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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the present investigation, the chemopreventive potential of aqueous extracts of the root and fruit of Tribulusterrestris (an Ayurvedic medicinal plant) on 7, 12 - dimethylbenz (a) anthracene (DMBA) induced papillomagenesisin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 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 ...

Introduction: Chinese immigrants to the United States experience high rates of liver cancer. Chronic carriage ofhepatitis B virus (HBV) is the most common underlying cause of liver cancer among Chinese Americans. ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the hormone receptor status of operable breast cancers inYogyakarta, Indonesia , and its correlation with other established prognostic factors and overall survival. ...

Chemopreventive activity of Phyllanthus amarus Schum & Thonn (Euphorbiaceae) extract was studied withregard to N-methyl N’-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (MNNG) induced stomach cancer in Wistar rats. Administration ofthe extract ...

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 ...