The Conference on Asian Trends in Prostate Cancer Hormone Therapy is an annual forum for Asian urologistsnow in its 5th year. The 2006 conference, held in Bali, Indonesia, was attended by 27 leading urologic oncologistsfrom ...

Many investigators have studied the effects of Extremely Low Frequency-Magnetic Fields generated byordinary and domestic power lines, as a risk factor in acute leukaemias of children, but there are limitedinformation ...

Apoptosis and the genes regulating this process have recently become a focus of interest in the study ofcancer development and progression. Both Bcl-2 and Bax are transcriptional targets for the tumor supressorprotein, ...

Our objective was to assess the efficiency of a home-visit invitation aimed to increase uptake of cervical cancerscreening in women between 35 and 60 years of age. From May, 2006, we conducted a quasi-randomized trial ...

The use of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) or PET/CT for voluntary cancer screening of asymptomaticindividuals is becoming common in Japan, though the utility of such screening is still controversial. This studyestimated ...

Objectives: The aim of the research was to review the distributions of age, stage at presentation, andmorphology of patients presenting with carcinoma of the cervix in a predominantly Muslim population. ...

Aberrant crypt foci (ACF) are recognized as preneoplastic lesions for colon cancer, and ACF in rodents arewidely used as an intermediate biomarker to predict tumorigenicity in the colon. However, a lack of correlationsbetween ...

The genetic instability in 54 Thai cervical cancer tissues were analyzed by Arbitrarily Primed PolymeraseChain Reaction (AP-PCR). The band alterations produced from 54 arbitrary primers were compared betweenthe DNA finger ...

Chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection causes liver cancer and disproportionately affects the Asiancommunity in the U.S. In order to advance HBV and liver cancer awareness and prevention, it is important toidentify ...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Genetic alterations prevalent in breastcancer are still being elucidated. In this report, changes in 30 breast cancer tissues, in compariosn with normaltissues ...

An alcoholic extract of Biophytum sensitivum was studied for its immunomodulatory and antitumor activity. Theextract was 100% toxic at a concentration of 0.5 mg/ml to Dalton’s lymphoma ascites (DLA) and Ehrlich ascitescarcinoma ...

The Asian countries with their own particular cultural background and risk factors differ from the Westernworld regarding their disease burden, including the incidences of different cancers. The lack of awareness andeffective ...

Homeopathy is considered as one modality for cancer therapy. However, there are only very few clinicalreports on the activity of the drugs, as well as in experimental animals. Presently we have evaluated the inhibitoryeffects ...

We investigated the associations between lung cancer and the gene polymorphisms of the drug metabolizingenzymes, containing cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1), cytochrome P450 1A2 (CYP1A2), glutathione S-transferaseclass mu ...

An inquiry including questions about socio-demographic and fecundity properties and covering the knowledgeand attitudes of women about Pap smears was applied to 585 women living in Alpu district of Eskisehir, Turkey.Smear ...

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancers in the world and is on the increase. Vaccines are new hopesfor primary prevention of this cancer. In the breast cancer case, HER2 is a focus as a target for vaccine ...

Background: Liver cancer, a significant health problem in Chinese, can be controlled through HBV bloodtesting, vaccination, and community education about HBV. The PRECEDE framework has been very helpful inidentifying ...