Volume 13, Issue 8
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Cancer Registration in the Peoples Republic of China
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)The current situation of cancer registration in China was systematically reviewed. So far, cancer registrationin China has been making a great progress in the following aspects: the number of cancer registries and ...
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Tobacco Promotion and Availability in School Neighborhoods in India: a Cross-sectional Study of their Impact on Adolescent Tobacco Use
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Background: Adolescent tobacco use is a major public health problem. However, there is little informationabout the impact of tobacco advertising and availability near schools on adolescent tobacco use in ...
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Exon 8-9 Mutations of DNA Polymerase β in Ovarian Carcinoma Patients from Haldia, India
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Background: Ovarian cancer is the number one killer among all the gynecological cancers. We undertookassociation study to identify potential alterations in the genomic DNA of a DNA repair gene, DNA polymerasebeta ...
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Efficacy of Aprepitant in Patients with Advanced or Recurrent Lung Cancer Receiving Moderately Emetogenic Chemotherapy
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Aims and Background: To evaluate the efficacy of a combination of aprepitant and conventional antiemetictherapy in patients with advanced or recurrent lung cancer receiving moderately emetogenic chemotherapy(MEC). ...
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Translating Evidence into Practice in Low Resource Settings: Cervical Cancer Screening Tests are Only Part of the Solution in Rural India
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Background: The majority of women in rural India have poor or no access to cervical cancer screeningservices, although one–quarter of all cervical cancers in the world occur there. Several large trials have proventhe ...
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Comparison of Two Ovarian Malignancy Prediction Models Based on Age Sonographic Findings and Serum Ca125 Measurement
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Objective: The aim of our study is to compare an ovarian malignancy prediction model based on age andfour sonographic findings (OMPS1) with a new model called OMPS2 which differs just by adding serum CA125measurement ...
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Reconstruction of Combined Oral Mucosa-Mandibular Defects Using the Vascularized Myoosseous Iliac Crest Free Flap
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)The authors present five cases of combined oral mucosa-mandible defects reconstructed with thevascularized internal oblique-iliac crest myoosseous free flap. This technique has many advantages comparedto other conventional ...
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Effects of Care Burdens of Caregivers of Cancer Patients on their Quality of Life
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)In this study, the aim was to examine the effects of caring burdens of family caregivers of cancer patients ontheir quality of life in the east of Turkey. Data were collected at the Chemotherapy unit of Yakutiye ResearchHospital ...
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Retrospective Study of Gemcitabine Based Chemotherapy for Unresectable or Recurrent Esophagus Squamous Cell Carcinoma Refractory to First Line Chemotherapy
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Purpose: To investigate the efficacy and toxicity of a combination of gemcitabine with nedaplatin (GN)or cisplatin (GC) for patients with unresectable or recurrent esophagus squamous cell carcinoma. Methods:Gemcitabine ...
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Moderately Hypofractionated Conformal Radiation Treatment of Thoracic Esophageal Carcinoma
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Aims: To prospectively assess the efficacy and safety of moderately hypofractionated conformal radiotherapyin patients with thoracic esophageal cancer. Methods and Materials: From Sept. 2002 to Oct. 2005, 150 eligiblepatients ...
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Silencing of PDK1 Gene Expression by RNA Interference Suppresses Growth of Esophageal Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)The current study was conducted to explore the inhibitory effects of a small interfering RNA (siRNA) on3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase 1 (PDK1) expression in esophageal cancer 9706 (EC9706) cells andthe influence ...
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Lack of Any Relationship between ABO and Rh Blood Groups and Clinicopathological Features in Patients with Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors: Turkish Oncology Group
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Background: An association between the ABO blood group and the risk of certain malignancies, includingpancreatic and gastric cancer, has been reported previously. However, it is unclear whether this association is ...
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Green Tea Polyphenol Protection Against 4-Nitroquinoline 1-Oxide-Induced Bone Marrow Lipid Peroxidation and Genotoxicity in Wistar Rats
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)4-Nitroquinoline 1-oxide (4-NQO) a potent oral carcinogen, widely used for induction of oral carcinogenesis,has been found to induce lipid peroxidation in vivo and in vitro. Green tea contains a high content of polyphenols,which ...
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Association of Poor Prognosis Subtypes of Breast Cancer with Estrogen Receptor Alpha Methylation in Iranian Women
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Breast cancer is a prevalent heterogeneous malignant disease. Gene expression profiling by DNA microarraycan classify breast tumors into five different molecular subtypes: luminal A, luminal B, HER-2, basal and normallikewhich ...
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Retrospective Analysis of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer in Turkish Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Background: Neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy is the accepted approach for women with locally advancedbreast cancer. Anthracycline- and taxane-based regimens have been extensively studied in clinical trials ...
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Retrospective Analysis of 498 Primary Soft Tissue Sarcomas in a Single Turkish Centre
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Background: Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) must be managed with a team involving pathologists, radiologists,surgeons, radiation therapists and medical oncologists. Treatment modalities and demographic charasteristics ...
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Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine among Breast Cancer Survivors
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use is prevalent among individuals with cancer, especiallybreast cancer survivors. This study was conducted among 394 breast cancer survivors in selected regions ofPeninsular ...
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Anti-Proliferation Effects of Benzimidazole Derivatives on HCT-116 Colon Cancer and MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cell Lines
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Benzimidazoles 1-4 were obtained using modified synthesis methods and studied for their ability to inhibitcell proliferation of colon cancer cell HCT-116 and breast cancer cell MCF-7 using MTT assays. In the HCT-116cell ...
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Polymorphisms in the Thymidylate Synthase Gene and Risk of Colorectal Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)To evaluate the relationship between polymorphisms (28 bp repeated sequences in 5’-UTR and 6-bp ins/del in 3’-UTR) in then thymidylate synthetase gene (TS) and risk of colorectal, colon and rectal cancers, weconducted a ...
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Pomegranate (Punica granatum) Peel Extract Efficacy as a Dietary Antioxidant against Azoxymethane-Induced Colon Cancer in Rat
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2012-08-01)Functional foods include antioxidant nutrients which may protect against many human chronic diseasesby combating reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation. The purpose of the present study was to investigatethe protective ...
