A population-based case-control study was carried out to investigate risk factors for hepatocellular carcinoma ‍(HCC) in Nagoya, Japan, including hepatitis virus infections, drinking and smoking habits and genetic polymorphisms ...

If smokers have different lifestyle including dietary habit in comparison to non-smokers, this difference have an ‍influence on the evaluation of the risks of smoking for tobacco-related diseases or the design of anti-smoking ...

Colorectal cancer is thought to originate in colorectal adenoma and endoscopic polypectomy may prove prophylactic. ‍To clarify the natural history of colorectal adenoma and the potential effects of endoscopic polypectomy, ...

The protective role of two commonly consumed natural dietary items- bitter gourd and tomato against endogenous ‍as well as 7,12- dimethylbenz(a)anthracene (DMBA) induced lipid peroxidation in the livers of mice was ...

Purpose The short-term effects of intravesical chemoimmunotherapy with epirubicin and Bacillus Calmette- ‍Guerin (BCG) administered repeatedlly for prophylaxis of recurrence of superficial bladder cancer (pTa, pT1) were ...

The dietary effect of monoglucosyl-rutin (M-R), a flavonoid, on azoxymethane (AOM)-induced colon carcinogenesis ‍was investigated in two experiments with 5 week old, F344 male rats. In the first experiment (5 weeks study), ...

Smoking is, and long has been, more prevalent among Maori than non-Maori in New Zealand. Lung cancer, but ‍not other smoking-related cancers, is known to be markedly more common among Maori than non-Maori. Incidence ‍and ...

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) convened a working Group of experts in March 1999 to ‍evaluate the cancer preventive potential of nine retinoids and to compile the fourth volume of the IARC Handbooks ...

The human dry dock, a Japanese system of detailed health check-ups for middle-aged and elderly people was ‍originally set up for the purpose of secondary prevention, but it is now expected to increasingly play a role in ...

The objectives of the UICC declared at the outset were of an essential nature for preventive oncology and have ‍very slowly been carried forward. Activities have rapidly expanded with progress in medicine and biology. ...