Barbers have frequent occasion to come in contact with hair and beauty products that contain many chemicalsubstances, which could have harmful effects on health. Subjects were barbers belonging to the Barbers’ Unionof Aichi ...

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe utilization of radiotherapy and treatment compliance in thecontext of Nepal. Methods: A retrospective study was carried out on data collected from ...

Liver fluke infection of Opisthorchis viverrini (O. viverrini) is closely associated with several hepatobiliarydiseases including cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), but no reports have described these diseases in chronic andlong-standing ...

Background: Hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) appears to have a better prognosis thansporadic cancer. In the present study we evaluated the clinical outcomes of HNPCC patients in comparison withtheir ...

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the frequency of bcl-2 gene rearrangement in B-cellNon-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL) and identify different breakpoints of bcl-2 gene. Methods: ...

Background: The cancer incidence in developing countries is 7-16% under-estimated due to underascertainmentof elderly cases in cancer registry data. The global cancer incidence, as a mixture of incidence inall ...

At present no national level of cancer registry program exists in Pakistan and the data available from differentsources, necessary for incidence, prevalence, morbidity/mortality, and etiological assessment of cancer and ...

The renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a rare condition, accounting for only 3% of all adult malignancies althoughconstituting 90% of kidney cancers. The tumor is immunogenic and the host immune system may modulate theclinical ...

We examined the potential role of serum TGF-beta 1 levels to predict cancer mortality risk in a nested casecontrolstudy within a large prospective cohort of middle-aged and elderly Japanese subjects. The cases were893 ...

A total of 441 women teachers from 8 of the schools located in Delhi, India participated in this cross-sectionalstudy, conducted from July 2007 to February 2008. The mean age was 37.2 years. Some 92.7% of the teacherswere ...

The overall cancer incidence rate declines at very old age. Possible causes of this decline include the effects ofcross-sectional data that transform cohort dynamics into age patterns, population heterogeneity that ...

While comprehensive cancer registration data are available for some locations in India and Pakistan, thesituation regarding other countries in South Asia is less clear. Only one publication with cancer incidence datais ...

We conducted a quantitative summary analysis to evaluate the recent evidence of kidney cancer risk accordingto body mass index (BMI) among men. The studies included in this quantitative review were all cohort and ...

Cervical cancer is the second most common female malignancy in Malaysia. Despite advances in treatment,the overall survival for this disease has not changed in the last decade. Infection by certain types of HPV isrecognized ...

As in many countries of the world, prostatic adenocarcinoma is extremely common in Pakistan. In a studycarried out in our section, it was the third commonest malignancy in males, comprising almost 7% of all malignantneoplasms. ...

A community based study was conducted with women employees in a private sector office of Delhi. A totalof 106 women who volunteered to participate in the study were trained in the technique of breast self-examination(BSE) ...

Acetone extracts from a total of 30 species (197 samples) of plants commonly eaten in Japan were tested fortheir in vitro inhibitory properties against nitric oxide (NO) generation in a murine macrophage cell line, RAW264.7, ...

Background: To determine and compare the accuracy of sonographic and computerized tomography (CT)scan assessments in distinguishing between benign and malignant adnexal masses in an under-studied populationof Iranian ...