With almost three years of experience behind the Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention, there is agreat deal which needs to be discussed at the First APOCP General Conference to be held in Nagoya, Central Japan, ...

Deficiency of vitamin B12 and folate is associated with causation of certain precancerous conditions and cancer.The present study was carried out on 56 controls, 167 patients with oral precancerous conditions (OPC) and ...

Modifying effects of chlorogenic acid (CA) on carcinogen-induced large bowel carcinogenesis was examined inrats. A total of 150 male F344 rats, 4 weeks old, were divided into 5 groups. At 6 weeks of age, groups 1-3 were ...

To take effective measures for prevention and achieve the goal of reducing the incidence and mortality rate frombreast cancer, the method of descriptive epidemiology was used to study the situation regarding female breast ...

With the change of nutrient intake after the Second World War, obesity is becoming one of the most serious healthproblems in Japan. From a practical viewpoint for prevention of lifestyle related diseases, we planned an ...

A case-control study was conducted to investigate risk factors for stomach cancer in a rural population in China.Linzhou Cancer Registry was used to identify cases of stomach cancer, aged between 30 and 75 years, ...

Diet is a multidimensional variable, with diversity and composition as two important factors. It has been shown in one study that consumption of foods from a limited number of food groups reduces diversity and results in ...

The smoking habit is influenced by culture, psychological traits and physical factors. Recent studies on genetic polymorphisms have demonstrated that functional polymorphisms pertaining to neurotransmitters may affect ...

Incidence rates of colorectal cancer are relatively low in Asian populations, in which soy foods are commonlyconsumed. Soybeans and soy foods are an almost exclusive source of isoflavone intake. In in vitro studies, ...

Death certificates are an important source of information for cancer registries that help to improve completenessof case finding. In many countries where routine mortality data are considered of poor quality, this source ...

The challenge of population based cancer registration in developing countries is enormous. In India, the firstPopulation Based Cancer Registry named “Bombay Cancer Registry” was established by the Indian Cancer Societyin ...

For almost all of the sites of most common cancers, particularly the lung, colo-rectum and cervix, relatively inexpensiveand reliable tests have been available for some time. Advances in imaging techniques now allow ...