Volume 16, Issue 9
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ارسال های اخیر
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Esophageal Cancer in Brunei Darussalam over a three Decade Period: an Epidemiologic Study of Trends and Differences between Genders and Racial Groups
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Carcinoma of the esophagus is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The mostcommon subtype is squamous cell carcinoma (SCC). In the past three decades, the incidence of SCC has beenreported ...
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Trastuzumab-based Retreatment after Lapatinib in Heavily Pretreated HER2 Positive Metastatic Breast Cancer: an Anatolian Society of Medical Oncology Study
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: For HER2 positive metastatic breast cancer (MBC), continuing anti-HER2 therapy beyondprogression is associated with improved outcome. However retreatment with trastuzumab after lapatinibprogression is ...
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Innovation Status of Gene Therapy for Breast Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: To analyze multi-source data including publications and patents, and try to draw the wholelandscape of the research and development community in the field of gene therapy for breast cancer. Materialsand ...
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Cancer Screening Adherence of Asian Women According to Biochemically-verified Smoking Status: Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Men and women who smoke tend to show less compliance to screening guidelines than nonsmokers.However, a recent study in Korea showed that self-reported female smokers constituted less than halfof ...
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Prognosis and Clinicopathology of CXCR4 in Colorectal Cancer Patients: a Meta-analysis
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)The chemokine receptor 4 (CXCR4) has been widely used in diagnosis and prognosis of colorectal cancer(CRC). However, there is no current consensus on the impact of CXCR4 on CRC patients. The purpose of thisstudy was to ...
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Mutation Analysis of IDH1/2 Genes in Unselected De novo Acute Myeloid Leukaemia Patients in India - Identification of A Novel IDH2 Mutation
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)IDH1/2 mutations which result in alternation in DNA methylation pattern are one of the most commonmethylation associated mutations in Acute myeloid leukaemia. IDH1/2 mutations frequently associated withhigher platelet ...
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Genetic Variants in ASCT2 Gene are Associated with the Prognosis of Transarterial Chemoembolisation-Treated Early-Stage Hepatocelluar Carcinoma
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most prevalent malignancies worldwide.Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) is the standardized therapy for intermediate stage HCC. However, theprognosis for ...
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Clinical Application of Serum Tumor Abnormal Protein from Patients with Gastric Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: To verify whether serum tumor abnormal protein (TAP) would correlate with the responsivenessof palliative chemotherapy in patients with advanced gastric cancer, and the variation of conventional serumtumor ...
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MDM2 (RS769412) G>A Polymorphism in Cigarette Smokers: a Clue for the Susceptibility to Smoking and Lung Cancer Risk
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Cigarette smoke contains oxidants and free radicals which are carcinogens that can induce mutations inhumans. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most frequent genetic alterations found in the humangenome. In ...
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Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma - Comparative Evaluation of Pathological Parameters in Young and Old Patients
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: To evaluate pathological features of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) and tocompare these pathological features in patients younger and older than 40 years. Materials and Methods: ...
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Coenzyme Complex Decreased Cardiotoxicity When Combined with Chemotherapy in Treating Elderly Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Objective: To investigate the effect of coenzyme complex on decreasing cardiotoxicity in elderly patients withgastrointestinal cancer who were treated by chemotherapy. Methods: From September 2011 ...
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Consanguinity Protecting Effect Against Breast Cancer among Tunisian Women: Analysis of BRCA1 Haplotypes
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of consanguinity on breast cancer incidence in Tunisia. Weconducted a case-control study to evaluate the involvement of heterozygote and homozygote haplotypes ofBRCA1 gene ...
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Aberrant Methylation of the 1p36 Tumor Suppressor Gene RIZ1 in Renal Cell Carcinoma
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Retinoblastoma protein-interacting zinc finger gene 1(RIZ1) functions as a tumor suppressor.Hypermethylation-mediated RIZ1 silencing has been reported in several cancers, but not in renal cell carcinoma(RCC) ...
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Suppression of the Epidermal Growth Factor-like Domain 7 and Inhibition of Migration and Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Human Pancreatic Cancer PANC-1 Cells
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Epidermal growth factor-like domain multiple 7 (EGFL7), a secreted protein specificallyexpressed by endothelial cells during embryogenesis, recently was identified as a critical gene in tumor ...
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Clinical Observation on Recombinant Human Endostatin Combined with Chemotherapy for Advanced Gastrointestinal Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Objective: To explore the clinical efficacy and toxic and side effects of recombinant human endostatin (rhendostatin/endostar) combined with chemotherapy in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer. Materials ...
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Clinical Application of Recombinant Human Endostatin in Postoperative Early Complementary Therapy on Patients with Non-small Cell Lung Cancer in Chinese Mainland
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Objective: To explore the clinical application of recombinant human endostatin (Endostar) in the treatmentof patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in Chinese mainland. Materials and Methods: ...
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Assessment of Prognostic Value of “Neutrophil to Lymphocyte Ratio” and “Prognostic Nutritional Index” as a Sytemic Inflammatory Marker in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Systemic inflammatory response was shown to play an important role in development andprogression of many cancer types and different inflammation-based indices were used for determining prognosis.We aimed ...
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Relationships of Colorectal Cancer with Dietary Factors and Public Health Indicators: an Ecological Study
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in Iranian women and fifth in men. Theaims of this study were to investigate the relation of dietary factors and public health indicators to its ...
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Knowledge, Barriers and Attitudes Towards Breast Cancer Mammography Screening in Jordan
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer in Jordan. Current efforts are focused onannual campaigns aimed at increasing awareness about breast cancer and encouraging women to conductmammogram ...
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Lenalidomide in Treating Patients with Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
(West Asia Organization for Cancer Prevention (WAOCP), 2015-09-01)Background: This analysis was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of lenalidomide based regimen intreating patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer. Materials and Methods: Clinical ...
