Background: The purpose of this study was to assess the predictive effect of preoperative CEA and CA 19-9levels on the prognosis of colorectal and gastric cancer patients. Materials and Methods: CEA and ...

Background: The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical and dosimetric factors associated withacute esophagitis (AE) in lung cancer patients treated with conformal radiotherapy (RT) in Turkey. Materialsand ...

Background: Pediatric lymphadenopathy is a challenging medical situation for the child patient, the parents,and the physician. Although the bulk of masses will be benign the fear of malignancy is omnipresent. ...

Objective: We aimed to define clinicopathologic risk factors associated with regional recurrence (RR) andthus the effectiveness of postoperative radiotherapy (PORT) for neck control for head and neck squamous ...

Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a tumor of biliary ducts, which has a high mortality rate and dismal prognosis.Constitutively activation of the transcription factor nuclear factor kappa-B (NF-κB) has been previouslydemonstrated ...

Links between cancer and metabolism have been suggested for a long time but compelling evidence forthis hypothesis came from the recent molecular characterization of the LKB1/AMPK signaling pathway as atumor suppressor ...

Objectives: Understanding the situation of cancer awareness which doctors give to patients might lead toprognostic prediction in cases of of colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods: Subsets of 10,779 CRC ...

Background: In this meta-analysis we review evidence suggesting that exposure to cadmium is a cause ofbreast cancer. Materials and Methods: We conducted Medline/PubMed and Scopus searches using selectedMeSH ...

We conducted an exploratory investigation of whether variation in six common SNPs of xerodermapigmentosum complementation group F (XPF) is associated with risk of glioma in a Chinese population. Sixsingle nucleotide ...

Introduction: The influence of season at diagnosis on cancer survival has been an intriguing issue for manyyears. Most studies have shown a possible correlation in between the seasonality and some cancer type ...

Background: Parafibromin is a protein encoded by the HRPT2 (hyperparathyroidism 2) oncosuppressorgene and its down-regulated expression is involved in pathogenesis of parathyroid, breast, gastric and colorectalcarcinomas. ...

MicroRNA-16 (miR-16) has been demonstrated to regulate proliferation and apoptosis in many types ofcancers, but its biological function in bladder cancer remains unknown. Here, we found expression of miR-16 tobe downregulated ...

Background: To compare response evaluation criteria in solid tumours (RECIST) and volumetric evaluation(VE) for colorectal cancer with liver-limited metastasis. Patients and Methods: VE of liver metastases ...

Background: Chronic inflammation is considered as an important factor in the pathogenesis of lung cancer. Thepresence of inflammatory cells and higher levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines in the tumor microenvironmentand ...

Background: Evaluation of Human papilloma virus (HPV) and its association with promoter methylationof candidate genes, p53 and Aurora A in esophageal cancer. Materials and Methods: One hundred ...

Oxidative stress induces apoptosis in many cellular systems including glioblastoma cells, with caspase-8activation was regarded as a major contribution to H2O2-induced cell death. This study focused on the roleof the ...

Objective: To investigate discriminating protein patterns and potential biomarkers in serum samples betweenpre/postoperative pancreatic cancer patients and healthy controls. Methods: 23 serum samples ...

Cancer vaccine development is in the process of becoming reality in future, due to successful phase II/IIIclinical trials. However, there are still problems due to the specificity of tumor antigens and weakness of ...

Inflammation is potential risk factor of various human malignancies. Inflammatory bowel syndromes suchas ulcerative colitis are well known as risk factors for colon cancer. Here, we examined enhancing effects ofdextran ...