Volume 12, Issue 11
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Understanding Decision and Enabling Factors Influencing Clinical Trial Participation in Australia: A View Point
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Understanding patient decision making with respect to clinical trial participation has the potential to improve both the efficiency of recruitment for clinical trials and their management. In this mini-review we consider ...
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Association of COX-2 8473T>C Gene Polymorphism with Lung Cancer Risk
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)
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Exploration of Cancer Pain Treatment by Morphine Infusion through an Embedded Device
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Cancer pain treatment with morphine presents particular problems in patients with renal failure needing haemodialysis. We here explore the various possibilities of intrathecal opioid administration for intractable chronic ...
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Family History of Cancer and Risk of Gastric Cancer in Iran
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Introduction: Gastric cancer is one of the major causes of cancer related death in the world. A number of risk factors are now known to be related to the development of the disease. Previous reports indicated ...
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MDR1 Gene Polymorphisms: Possible Association with its Expression and Clinicopathology Characteristics in Colorectal Cancer Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Aim: Over-expression of some genes, such as MDR1, can increase the level of chemotherapy drug afflux and limit the effectiveness of treatment. We aimed to investigate the effect of MDR1 polymorphisms on its expression level ...
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Tumor Markers and Biochemical Parameters in Colon Cancer Patients Before and After Chemotherapy
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Objectives: Tumor markers and biochemical parameters were investigated in patients suffering from colon cancer and in volunteer healthy persons. Design and Methods: Biochemical analyses of erythrocyte ...
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Breast Cancer Research in Iran; Essential Data to Organize Research
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Background: Considering that breast cancer is one of the most burdensome diseases our societies are facing, and given our lack of knowledge in the research field of the important disease, it is essential that we ...
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Quality of Life in Women with Gynecologic Cancer in Turkey
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Aim: The management of gynecological cancer patients mainly aims at prolonging survival but modern therapy focuses on good survival combined with a good quality of life (QoL). The aim of this study was to evaluate QoL and ...
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Closing the Disparity Gap: Cancer Screening Interventions Among Asians – a Systematic Literature Review
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Background: Cancer is a leading cause of deaths among Asian Americans. However, the rates of screening among Asian Americans are low. The use of effective culturally-appropriate interventions needs to be explored. ...
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Genetic Variation in the MicroRNA-499 Gene and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Risk in a Turkish Population: Lack of Any Association in a Case-Control Study
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are an abundant class of small non-protein-coding RNAs with posttranscriptional regulatory functions as tumor suppressors and oncogenes. It has been suggested that the presence of single nucleotide ...
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Comparison of Aalen’s Additive and Cox Proportional Hazards Models for Breast Cancer Survival: Analysis of Population-Based Data from British Columbia, Canada
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Background: Regression models for survival data have traditionally been based on the Cox regression model. However, its validity relies heavily on assumption of proportional hazards. Another restriction of the Cox ...
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Polymorphisms in GSTM1, GSTTI and GSTP1 and Nasopharyngeal Cancer in the East of China: a Case-control Study
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Aim: The study was performed to assess the potential role of GSTM1, GSTT1 and GSTP1 polymorphisms in the risk of nasopharyngeal cancer in Chinese population. Method: We collected 182 cases undergoing pathologic ...
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Clinical Observation of Endostar® Combined with Chemotherapy in Advanced Colorectal Cancer Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Objective: Endostar® (Rh-endostatin injection) is a new recombinant human endostatin developed by Shandong Simcere-Medgenn Bio-Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd in China. This study was performed to evaluate the efficacy ...
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High Ki-67 Expression is a Poor Prognostic Indicator of 5-Year Survival in Patients with Invasive Breast Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Objective: Ki-67 is a biomarker that reflects cell proliferation. Despite a clear understanding of the protein’s structure and properties, its functional role remains elusive. We conducted the present study to ...
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The NQO1 C609T Polymorphism and Risk of Lung Cancer: a Meta-analysis
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Objective: NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1) is a cytosolic flavoprotein that catalyzes the two-electron reduction of quinoid compounds into hydroquinones. A single base substitution (CgT) polymorphism ...
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Decreasing Trends of Smoking and Smoking Cessation in Successive Thai Birth Cohorts: Age-period-cohort Analysis from 1991-2007 National Surveys
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Background: Many tobacco control policies have been implemented to reduce tobacco use throughout the world including Thailand. This study made use of surveillance data of the past two decades to examine age-period-cohort ...
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Low Activity of Manganese Superoxide Dismutase (MnSOD) in Blood of Lung Cancer Patients with Smoking History : Relationship to Oxidative Stress
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Lung cancer is the primary cause of cancer death in the world. Although it is well established that tobacco smoke causes lung cancer, not all smokers develop lung cancer. Manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD), a major ...
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Water Pipe (Shisha) Smoking and Associated Factors Among Malaysian University Students
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of waterpipe (shisha) smoking and associated factors among Malaysian university students. Methodology: A total of 200 university students ...
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Status of HER2 Amplification, Polysomy17 and Histopathological Features of 425 Pakistani Breast Cancer Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)HER2 gene amplification in invasive breast cancer is a robust predictive marker for response to transtuzumab therapy. This study was undertaken to measure concordance between immunohistochemistry (IHC) and FISH for HER2 ...
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Pathological and Clinical Characteristics of 1,248 Non-hodgkin’s Lymphomas from a Regional Cancer Hospital in Shandong, China
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2011-11-01)Introduction: Non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas (NHL) in China appear to have many characteristics different from those Western countries, but clinical studies to provide details have been rare so far. Methods:This ...
