Background: A number of case-control studies were conducted to investigate the association of angiotensinconverting enzyme insertion/deletion (ACE I/D) polymorphism with breast cancer. But the results remain ...

Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) represents a heterogeneous group of diseases characterized by uncontrolledgrowth and spread of abnormal cells in the body. CRC vary on the basis of both the biologic features of ...

This paper addresses the automated detection of microcalcification clusters from mammogram images by enhancedpreprocessing operations on digital mammograms for automated extraction of breast tissue from background, ...

Background: Beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) as a ketone body is the metabolic fuel in oxidative phosphorylationpathway. So far the effects of BHB on the biology of tumor cells is contradictory. Therefore, we investigated ...

Background and objectives: To determine the head scatter factor, a formalism presented by Vadash and Bjärngardhas been employed to assess collimator exchange effects. The aim of this study was to determine the best ...

Background: Barrett's oesophagus (BO) is a pre-malignant condition in which normal squamous epithelium of thelower oesophagus and gastresophageal junction is replaced by columnar cells and progress to oesophageal ...

Background: The most common type of oral cancer is oral squamous cell carcinoma. If it is diagnosed in the earlystages; the success of the treatment can be increased. It seems that ELISA-based techniques as a screening ...

Objective: Colorectal cancer is one of the most common causes of death in the world. Despite of remarkableadvances in medical sciences, cancer is an important disease and the second cause of death after cardiovascular ...

Objective: With the over saturating growth of biological sequence databases, handling of these amounts of data hasincreasingly become a problem. Clustering has become one of the principal research objectives in ...

Background: Previous studies suggest the use of patient-reported outcome measures in routine clinical practice hasimportant benefits for patients with cancer, particularly as feedback regarding patients' quality of ...

Background: Awareness is the primary means to control breast cancer occurrence. The purpose of the present workis to study the risk of breast cancer occurrence in different age group, for the study area, Assam, India, ...

Background: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer among women in Turkey and worldwide,and is ranked as the second-leading cause of death in women after lung cancer. Early diagnosis of breast cancer ...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. Multidrug resistance (MDR) is still a greatobstacle of breast cancer chemotherapy. We have previously shown that multidrug resistance-associated protein ...

Background: Chemoprevention refers to the use of specificnatural or synthetic chemical agents to suppress thedevelopment and progression to carcinoma. The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of aspirin, ...

Background: Considering the increasing incidence of different cancers, use of modern technologies suchas TTCC can make a dramatic change in treatment of these diseases. So, if the evolution strategy conflicts with

Background: Few studies have examined preventive lifestyle behaviors and breast cancer (BC) screening behaviorssimultaneously to determine whether BC screening behaviors are associated with preventive lifestyle ...

Cervical cancer is the leading cancer in women around the world. In this paper, Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy InferenceSystem (ANFIS) classifier based cervical cancer detection and segmentation methodology is proposed. This ...

Objective: In this study, we investigated the in vivo antitumor activity and pharmacokinetic characteristics ofencapsulated GA-NC (gallic acid nanocomposite) in normal and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)-induced ...

Background: Aomori Prefecture has experienced the highest cancer-related mortality rates since the 2000s in Japan.In addition, income of residents in Aomori Prefecture is lower than that of a countrywide average. ...

Introduction: Abnormal cell proliferation appears to be a possible predictor of tumorigenesis, Ki-67 proteinexpression is closely related to the cell proliferation and could be used as a biomarker for the growth in ...