Reactive oxygen species cause damage to proteins, lipids and DNA. Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) is a compound withmitochondrial bioenergetic functions. The reduced form of CoQ10 shows antioxidant activity. In the present study,effects ...

Objective: Observational epidemiologic studies have shown that a high intake of dietary and high serum levels ofcarotenoids are associated with a reduced risk of mortality from cancer and cardiovascular disease. ...

Many chemopreventive agents appear to target signaling intermediates in apoptosis-inducing pathways. Inherently,the process of neoplastic conversion selects against apoptosis to initiate, promote, and perpetuate the ...

Since adolescents are now engaging in sexual activity in their early years, sexual behavior needs to be explored toprevent contact with HPVs and other sexually transmitted diseases (STD), including cervical cancer. This ...

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-encoded small RNA can be detected in about 1-17 % of gastric carcinomas. To elucidatelifestyles and other factors related to such an EBV-associated gastric carcinoma (EBV-GC), we conducted a ...

This study was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of the Papanicolaou (Pap) smear, colposcopicallydirectedbiopsy (CDB), and endocervical curettage (ECC) in preconization detection of adenocarcinoma in situ (AIS)of ...

Background: Urinary bladder cancer is the third leading cancer in male in Turkey. The incidence rates of bladdercancer are 13.0 and 2.1/ 100,000 for males and females, respectively, in Turkey. Smoking and occupation ...

Introduction: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States and thethird most common malignant neoplasm worldwide. Chinese Americans are one of the ethnic minority ...

The identification of tumor-associated T cell epitopes has contributed significantly to the understanding of theinterrelationship of tumor and immune system and is instrumental in the development of therapeutic vaccines ...

Objectives: To analyze records of patients seen with malignant epithelial ovarian cancer at a tertiary care cancerhospital in Pakistan and obtain information on factors as laterality, histology, CA-125 levels, ...

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer related death in most developed and many developing countriesof the world. Due to lack of validated screening methods and poor prognosis, treatment of lung cancer has ...

Major drawbacks of chemotherapeutic agents are their toxic side effects and lack of tumor specificity.Immunological and biochemical studies were here carried out to investigate protective effects of ethanolic extract ...

Cancer of the cervix is the second most common life-threatening cancer among women worldwide and bothincidence and mortality rates are likely to be underestimated in developing countries. HPV high risk strains play atleast ...

Background: The life styles of Thai people are changing with westernization and this would be expected to havean impact on the prevalence of cancer and other non-communicable diseases. For planning control programmes ...

This study aimed to investigate the histological outcome of cervix with human papillomavirus (HPV) infectionand the association of risk factors with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN) and invasive cervical carcinoma(ICC) ...

Objective: Among the low cost alternative screening tests Visual Inspection after Acetic Acid Application (VIA)has been found to be most promising. The objective of the present study was to evaluate the safety ...

Although risk factors for leukemia have been invastigated in numerous studies, only a few of them explain thedisease etiology. Established and suspected risk factors for leukemia can be classified as familial, genetic ...

Not only the incidence but the mortality of breast cancer has been steadily increasing in Korea over the lasttwenty years, and it became the most common female neoplasm in 2002. In fact, the increase in the rate of ...