Astragalus, a commonly used traditional Chinese medicine, has exhibited antitumor actions in patients. In thisstudy, in vitro and in vivo antitumor effects of astragalus and synergistic antitumor efficacy in combination ...

Introduction: Although most prostate cancers initially respond to castration with luteinizing hormonereleasinganalogues or bilateral orchiectomy, progression eventually occurs. Based on the exciting results ...

Breast tubular adenomas are rare benign breast tumors and detailed descriptions of their sonographicappearance are necessary for differential diagnosis from fibroadenomas or breast cancers. This study investigatedtwenty-one ...

Objective: The tumor suppressor gene, Ras-association domain family (RASSF)2A, is inactivated bypromoter hypermethylation in many cancers. The current study was performed to evaluate the methylationstatus of ...

Aims: Alterations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) have been implicated in carcinogenesis and tumorprogression. We here evaluated the diagnostic and prognostic potential of mtDNA as a biomarker for breastcancer. Methods: ...

Background: The prognostic value of the Ki67 expression level is yet unclear in breast cancer. The aim of thisstudy was to investigate the association between Ki67 expression levels and prognostic factors such as ...

Background: Previous studies on the association of oral contraceptives (OC) use and lung cancer generatedinconsistent findings. The aim of this study was to confirm any definite correlation between OC use and ...

Aims and Background: Ginsenoside Rh2, which exerts the potent anticancer action both in vitro and in vivo,is one of the most well characterized ginsenosides extracted from ginseng. Although its effects on cancer ...

Purpose: To define factors that affect the performance status of BSE and confidence of student nurses.Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted in the academic year 2010-2011 in a nursing ...

Background: The association of colorectal cancer with human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) is a controversial issuein cancer research. This study aimed to identify the HCMV virus in colorectal cancer tissues and to ...

Background: Differences in clinicopathological characteristics of gastric cancer (GC) between young and olderpatients are controversial and a matter of debate. Determining the statistical significance of ...

Background: Urological cancers represent a major public problem associated with high mortality andmorbidity. The pattern of these cancers varies markedly according to era, region and ethnic groups, butincreasing ...

Background: Vitamin D deficiency is a potentially modifiable risk factor that may be targeted for breast cancer(BC) prevention. It may also be related to prognosis after diagnosis and treatment. The aim of our study ...

Background: Adenocarcinoma (ADC) is the most common histological type of lung cancer and its proportionis rising, especially in Asian non-smoking women. Recent studies suggest miR-25 may have diverse effects on ...

This research was conducted to compare differences in colon cancer lymphatic vessel invasion (LVI) withD2-40 antibody labeling and regular HE staining, blood vessel invasion (BVI) with CD34 antibody labeling andHE staining ...

Mutations in the DNMT3A and IDH genes represent the most common genetic alteration after FLT3/NPM1in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We here analyzed the frequency and distribution pattern of DNMT3A andIDH mutations and their ...

Background: To correlate breast cancer subtypes with prognostic factors, microvessel density (MVD),vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression and clinical features. Materials and Methods: ...

Background: Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a new non-invasive, mobile screening method whichdoes not use ionizing radiation to the human breast; allows conducting quantitative assessment of the imagesbesides ...

Objective: Metastases and invasion are the main reasons for oncotherapy failure. Momordica cochinchinensis(Mu Bie Zi in Chinese) had been used for a variety of purposes, and shown anti-cancer action. In this ...

Head and neck cancers (HNC) are extremely complex disease types and it is likely that chromosomalinstability is involved in the genetic mechanisms of its genesis. However, there is little information regardingthe background ...