Background: Adjuvant Anthracyclines Chemotherapy (ANTC) and trastuzumab have been documented to prolong survival in patients with breast cancer (BC). However, these drugs are also well known to induce left ventricular systolic dysfunction (LVSD). Multiple studies have shown that...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i330177
A 55-year old, middle-aged man, known for hypertension and dyslipidemia, presented to the OPD with complaints of fever along with a mild dry cough. There was no shortness of breath or chest pain associated with the patient’s complaints. Therefore, as a seemingly obvious diagnosis...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230174
Idriss Ntatou Lemouchele, Suzi Pascale Mbougang, Esther Dina Bell, Cécile Okalla Ebongue, Loick Pradel KOJOM FOKO, Elisée Libert Embolo Enyegue, Rachel De Grâce Tayou Tchuente, Eric Fouelifack Nzeko, Annie Rosalie Ngono Ngane & Martin Luther Koanga Mogtomo·Journal of Cancer and Tumor International·2022
Aims: This study aimed at determining epidemiological, clinical, behavioural and risk factors for breast cancer (BC) among young women living in Cameroon. Study Design: Cross-sectional case-control study. Place and Duration of Study: The study took place at the Oncology departme...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230173
Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) incidence and mortality are associated with age and African descent. African men are more likely to have aggressive disease, present late with complications and die from prostate cancer. Age is also an independent factor for consideration in the...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230171
Soot is the product of incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is a fine black powdery substance also known as Black Carbon that arises from the burning of substances such as oils, woods, chars, tyres, and other hydrocarbon compounds. This processes leads to the release of vari...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230172
Soot is known as unwanted by-products gotten from incomplete burning of materials that contain carbon. Soot is also known as black carbon (BC) or carbon blacks (CBs). It is capable of causing many health issues in both humans and animals. When illegal refining and burning activit...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230170
There has been a lot of short backs from the use of the usual conventional anti-cancer therapy for treating cancer cells. Conventional anti-cancer therapy involves the use of chemical chemotherapeutics and radiation to treat cancer whereas sometimes it may include the use of surg...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130169
Wound healing and cancer evolution are closely related to involve progenitor Stem Cells (PSCs) as the critical common elements. Wound healing requires the proliferation and the Terminal Differentiation (TD) of PSCs. Wound triggers biological and immunological responses. The biolo...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130168
Background: Female breast cancer (BC) has surpassed lung cancer as the most prevalent reason for cancer-related diagnosis in the world. BC has geographical disparities in the intensity of effect of its associated risk factors on patients’ survival. Several models can be employed...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130166
Introduction: The association between solid cancers and sarcoidosis is well-known, however,we shouldn’t quickly link a granulomatous lesion to sarcoidosis in a patient suffering from a solid tumor, hence, a granuloma in the context of a solid cancer presents a diagnostic and a th...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130165
A 53-year-old had complaints of vague abdominal pain for the past few months. The patient had a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and iron deficiency. The pain was aching, mild, intermittent, non-radiating, and generalized. An ultrasound of the abdomen, CT scan and MRI...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130164
Background: Plants have become a household name in the quest for effective and safe cancer chemotherapy in the Pharmaceutical industry. We studied the Brine shrimps lethality, antiproliferative and apoptotic potentials of Gliricidia sepium leaf extract against some selected cance...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430163
Aims: The present study was aimed at preparing stable lyophilized curcumin loaded nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs). The optimized lyophilized curcumin loaded NLCs were characterized and evaluated for various quality control parameters. Methodology: The optimized curcumin load...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430162
Introduction: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors in the gastrointestinal tract, GISTs of the small bowel presenting as an acute peritonitis are rare, which necessitates emergency surgery. Presentation of Case: A 44-year-old women presen...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430161
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the antioxidant properties of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Punica granatum (Pomegranate) seed in testosterone induced benign prostate hyperplastic albino Wistar rats. Study design: This study is an interventional study. Place and Dura...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430160