Volume 16, Issue 3
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ارسال های اخیر
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Importance of Meta-Analysis and Practical Obstacles in Oncological and Epidemiological Studies: Statistics Very Close but Also Far!
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Studies of epidemiological and prognostic factors are very important for oncology practice. There is arapidly increasing amount of research and resultant knowledge in the scientific literature. This means thathealth ...
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Geographic Disparities in Prostate Cancer Outcomes - Review of International Patterns
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: This study reviewed the published evidence as to how prostate cancer outcomes vary acrossgeographical remoteness and area level disadvantage. Materials and Methods: A review of the literature ...
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The Economic Burden of Cancer in Korea in 2009
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Cancer imposes a significant economic burden on individuals, families and society. The purposeof this study was to estimate the economic burden of cancer using the healthcare claims and cancer registry ...
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End Stage Palliative Care of Head and Neck Cancer: a Case Study
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Locally advanced head and neck cancer is generally incurable and has a short survival rate. Thisstudy aimed to evaluate symptom relief, disease response, and acute toxicity after palliative hypo-fracti ...
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Anal Papanicolaou Smear in Women with Abnormal Cytology: a Thai Hospital Experience
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Anal intraepithelial lesions (AIL) are likely to represent a precursor for anal cancer. Womeninfected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may be at higher risk of anal cancer but a screening programfor ...
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Inflammatory Breast Cancer in Tunisia from 2005 to 2010: Epidemiologic and Anatomoclinical Transitions from Published Data
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Aim: To report epidemiologic and anatomoclinical transitions of inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) in Tunisia.Materials and Methods: Data including clinico-pathological data for208 cases of T4d or PEV 3 ...
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Serum Biomarkers for Early Detection of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Associated with HCV Infection in Egyptian Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma using serological markers with better sensitivityand specificity than alpha fetoprotein (AFP) is needed. Aims: The aim of this study was to evaluate the ...
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Novel Mutations in IL-10 Promoter Region -377 (C>T), -150 (C>A) and their Association with Psoriasis in the Saudi Population
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Psoriasis, a common cutaneous disorder characterized by inflammation and abnormalepidermal proliferation with a prevalence of 2-3% in the general population, may be linked to certain types ofcancer. ...
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Prevalence of Anxiety May Not be Elevated in Thai Ovarian Cancer Patients Following Treatment
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: To compare prevalence of anxiety in ovarian cancer patients following primary treatment tothat of normal women and to examine predicting factor. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional ...
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Analysis of FHIT Gene Methylation in Egyptian Breast Cancer Women: Association with Clinicopathological Features
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Fragile histidine triad (FHIT) gene is a tumor suppressor gene which involved in breast cancerpathogenesis. Epigenetics alterations in FHIT contributes to tumorigenesis of breast cancer. Objective: ...
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Survival Effect of Supportive Care Services for Turkish Patients with Metastatic Gastric Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Gastric cancer is the second most common cause of cancer- related deaths worldwide and ranks11th or 14th among all deaths. Patients with advanced disease require supportive care along with the medical ...
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Psychosocial Reaction Patterns to Alopecia in Female Patients with Gynecological Cancer undergoing Chemotherapy
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)This study aims to clarify the psychosocial reactions of female patients with gynecological cancer undergoingchemotherapy and in the process of suffering from alopecia and to examine their nursing support. The targetgroup ...
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Tobacco Chewing and Adult Mortality: a Case-control Analysis of 22,000 Cases and 429,000 Controls, Never Smoking Tobacco and Never Drinking Alcohol, in South India
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Tobacco is consumed in both smoking and smokeless forms in India. About 35-40% of tobaccoconsumption in India is in the latter. The study objective was to describe the association between chewing tobaccoand ...
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Contralateral Breast Cancer: a Clinico-pathological Study of Second Primaries in Opposite Breasts after Treatment of Breast Malignancy
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Breast cancer is by far the most frequent cancer of women (23 % of all cancers), ranking secondoverall when both sexes are considered together. Contralateral breast cancer (CBC) is becoming an importantpublic ...
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Hypermethylation of TET1 Promoter Is a New Diagnosic Marker for Breast Cancer Metastasis
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Breast cancer metastasis is a major cause of cancer-related death in women. However, markers for diagnosisof breast cancer metastasis are rare. Here, we reported that TET1, a tumor suppressor gene, was downregulatedand ...
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BreastLight Apparatus Performance in Detection of Breast Masses Depends on Mass Size
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Accurate measurement of breast mass size is fundamental for treatment planning. Weevaluated performance of BreastLight apparatus in detection breast of masses with this in mind. Materials andMethods: ...
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Mutation Detection of E6 and LCR Genes from HPV 16 Associated with Carcinogenesis
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for one of the most frequent sexually transmitted infections.The first phylogenetic analysis was based on a LCR region fragment. Nowadays, 4 variants are known: African(Af-1, Af-2), ...
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Matrix Metalloproteinase-9 -1562T Allele and its Combination with MMP-2 -735 C Allele are Risk Factors for Breast Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Background: Expression of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) is up-regulated in human cancers. The aimof present study was to investigate the role of MMP-9 C-1562T polymorphism and its interaction with MMP-2 C-735T ...
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Genetic Susceptibility to Oral Cancer due to Combined Effects of GSTT1, GSTM1 and CYP1A1 Gene Variants in Tobacco Addicted Patients of Pashtun Ethnicity of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)Associations of GSTT1, GSTM1 and CYP1A1 gene variants with risk of developing oral cancer were evaluatedin this study. A case-control study was conducted in Pashtun population of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ofPakistan in ...
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Quantitative Assessment of the Diagnostic Role of CDH13 Promoter Methylation in Lung Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-03-01)In order to explore the association between cadherin 13 (CDH13) gene promoter methylation and lungcarcinoma (LC) risk, we carried out a meta-analysis with searching of PubMed, Web of Science. Ultimately,17 articles were ...
