Background: This retrospective study was aimed to investigate the efficacy of prophylactic agents inhepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients receiving TACE and compare the difference between lamivudine andentecavir. ...

Background: The aim of this study is to examine the association of urinary cesium with breast cancer risk.Materials and Methods: We collected survey data and urine specimens from 240 women with incident ...

Objectives: To compare the metabolic indices, lipid profile, androgens, and prostate specific antigen betweenprostate cancer and BPH and between grades of prostate cancer in a cross-sectional study. Materials ...

Background: Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is a malignant gastrointestinal cancer with significant morbidity andmortality. Despite severe side effects of chemotherapy, the use of immunotherapy combined with chemotherapy ...

Large scale secular registry or surveillance systems have been accumulating vast data that allow mathematicalmodeling of cancer incidence and mortality rates. Most contemporary models in this regard use time series andAPC ...

Background: This study was planned in an attempt to develop scales for the assessment of fatigue in pediatriconcology patients aged 13-18 and also for their parents. Materials and Methods: In collecting ...

Background: Breast cancer is a serious health problem. Early detection is crucial for optimal treatment andreducing mortality. Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate health beliefs concerning ...

The objectives of this study were to examine serum periplakin expression in patients with urothelial carcinomaof the urinary bladder and in normal controls, and to examine relationships with clinicopathological findings.Detection ...

Background: Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is the most common chronic infectious agent in the stomach.Most importantly, it may lead to atrophy, metaplasia and cancer. The aim of this study was to investigate ...

Background: Colorectal cancer is currently the third most common cancer in Indonesia, yet colonoscopy - themost accepted mode of screening to date - is not done routinely and national data are still lacking. ...

Background: Transthoracic fine needle aspiration (FNA) is one of several methods for establishing tissuediagnosis of lung lesions. Other tissue or cell sources for diagnosis include sputum, endobronchial biopsy, ...

Background: Breast cancer is a fatal disease and the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women with anincreasing pattern worldwide. The burden is mostly attributed to metastatic cancers that occur in one-third ...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of tobacco use, beliefs and risk awareness andpsychosocial correlates of tobacco use among university students in 24 low, middle and emerging economycountries. Using ...

Purpose: To compare tumor size by mammography and sonography and align with pathological results inprimary breast cancer cases. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 95 primary breast cancerpatients ...

Background: Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) in human peripheral blood lymphocytes is one of the mostextensively studied biomarkers employed to evaluate genetic damage subsequent to pesticide exposure. Obje ...

Fisetin is an effective compound extracted from lacquer which has been used in the treatment of variousdiseases. Preliminary data indicate that it also exerts specific anti-cancer effects. However, the manner in whichfisetin ...

Background: Associations between the 8473T>C polymorphism (rs5275) in the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2)gene and breast cancer (BC) risk are still inconclusive and ambiguous. The aim of this meta-analysis was tocomprehensively ...

Background: This analysis was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of cisplatin based chemotherapyfor treating patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. Methods: Clinical studies evaluating ...

Background: This systemic analysis was conducted to evaluate the efficacy and safety of an ifosfamidecontainingregimen in treating patients with osteosarcoma. Methods: Clinical studies evaluating the ...

Background: The population of Songkhla, a province in Southern Thailand, can be divided into apredominantly Muslim subpopulation (PMSP, approximately 70% Muslim) and a predominantly Buddhistsubpopulation (PBSP, ...