Little is known about factors that favor the development of cervical atypical squamous cells of undeterminedsignificance (ASCUS), nor how these factors might affect the pathogenesis of cervical neoplasia. The primary focusof ...

Given the immense variety of compounds being developed for introduction into the human environment, reliablemedium term alternatives to traditional long term rodent test protocols for carcinogen risk assessment are a ...

The effects of different patterns of alcohol administration on hepatocarcinogenesis induced by diethylnitrosamine ‍(DEN) in male Wistar rats were assessed using a modified Ito’s medium-term bioassay system. Carcinogenic ...

To obtain a relevant index of the impact of cancer on the Japanese population, considering curable cases as well asmortalities, the probability of developing cancer in the entire life span of a Japanese was estimated. A ...

Objective—To study the impact of tobacco advertisements and other social factors on the smoking habits of adolescents ‍in Calcutta, India. ‍Design — Cross sectional, school based survey of students in the IXth and XIth ...

One of the objectives of a cancer registry is to provide survival information on subsections of the population that ‍have unfavorable outcomes. A cancer control strategy can be planned on the basis of such information. In ...

Porphyrins exhibit potent antimutagenic activity in the range of assays in vitro and in vivo. The antimutagenic ‍activities of porphyrin derivatives including phthalocyanines (Pcs) were investigated using 6- ‍sulfooxymet ...

We examined the modifying effects of freeze-dried whole-leaf Aloe arborescens Miller var. natalensis Berger ‍(designated as ‘ALOE’) onN-ethyl-N’-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine (ENNG)-induced duodenal tumorigenesis in C57BL/ ‍6 ...

Gastric tumorigenic sensitivity to N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) was examined in heterozygous p53 knockout ‍(p53(+/-)) CBA mice and their wild-type littermates (p53(+/+)). In Experiment 1, 37 male p53(+/-) or 38 male p53(+/ ...

Polymorphisms in glutathione S-transferases (GSTs) may predispose to lung cancer through deficient detoxification ‍of carcinogenic or toxic constituents in cigarette smoke, although previous results have been conflicting. ...

A retrospective analysis of the 5-year follow-up data of 1003 cancer cervix patients registered at the Department of ‍Gynaecological Oncology of Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute (CNCI), Calcutta during the period ...

Since milk and dairy products constitute very important ingredients of the western style diet, a large number of ‍epidemiological studies have been conducted to determine effects of their consumption on neoplastic development. ...

We conducted a review of previous cohort studies on the association between a history of diabetes mellitus ‍(DM) and the occurrence of cancer. We limited the papers to those concerning cohort studies on 9 cancer sites, ...

On November 4-6th the APOCP staged its Founding Conference in the Royal Cliff Beach Resort, Pattaya, in the South- ‍East of Thailand. A total of approximately 50 scientists from across the region gathered in a beautiful ...