Objective: The study was designed to assess the skin and subcutaneous toxicity in patients with advancedcolorectal carcinoma treated with four different schedules of FOLFOX. Methods: ...

Background: This study was designed to evaluate prevalence of the metabolic syndrome among cancersurvivors compared to non-cancer controls from a population-based sample and to identify associated riskfactors. ...

Objectives: To investigate data agreement of cancer registries and medical records as well as the quality ofcare and assess their relationship in a 5-year period from 2006 to 2011. Me ...

Objective: The optimal duration of adjuvant trastuzumab treatment in patients with HER2-positive breastcancer is not known. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of 6 months of adjuvant ...

Background: Breast cancer is the second leading cancer causing death in women. Circulating tumor cellsare among the prognostic factors while tumor markers are of diagnostic value and can be used for ...

Background/Aim: Stomach cancer is the second most common cause of death from all malignant tumors in theworld (third in men, fifth in women), with a strong decreasing trend in most developed countries. The aim of thisdescriptive ...

Background: The 7th TNM staging is the first authoritative standard for evaluation of effectiveness oftreatment of gastric cancer worldwide. However, revision of pN classification within TNM needs to be ...

Objective: This work aimed to evaluate the safety and clinical efficacy of transcatheter arterialchemoembolization (TACE) combined with c-arm cone-beam CT guided synchronous radiofrequency ablation(RFA) ...

This cross-sectional and descriptive study was designed to determine symptoms emerging due to chemotherapytreatment and their effects on children's quality of life. The research was carried out between February 2008 ...

Background: Pemetrexed (PEM) is effective in first-line treatment for patients with non-squamous non-smallcell lung cancer (NSCLC). However there are currently no definitive determinants to certify which ...

Metastasis is one of the hallmarks of malignant neoplasms and is the leading cause of death in many cancerpatients. A major challenge in cancer treatment is to find better ways to specifically target tumor metastasis.In ...

Background: To obtain the maximum additional information about the prognosis of gastric cancer, wecompared CA-50 with other previously defined markers. Materials and Methods: This ...

Background: Long-term survival is a problem with locally advanced and metastatic renal cell carcinomas.Sunitinib malate is an oral multitargeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor, but data on sunitinib use as a ...

Background: The purpose of this descriptive study was to investigate attitudes women of towards cervicalcancer prevention applications and early diagnosis, and whether or not their hopelessness levels had ...

Background: The aim of the study was to determine risk factors for cervical cancer for women in Izmir.Methods: This cross-sectional, descriptive field covered a population of 4319 women of reproductive ...

This study evaluated the effects of ZD1839, an orally active, selective epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)tyrosine kinase inhibitor, on nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) both in vitro and in vivo. Influence of ZD1839alone ...

Background: It is projected that low and middle-income countries will bear a major burden of tobacco relatedmorbidity and mortality, yet, only limited information is available on the determinants of smoking ...

Lung cancer remains a deadly disease with unsatisfactory overall survival. Resveratrol (Res) has the potentialto inhibit growth of several types of cancer such as prostate and colorectal examples. In the current study, ...

Helicobacter pylori antigen was prepared from an isolate from a patient with a duodenal ulcer. Serum sampleswere obtained from culture-positive H. pylori infected patients with duodenal ulcers, gastric ulcers and ...

Background: The aim of this study was to assess clinical factors associated with Helicobacter pylori positivityand to evaluate the incidence of gastric carcinoma in first-degree family members of infected ...