Objective: To evaluate the relationship between allium vegetable intake and risk of prostate cancer. Methods:A systematic literature search up to May 2013 was carried out in PubMed, EMBASE, Scopus, ...

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 ...

Background: Breast cancer is among the five most common cancers and ranks first among cancers diagnosedin Iranian women. Screening and treatment of this disease with molecular methods, especially regarding highincidences ...

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

Breast cancer is the most frequent malignancy of women worldwide. It is the leading cause of female cancerrelated disability and mortality. In Saudi Arabia breast cancer ranks first among cancerous diseases in females.In ...

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 ...

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: Cigarette smoking is a well-established risk factor of pancreatic cancer (PC). Although anassociation between nicotine dependence phenotype, namely time to first cigarette (TTFC) after waking, andthe ...

Purposes: Lung cancer is prevalent worldwide and improvements in timely and effective diagnosis areneed. Pentraxin-3 as a novel serum marker for lung cancer (LC) has not been validated in large cohort studies.The aim of ...

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 ...

Objectives: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the most commonly diagnosed cancer for all US populations includingAsian Americans. CRC screening has considerable benefits to prevent CRC and reduce mortality. The purposeof ...

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 ...

Alterations of cyclin D1, one of the main regulators of the cell cycle, are known to be involved in variouscancers. The CCDN1 G870A polymorphism causes production of a truncated variant with a shorter half-life andthus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Objective: The present study employed 5-aza-2’-deoxycytidine (5-Aza-CdR) to treat non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC) cell line A549 to investigate the effects on proliferation and expression of the TFPI-2 gene. ...

Abraxane (nab-paclitaxel) is a member of the group of nano chemotherapeutics. It is approved for metastaticbreast cancer and non small cell lung cancer. Trials for several cancer types including gynecological cancers,head ...

Background: Colposcopy is the gold standard procedure for evaluating cervical cytological abnormalities.Although it is essentially a minimally invasive intervention, referral for colposcopy may cause significant ...

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. ...

Background: Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) are a heterogeneous group of tumors, and approximately 40-50%of patients with STS develop metastatic disease. The median overall survival of those patients was 12 monthsand ...