Objective: The main aim of this study was to evaluate the awareness of cervix cancer risk factors amongEducated Youth with respect to socio demographic factors. Materials and methods: A cross-sectional ...

Breast cancer is the second most common cancer amongst women, in Iran comprising 21.4% of femalecancers. There are several screening modalities for breast cancer including breast self-examination, clinicalbreast examination ...

Background: This paper gives a profile of the cancer incidence in Oman for a nine-year period from 1998-2006. Methods: Data from the population-based national cancer registry were consolidated for the ...

Background and Objectives: Preventable cancers like cancers of cervix, breast and oral cavity claim more than 142,500 lives of Indian women annually. Mobile cancer screening may help in early detection and ...

The study aimed to evaluate the curative effects and toxicity of different paclitaxel (PTX) plus poldinechemotherapeutic combination methods for treatment of advanced ovarian carcinoma. A total of 27 patients withovarian ...

Purpose: The purpose was to investigate Chios mastic gum (CMG) extract as an potential anti-tumor agentfor oral squamous cell carcinoma in vitro. Methods: We designed a study to examine the effects of CMG ...

Background: Smoking, the most important preventable cause of death overall, is also the leading cause ofcancer-related mortality. Tobacco consumption has a direct or indirect relationship with most types of cancer. ...

Objective: To compare the safety and efficacy of a combination of 5-Fu, pirarubicin and CTX (FPC) withFEC as a postoperative adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. Methods: A total of 655 breast ...

Thailand is in the process of developing a national cervical screening program. This study examined p16INK4astaining and HPV prevalence in abnormal cervical samples with atypical squamous cells of undeterminedsignificance ...

Objective: Since 2000, thyroid cancer has been increasing most rapidly in Korea. Although the cause of theincrease is not clear, thyroid cancer screening could be identified as one of its causes. The purpose ...

The transcription factor, Forkhead Box M1 (FoxM1), has a specific expression pattern during the cell cycle. Italso plays an important role in cellular developmental pathways and in the maintenance of homeostasis betweencell ...

Background: Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers afflicting men today. Prostate biopsy, aninvasive procedure is generally used for diagnoses but attempts are being made to find accurate and precise ...

In order to verify effects of Yiqi Chutan Tang on lung cancer and assess molecular mechanisms involvedwe focused on size, tumor weight and the numbers of lung metastases and differential expression proteinspot information ...

This study investigated the influence of Lentinula edodes mycelia extract (LEM), an oral immunomodulator,on immune function and adverse events from chemotherapy. Subjects comprised 1 gastric and 7 colorectalcancer patients. ...

Background and Aims. China was one of the countries with the highest esophagus cancer (EC) mortalityin the world during the 1970’s. This report provides data on time trends of esophagus cancer mortality duringthe 1970’s-21st ...

Objective: Because benign and malignant cervical and ovarian masses occur with different percentagesin different age groups,the importance of primary diagnosis and selection of a suitable surgical procedure ...

All gynecologic cancer survivors require a surveillance program for the detection of recurrence andcomplications after the complete treatment. However, this type of surveillance program might be leading to anunseen burden ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women, and the major cause of cancer deaths in women20- 59 years old. The present retrospective study was undertaken to examine survival in all newly diagnosedbreast cancer in ...

Background: The incidence of esophageal squamous cell cancer (ESCC) is strikingly variable by geographicarea, which reflect different exposures to risk factors, including genetic predisposition. Previous studies ...

HER-2/neu has been found to be amplified or overexpressed in about 20-30% of breast cancers, in associationwith negative prognosticators and shortened survival. Determination of HER-2/neu status in breast-cancerpatients, ...