialadenocarcinoma women younger than the age of 40 years compare to older women. Methods: Medical ...

There appear to be some differences between the patterns of brain tumor epidemiology in Iran and westerncountries. Thus, the prevalence of glioma was earlier estimated to be about 45% of all brain tumors, somewhatlow in ...

The purpose of the present study was to assess the ovarian cancer incidence rate among women of reproductiveage in Kyrgyzstan. Sources of data were records of all patients who were first diagnosed as suffering fromovarian ...

Introduction: Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a major complication of chemotherapy, costly in terms of morbidity,mortality and associated financial expenditure. The present study was conducted with the goal of ...

This study was undertaken to evaluate the incidence and independent predictors of unexpected invasivecancer of cervix in women with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSIL) on Pap smear who hadundergone “see and ...

The purpose of this study was to identify factors that influence starting and quitting smoking among Japanesemale adolescents aged 15-18. Two thousand and twelve senior high school boys in Fukuoka City, Japan, answeredunsigned ...

The last two decades have witnessed a major drift in the interests of the scientific community towardsexplaining better means to containing the health risks of the human race. The century old chemotherapiesagainst various ...

Background: The International Collaborative Epidemiological Study of Host and Environmental Factorsfor Stomach and Colorectal Cancers in Southeast Asian Countries (SEACs) has been conducted in Viet Namfrom 2003 to ...

Objectives: To study the relation between genetic polymorphisms of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase(MTHFR) C677T or A1298C and the susceptibility of colorectal cancer. Methods: We conducted a ...

This article provides an overview of aspects of the burden of cancer in the elderly, in India highlightingcertain demographic and epidemiological data. In India the normal retirement age is 60 years, so the definitionof ...

This study was undertaken to evaluate the incidence and independent predictors for febrile morbidity afterradical hysterectomy and pelvic lymphadenectomy. Patients with FIGO stage IB-IIA cervical cancers who hadundergone ...

A cross-sectional study was carried out to determine the knowledge and practices of 425 female secondaryschool teachers from 20 selected secondary schools in Selangor, Malaysia on breast cancer screening (BCS). Aself-administered, ...