Aims: To assess tumour suppressing activity and ongoing coagulation among persons living with HIV infection and accessing care in the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. Study Design: Case-control study. Place and Duration of Study: University of Calabar Teaching Ho...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i330111
Objective: Carcinosarcomas (CSs) and leiomyosarcomas (LMSs) are rare uterine cancers with high mortality. This study presents a dual institutional experience from two different university teaching hospitals (Mansoura and Zagazig Universities situated in the Delta of the Nile Rive...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i330110
Aims: To spot the light on metastatic tumors to the breast which represent only 0.5-1.5% of breast malignancies to avoid misdiagnosis as primary breast tumors. Presentation of the Case: 45-year-old female was referred to the Oncology Department of Meet Ghmmr Oncology Center in N...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i330109
Background: Cervical cancer is becoming one of the emerging health burdens for womenhood and India accounts for one-third of the cervical cancer deaths globally. More than 80% of women with cervical cancer are diagnosed at an advanced stage. In this study, we aimed to assess the...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i330108
Background: Prostate-specific antigen density (PSAD) is one of the means of improving PSA sensitivity as a marker of a prostate cancer diagnosis. However, this ability is perceived to be obscured by certain factors such as high body mass index and age in Caucasian and western pop...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i330107
Diana Lorena Nieto-Mosquera, Hugo Ramiro Segura-Puello, Juan Sebastián Segura-Charry, Diana Milena Muñoz-Forero & Andrea Catalina Villamil-Ballesteros·Journal of Cancer and Tumor International·2019
The present study aims to determine the role of immunomodulatory fungi for the treatment of cancer as an alternative way. Mushrooms have been part of human culture for thousands of years, many cultures especially from the East, recognized that the extracts of certain fungi could...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i230106
Introduction: Globally, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women; in 2008 there were an estimated 530,000 new cases and more than 270,000 women die from it [1]. In Ethiopia, cervical cancer is the second most common cancer following breast cancer and the leading...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i230105
Rebecca Peniel Storph, Frank N. Ghartey, Richard K. D. Ephraim, Enoch Mensah, Martin Mornah, Linda Ahenkorah-Fondjo, David L. Simpong, Charlotte Addai, Bright Kobena Segu Domson, Joseph Benjamin Baidoo & Patrick Adu·Journal of Cancer and Tumor International·2019
Background: People with primary invasive breast cancer receive both local (surgery and radiation therapy) and systemic treatment (chemotherapy and hormonal therapy). However, there are substantial short-and long-term side effects from chemotherapy as documented in several studies...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i230104
Background: Childhood cancer is attracting public health attention in Sub-Saharan Africa because of its’ increasing contribution to morbidity and mortality, and the changing pattern in relative frequency and diagnostic challenges in resources poor settings. The objective of the s...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i230103
Background: Solitary thyroid nodules are a common clinical problem. None of sonographic features is sufficient to discard or detect malignancy efficiently. Midkine is a novel heparin-binding growth factor, plays critical roles in carcinogenesis. In this study, we aimed to evaluat...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i230102
Introduction: There was an improvement in therapeutic regimens for advanced colorectal cancer (CRC) in the last few decades. The low dose metronomic palliative chemotherapy in patients with advanced CRC after the failure of standard chemotherapy led to a dramatic increase in effi...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i130101
Introduction: In a tribal population based area in West Bengal, India though carcinoma cervix is the commonest malignancy in female patients, yet apart from that carcinoma breast is also increasing in number in the recent years. Breast cancer accounts for approximately 26.6% of f...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i130100
Background: The main cause of cancer deaths amongst women breast cancer remains a clinical and social challenge, and a serious public health problem. On a worldwide level, it continues to be a devastating disorder.BECN1 is a tumor suppressor gene implicated in the initia...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i130099
Aims: The aims of the current study were to determine the prevalence of epidermal growth factor (EGFR) receptor in patients diagnosed with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) as well as assessing the correlation of overexpression of EGFR with age, gender and tumor grades of...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i130098
Objective: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most frequent histologic type of all thyroid malignancies. The presence of characteristic nuclear changes focally in a thyroid lesion may cause diagnostic dilemma. Immunohistochemistry may be helpful in the diagnosis of PTC yet...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2019/v9i130097