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 ...

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 ...

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Asian women. Breast cancer is detected in advancedstages and among younger age group women in Asia. The delay in presentation is attributed mainly to the ...

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 ...

Background: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among Iranian women. This study was designedto estimate the burden of breast cancer in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Methods: In this retrospective ...

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 ...

This present study was conducted with the objective of providing the cancer profile of Larkana, the fourthlargest city of Sindh, Province. The study included two sets of patients. The first set included the incident ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We examined the modifying effect of freeze-dried whole-leaf Aloe arborescens Miller var. natalensis Berger (Kidachialoe in Japan; designated as ‘ALOE’) on azoxymethane (AOM)-induced intestinal carcinogenesis in rats. Male ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Background: Genetic analysis has a beneficial impact on retinoblastoma management enabling definite riskassessment. However, information regarding genotype-phenotype correlation in retinoblastoma is limited. Aim: ...

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) ...

Millingtonia hortensis is an important medicinal plant in Southeast Asia, used for the treatment of asthma, sinusitisand as a cholagogue and tonic. The aim of this study was to compare the effects of aqueous and ethanol ...

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 ...

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 ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the value of vaginal cytology in routine surveillance for recurrentcervical cancer after surgery. We reviewed the medical records of 565 patients with stage IB-IIA cervical cancer ...