Objectives: The aims of this descriptive study were to characterize lung cancer patients by age at diagnosis,smoking status, and histology and, also to explore the histologic sub-type according to cigarette ...

Objectives: To examine associations of ever-use of sex hormones (EUSH) and other factors with endometrialcancer (EC) mortality through a nation-wide Japan Collaborative Cohort Study. Methods: A total ...

Background: Screen-detected breast cancers are usually diagnosed at earlier stages. Therefore, countries withlimited resources are recommended to implement clinical breast examination (CBE) as a screening method ...

Cancer epidemiological research has a long and distinguished history and as we continue our work in ever ‍expanding new fields, molecular or otherwise, it is perhaps worthwhile to take time out occasionally to ponder what ...

In the scenario of limited resources for implementation of screening programmes in Pakistan, the only practical option for early detection is through mass education about cancers, their risk factors, screeningmodalities ...

Newly synthesized phthalazine derivatives including copper and platinum complexes were evaluated forcytotoxicity in human breast cancer cell lines. The cells were incubated with the compounds (100 μM) for 72 h andcytotoxicity, ...

Renal transplantation confers increased survival with improvement of immune suppressive drugs, but certaintypes of neoplasm can arise as secondary complications. It is thus well known that recipients have significantlyincreased ...

There is a high incidence of oral, pharynx and esophagus cancer among males in Na Mom district in SongkhlaProvince in Thailand, an area where radium concentration in shallow well water is found to be higher than otherareas ...

The glutathione S transferase (GST) family of enzymes play a vital role in the phase II biotransformation ofenvironmental carcinogens, pollutants, drugs and other xenobiotics. GSTs are polymorphic and the polymorphismsin ...

The purpose of this study was to test the amplification of DNA from human urinary sediment for molecularepidemiological studies. Twenty-six urine samples were obtained from healthy volunteers. Polymerase chain reactions(PCR) ...

The present investigation was undertaken to explore the anti-tumor promoting activity of Rosemarinus officinalison two-stage skin carcinogenesis, induced by a single topical application of 7, 12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene ...

Objective: To evaluate trends in survival and treatment for myeloid leukaemia in South Australia during 1977-2002, using population-based survival data plus data on survival and treatment of patients at three ...

The study examined the association of diabetes mellitus (DM) history with total and common site-specific cancersusing a large cohort of 23,378 men and 33,503 women, extracted from 127,477 healthy participants of the JACCStudy ...

Introduction: The proportion of elderly persons has increased in most countries during the last few decades, and ‍will increase further in the coming years. A population-based study was here carried out to ...

The aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) is a ligand-activated transcription factor with which halogenated and ‍polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons such as dioxins and benzo[a]pyrene interact as ligands. Since such compounds ‍cause ...

The aim of this study was to analyze the clinicopathologic features and survival outcomes of women withsynchronous primary carcinomas of the endometrium and ovary that were treated at Chiang Mai University Hospitalbetween ...

Phenobarbital (PB), a rodent non-genotoxic carcinogen, showed hormesis, biphasic effects on rat livercarcinogenesis. To test the hypothesis that the hormesis earlier observed for PB induced hepatocarcinogenesis mightalso ...

An epidemiologic assessment of the problem of cancer in women in Kerala based on 3 Population Cancer Registry ‍data and a Hospital Based data is presented. Kerala’s Socio-economic and demography presents an intermediate ...