مرور Volume 16, Issue 6 بر اساس عنوان
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Advances in the Management of Unresectable or Metastatic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Chemotherapy, Targeted Therapy, Hormonal Treatment, and Future Directions
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are rare and heterogenous tumors and surgery to remove theprimary tumor is the mainstay of treatment for resectable disease. However, curative surgery is often not feasible,because ...
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Analysis on Early Detection of Lung Cancer by PET/CT Scan
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: This systemic analysis was conducted to to evaluate the application value of positron emissiontomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in early diagnosis of lung cancer. Methods: Clinical ...
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Association Between Alterations in the Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Status During Follow-Up and Breast Cancer Patient Prognosis
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: Serum vitamin D status can affect the prognosis of breast cancer patients. Our aim was todetermine the association between alterations in the 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] status during follow-upand the ...
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Association between the XRCC3 Thr241Met Polymorphism and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: a Meta Analysis of 5,193 Cases and 6,645 Controls
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: Many studies have reported associations of the X-ray repair cross-complementing group 3(XRCC3) Thr241Met polymorphism with colorectal cancer (CRC) risk, but the results remained controversial.Hence, we ...
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Autophagy in Tumorigenesis and Cancer Treatment
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Autophagy is a self-digestion process, wrapping cytoplasmic proteins or organelles to form vesicles fordegradation in lysosomes. The process plays an important role in the maintenance of intracellular homostasis. Herewe ...
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Cancer Incidence and Mortality Data in Aktobe, West Kazakhstan, 2000-2010
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)The article provides an assessment of the dynamics of cancer incidence and mortality in the territory ofAktobe city for the period 2000-2010. The most common cancers were found in the lungs, stomach, esophagusand breast ...
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Case-Control Study of Diet and Prostate Cancer in a Rural Population of Faisalabad, Pakistan
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: The effects of diet on epidemiology of prostate cancer are inconclusive. Therefore a hospitalbased,case-control study was conducted in a rural population of Faisalabad, Pakistan, to examine the impact ...
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Cellular Protrusions - Lamellipodia, Filopodia, Invadopodia and Podosomes - and their Roles in Progression of Orofacial Tumours: Current Understanding
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: Protrusive structures formed by migrating and invading cells are termed lamellipodia, filopodia,invadopodia and podosomes. Lamellipodia and filopodia appear on the leading edges of migrating cells ...
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Citrus Fruits and their Bioactive Ingredients: Leading Four Horsemen from Front
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Cancer is a multifaceted and genomically complex disease and rapidly accumulating high impact researchis deepening our understanding related to the mechanisms underlying cancer development, progression andresistance to ...
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Cobalt Chloride Induces Necroptosis in Human Colon Cancer HT-29 Cells
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Necroptosis, also known as “programmed necrosis”, has emerged as a critical factor in a variety of pathologicaland physiological processes and is considered a cell type-specific tightly regulated process with mechanismsthat ...
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Colorectal Cancer Treatment and Survival: the Experience of Major Public Hospitals in South Australia over three Decades
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: Registry data from four major public hospitals indicate trends in clinical care and survivalfrom colorectal cancer over three decades, from 1980 to 2010. Materials and Methods: Kaplan-Meier ...
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Comparative Analysis of the Efficacy and Safety of Oxaliplatin Plus 5-Fluorouracil/Leucovorin (Modified FOLFOX6) with Advanced Gastric Cancer Patients having a Good or Poor Performance Status
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: Combination chemotherapy of 5 fluorouracil (5-FU) and leucovorin (LV) with oxaliplatin,mainly FOLFOX regimens, has shown considerable antitumor activity and a tolerable toxicity profile in gastriccancer. ...
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Continuous DC-CIK Infusions Restore CD8+ Cellular Immunity, Physical Activity and Improve Clinical Efficacy in Advanced Cancer Patients Unresponsive to Conventional Treatments
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: There are few choices for treatment of advanced cancer patients who do not respond to or tolerateconventional anti-cancer treatments. Therefore this study aimed to deploy the benefits and clinical efficacy ...
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Continuous-infusion Ifosfamide and Doxorubicin Combination as Second-Line Chemotherapy for Recurrent or Refractory Osteosarcoma Patients in China: a Retrospective Study
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Objective: The aim of this retrospective study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficacy of response tocontinuous-infusion ifosfamide and doxorubicin combination as second-line chemotherapy for patients ...
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Cost-effectiveness Analysis of Cervical Cancer Screening Strategies Based on the Papanicolaou Smear Test in Korea
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: Despite the increasing number of screening examinations performed for cervical cancer utilizingthe Papanicolaou smear test (Pap test), few studies have examined whether this strategy is cost-effective ...
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Curcumol Induces Apoptosis in SPC-A-1 Human Lung Adenocarcinoma Cells and Displays Anti-neoplastic Effects in Tumor Bearing Mice
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Curcumol is a sesquiterpene originally isolated from curcuma rhizomes, a component of herbal remediescommonly used in oriental medicine. Its beneficial pharmacological activities have attract significant interestrecently. ...
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Dendrosomal Curcumin Inhibits Metastatic Potential of Human SW480 Colon Cancer Cells through Down-regulation of Claudin1, Zeb1 and Hef1-1 Gene Expression
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-associated death worldwide. The prognosis for advancedcolorectal cancers remains dismal, mainly due to the propensity for metastatic progression. Accordingly, thereis a ...
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Effects of Metformin on Cell Kinetic Parameters of MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells in Vitro
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)In this study, the antiproliferative effects of the metformin was evaluated on MCF-7 Cells (human breastadenocarcinoma cell line). For this purpose cell kinetic parameters including cell proliferation assay, mitoticindex ...
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Effects of TESTIN Gene Expression on Proliferation and Migration of the 5-8F Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma Cell Line
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Purpose: To investigate effects of the TESTIN (TES) gene on proliferation and migration of highly metastaticnasopharyngeal carcinoma cell line 5-8F and the related mechanisms. Materials and Methods: The target ...
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Evaluation of Biochemical Recurrence-free Survival after Radical Prostatectomy by Cancer of the Prostate Risk Assessment Post-Surgical (CAPRA-S) Score
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-06-01)Background: The cancer of the prostate risk assessment (CAPRA) score has been defined to predict prostatecancer recurrence based on the pre-clinical data, then pathological data have also been incorporated. Thus,CAPRA ...



