To explore a possible new treatment for human ovarian cancer, we studied the effects of sodium valproateon the growth of the HO8910 human cell line. HO8910 cells were cultured in vitro and treated with differentconcentrations ...

Background: This study was performed to analyze the prognostic implications of pretreatment or preoperativethrombocytosis in women with gynecologic malignancies. Material and Methods: We surveyed 2 ...

Background: Functional single nucleotide polymorphisms of x-ray repair cross-complementing protein1 (XRCC1) have been suspected to contribute to uterine cervical cancer risk for a long time; however, mostprevious ...

Objective: To identify whether saliva supernatant miR-21 can serve as a novel potential biomarker in patientswith esophageal cancer (EC). Methods: 32 patients with EC and 16 healthy controls were ...

Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in females in the World with around 500,000 new casesoccurring annually, but the first in the developing countries with a high mortality if not diagnosed early.Papanicolau ...

The term endocrine disruptors is used to describe a variety of natural and manmade substances that have thecapacity to potentially interfere with and modify the normal physiology of endocrine system either by mimicking,blocking ...

Background: The term ‘hardcore’ has been applied to use of smoking tobacco and generally referred to as the inability or unwillingness of regular smokers to quit. The component constructs of hardcore except nicotine ...

Cancer is now the main cause of increasing mortality throughout the world. Minor alterations in the cell cycle which are inherited and not removed by apoptosis are important rsik factors. Blood cancers are asmong the types ...

Background: There is little information on longitudinal patterns of participation in faecal occult blood test (FOBT) based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening or on demographic or behavioural factors associated with ...

Although much health services research has been conducted using national health insurance claimsdata in Korea, the validity of this method has not been ascertained. The objective of this study was tovalidate the use of ...

Background: Oral cancer has become one of the most prevalent cancers worldwide and human Papillomavirusis one of the risk factors for developing oral cancer. For this study HPV18 was chosen as it is one of the high ...

Background: Clinical trials on cancer subjects have one of the highest dropout rates. Barriers to recruitmentrange from patient-related, through institutional-related to staff-related factors. This paper highlights ...

A cross-sectional study was conducted among nursing staff of a missionary hospital of Delhi in June 2009. All the nurses were invited to participate in the training programme on breast cancer and techniques of breast ...

Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-3 (IGFBP3) has been identified as a putative tumor suppressorwith multifunctional roles in the IGF axis. Recently, there have been a growing body of studies investigating therelation ...

Background: To determine the prevalence of mammalian target of rapamycin phosphorylation (p-mTOR)and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and any correlation with clinical characteristics and prognosisin ovarian ...

This study was designed to identify beliefs about physical activity in cancer patients. Semi- structured interviews were conducted with 20 patients under treatment, who were invited to identify perceived barriers for not ...

Objective: To investigate the relationship between plasma EBV-DNA concentration and clinicopathologicfeatures of Hodgkin’s lymphoma cases. Methods: At first, the positive rate of plasma EBV-DNA was ...

A number of studies have been conducted to explore the association of XRCC1 polymorphisms with thyroidcancer risk, but the results have been inconsistent. Thus we performed the present meta-analysis to clarify thisissue ...

Measurement of quality of life among prostate cancer patients helps the health care providers to understand the impact of the disease in the patients’ own perspective. The main aim of this study is to measure the quality ...

Regional cancer epidemiology is an important basis for determining the priorities for cancer control in different countries worldwide. There is no reliable information about the pattern of head and neck cancer in western ...