Background: Health needs assessment is crucial for the provision of individualized nursing care. However, manypatients report a significant number of unmet needs. The aim of the present study was the assessment of ...

Background: No study to date provides evidence suggesting that lower cholesterol is associated with excess deathin non-cardiovascular disease (NCVD). This study aimed to determine the association between low cholesterol ...

Objective: This systematic review and meta-analysis were performed to determine association of dietary intake ratioof n-3/n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids with breast cancer risk in Western and Asian countries. Methods: ...

Background: Due to lack of availability of gene expression profiling (GEP) for most developing countries andclinicians; the immunohistochemistry (IHC) is mostly used in the clinical application. The aim of our study ...

Objective: Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs), present in body fluids, have been considering importance as cancerbiomarkers. The primary aim of this study was to assess whether circulatory miR-20a and miR-26a can be used ...

Objective: Three vaccines are available to Taiwanese young girls for cervical cancer (CC) prevention. Herewe evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the two-dose (2D) AS04-adjuvanted HPV-16/18 vaccine (2D-AS04-HPV-

Objective: The main objective of this study is to improve the classification performance of melanoma using deeplearning based automatic skin lesion segmentation. It can be assist medical experts on early diagnosis ...

Background: The use of targeted specific genes in therapeutic and treatment decisions has been considered forlung cancer. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene, which is over expressed in non-small cell ...

Background: The incident of malignant cancer due to smoking habit becomes a public health problem especiallyin the developing countries. Active smokers neglect to stop smoking even though various studies proved that ...

Introduction: Neuroblastoma (NBL) is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children. It accounts for 15%of the deaths from cancer in the pediatric age group. Approximately half of the newly diagnosed children ...

Objective: Bacillus Calmette-Guèrin (BCG) intravesical therapy is currently established using a low dose becauseof the high incidence of side-effects. Moreover, shortening the dwell time of BCG is conducted in some ...

Background: Early-onset or familial gastric cancer (GC) is known to have clinicopathologic profiles different fromthose of sporadic GC. We aimed to compare DNA damage response marker expression between early-onset ...

Background: Frailty, a risk of unfavorable outcomes from disability to adapt to stressors, is common in the elderlybut could occur in younger patients with cancer. This study focused on the prevalence of frailty in ...

Background: Accurate diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection plays an important role in furthereffective treatment. Rapid urine test (RAPIRUN) is a test developed for qualitative detection of urine H. ...

Cervical cancer is a major public health problem that continues to be one of the leading female genital cancersworldwide. In the kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), cervical cancer ranks the fifteenth most frequent cancer ...

Background: Patients in oncology setting are struggling with the complexed disease, and long and intensivetreatment options. This increase the need of patients for more coordination and effective hand-off between ...

Background and objective: The second most common cancer in men after lung cancer is prostate cancer (PC).Previous studies assessed the association between food items or food groups and the risk of PC, but diet quality ...

Background: Cervical Cancer (CC) is an important public health problem worldwide. In 2015, CC was the sixthleading cause of death for women aged 30-59 years in Mexico. Despite the importance of having high-quality ...

Purpose: Some variations in the sequence of methionine synthase reductase (MTRR) gene can increase the risk ofvarious cancers such as prostate cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between ...