Background: Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is a clonal hemopoietic stem cell myeloproliferative neoplasmcharacterized by persistent thrombocytosis along with megakaryocytic hyperplasia. In the last decade followingthe ...

Gastric cancer (GC) is the fifth most common cancer in the world, with a wide variation in incidence ratesacross different geographical areas. In Iran GC is the most common cancer in males and it is reported to bethe third ...

Background: Leukemia is a common cancer among children and adolescents. Wilms’ tumor gene (WT1)is highly expressed in patients with acute leukemia. It is found as a tumor associated antigen (TAA) in varioustypes of ...

Background: The aim of the meta-analysis was to derive a more precise assessment of the association betweenp16 promoter methylation and thyroid cancer risk. Materials and Methods: The PubMed, Web of ...

Background: Awareness and attitudes of nurses regarding end of life care are important factors in providinghospice care. In an extensive literature review, we found no related articles investigating Iranian nurses ...

Background: The Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is an important regulator of cellular functions suchas proliferation, survival and cell adhesion. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is associated with tumor initiation andprogression; ...

Background: Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a marker which has been investigated in many cancers but datafor head and neck lesions are limited. We aimed to study the MPV levels in head and neck cancers as a diagnosticmarker. ...

Caveolin-1 is a 22-kD trans-membrane protein enriched in particular plasma membrane invaginations knownas caveolae. Cav-1 expression is often dysregulated in human breast cancers, being commonly upregulated incancer cells ...

idence. Of all cancer types, cervical cancer is reported to be the fourth most common cancer in women, and theseventh overall, with an estimated 528,000 new cases worldwide in 2012. It features a long preclinical phase ...

Background: Early detection of various kinds of cancers nowadays is needed including colorectal cancerdue to the highly significant effects in improving cancer treatment. The aim of this study was to evaluate ...

A high prevalence of Opisthorchis viverrini infection is usually found in wetland geographical areas ofThailand where people have traditional behavior of eating uncooked freshwater fish dishes which results incholangiocarcinoma ...

Background: Since seventeen employees of an offset printing company in Osaka, Japan developedcholangiocarcinoma it has become recognized as an occupational cancer. This study investigated the differencesof clinical ...

This study was conducted to 1206 women who had cervical cancer screening at Chonburi Cancer Hospital.The spilt-sample study aimed to compare the efficacy of abnormal cervical cells detection between liquid-basedcytology ...

Purpose: To determine the utility of secondary circulating prostate cells for predicting early biochemicalfailure after radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer and compare the results with the Walz nomagram.Materials and ...

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. One way to decrease the burden ofthis cancer is early detection through mammography. This study compared the effectiveness of two differenteducational ...

Background: Concurrent chemoradiation with three weekly high dose cisplatin is the non-surgical standard ofcare for the treatment of locally advanced head and neck cancers. Although this treatment regime is ...

Background: To identify the optimal cost effective strategy for the management of women having ASC-USwho attended at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital (KMCH). Design: An Economical Analysis based ona retrospective ...

Background: Tobacco smoking is a major cause of preventable disease and death worldwide. Kreteks areclove-flavored cigarettes made from a combination of tobacco and ground-clove mixed with a sauce, smokedwidely in ...

Background: Chromosomal aberrations identified in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have an importantrole in disease diagnosis, prognosis and management. Information on karyotype and associated clinical parametersare ...