Piperine is a major pungent substance and active component of black pepper (Piper nigrum Linn.) and longpepper (Piper longum Linn.). Both plants are used worldwide as household spices and condiments. They arealso used as ...

This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a peer education model in teaching breast selfexaminationto a late adolescence female student group attending the second class of Buca Educational Facultyof Dokuz ...

This study was designed to identify prognostic factors of patients with cervical cancer stage IB1 undergoingradical hysterectomy. The medical records and specimens of two hundred and five patients with cervical cancerstage ...

Purposes: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between family history, reproductive,anthropometric, lifestyle factors and risk of breast cancer according to menopausal status, using data from acase-control ...

The male breast cancer accounts for nearly 1% of all breast cancer cases and bilateral involvement occurs inless than 2% of the cases. Estrogen treatment for prostate cancer is a risk factor for primary breast cancer.Bilateral ...

Introduction: Malaysian women have a 1 in 20 chance of developing breast cancer in their lifetime. Sabah,formerly known as North Borneo, is part of East Malaysia with a population of 3.39 million and more than ...

Purpose: As developing nations such as India become increasingly Westernized, incidence rates will increasefor many cancers. Presently, breast cancer is the leading cancer site in female residents of India, but rates ...

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a preventable disease with a high mortality and morbidity. Data onits prevalence are lacking in Iran, as well as for adenomatous polyps. This study was conducted to estimateprevalence ...

Data from the South Australian Cancer Registry (SACR) for 1977-2003 were used to calculate expectedand actual distributions of cancer sites in Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal populations. Expected distributionswere ...

Objectives: Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is highly aggressive neoplasm which arises in the background ofgall stones and inflammation. GBC affects women 2-3 times more frequently than men. Pro-inflammatory TNFAand ...

Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS) is the rarest cancer among Iranian. This study was conducted to define the epidemiologyof KS in Iran. The data of National Cancer Registry (NCR) reports from 2003-2006, Tehran Population BasedCancer ...

Papillary microcarcinoma (PMC) is a thyroid tumor measuring 10mm or less in maximum diameter andcomprise up to 30% of all papillary thyroid cancers. Most of them are detected incidentally and defined asincidental papillary ...

Globally, colorectal cancer is the third commonest cancer in men since 1975.The present study focuses on thepreventive strategies aimed at reducing the incidences and mortality of large bowel cancer. Chemoprevention ofcolon ...

Frozen sections offer an important and helpful adjunct to intraoperative diagnosis and its use has greatlyimpacted on the care of gynecological oncology patients. Frozen section diagnosis is a reliable method for ...

The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the effects of perioperative blood transfusion duringradical hysterectomy with lymph node dissection on the prognosis of cervical cancer stage Ib. A total of 295patients ...

Today, cancer is the most common disease in many parts of the world. Choosing a healthy lifestyle andenvironment can help people prevent cancer development and an important aspect is better communication.Peer education ...

Cancer of the uterine cervix is the second most common cancer in females in the world with about half amillion new patients per year. Since the introduction by Papanicolaou of cervical smear screening, the incidenceof ...

Aim: To provide demographics and pathology of cancer of the uterine corpus in Karachi. Methodology:Data for 66 incident cases of cancer corpus uteri, ICD-10 category C54-5 registered at the Karachi CancerRegistry, for ...

Background: Very few population-based cancer survival studies have been performed in Viet Nam. The aimof the present study was to estimate observed and relative cancer survival rates in populations of Phu Tho,Hanoi ...

HPV-16 is the HPV most often linked to cervical carcinoma. E6 of the HPV-16 which expressed early incancer cells is a target for immune therapeutic methods. In the present study, after fetching the sequence ofHPV-16 E6 ...