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Health seeking behavior and its determinants for cervical cancer among women ...
Background Cervical cancer is one of the most easily preventable forms of female cancers if early screening and diagnosis is made. Low awareness level about the disease and risk... -
Association between ATM rs1801516 polymorphism and cancer susceptibility: a m...
Background Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) gene plays a key role in response to DNA lesions and is related to the invasion and metastasis of malignancy. Epidemiological... -
Understanding adjuvant endocrine therapy persistence in breast Cancer survivors
Background: Adjuvant endocrine therapy (AET) significantly decreases the risk of breast cancer recurrence and mortality. Notwithstanding the demonstrated... -
Sidedness and TP53 mutations impact OS in anti-EGFR but not anti-VEGF treated...
Background In metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), the localization of the primary tumour has been shown to be of prognostic as well as predictive relevance. Methods With the... -
A protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled trial of a self-help psycho-ed...
Background Breast cancer (BC) is the most frequent cancer occurring in women across the world. Its mortality rate in low-middle income countries (LMICs) is higher than in... -
MUC1 in lung adenocarcinoma: cross-sectional genetic and serological study
[Background]Mucin 1 (MUC1) contributes to the growth and metastasis of various cancers, including lung cancer, and MUC1 gene length polymorphisms are associated with... -
Assessing the adequacy of lymph node yield for different tumor stages of colo...
Background According to the current official guidelines, at least 12 lymph nodes (LNs) are qualified as an adequate sampling for colon cancer patients. However, patients... -
LncRNA AK023391 promotes tumorigenesis and invasion of gastric cancer through...
Background Patients with gastric cancer commonly have a poor prognosis, owing to its invasiveness and distant metastasis. Recent studies have confirmed the pivotal role of long... -
Predictors of atrial fibrillation in ibrutinib-treated CLL patients: a prospe...
Background Ibrutinib is an oral irreversible inhibitor of Bruton’s tyrosine kinase, indicated for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia. The drug is generally well... -
ADAM-17 is a poor prognostic indicator for patients with hilar cholangiocarci...
Background A-disintegrin and metalloproteinases (ADAMs) are members of a family of multidomain transmembrane and secreted proteins. Specific ADAMs are upregulated in human... -
MiR-194 functions as a tumor suppressor in laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma ...
The emerging roles of microRNAs (miRs) have been deeply investigated in cancer. However, the role of miR-194 in human laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) is still unclear.... -
l-asparaginase-based regimens followed by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell ...
Aggressive nature killer cell leukemia (ANKL) is a mature NK-T cell lymphoma with worse prognosis, but optimal treatment is unclear. Therefore, we analyzed the efficacy of... -
Correction to: PHF8 upregulation contributes to autophagic degradation of E-c...
In the publication of our publication [1], we have noticed there is a wrong label in Fig. 1e, in which the position of “HCC” and “Adjacent” should be transposed. -
NR2F1 stratifies dormant disseminated tumor cells in breast cancer patients
Background The presence of disseminated tumor cells (DTCs) in bone marrow (BM) is an independent prognostic factor in early breast cancer but does not uniformly... -
Feasibility of ipsilateral lower neck sparing irradiation for unilateral or b...
Background To compare the efficacy of ipsilateral lower neck sparing irradiation (ILNSI) versus ipsilateral lower neck prophylactic irradiation (ILNPI) for unilateral or... -
Re-irradiation for recurrent glioma- the NCI experience in tumor control, OAR...
Purpose/objectives Despite mounting evidence for the use of re-irradiation (re-RT) in recurrent high grade glioma, optimal patient selection criteria for re-RT remain unknown.... -
Lymphocyte count or percentage: which can better predict the prognosis of adv...
Background The lymphocytes played an important role in the natural history of cancer. The aim of this study was to explore the prognostic value of lymphocyte count and... -
Deciphering mechanisms of brain metastasis in melanoma - the gist of the matter.
Metastasis to distant organs and particularly the brain still represents the most serious obstacle in melanoma therapies. Melanoma cells acquire a phenotype to metastasize to... -
A prospective phase I dose-escalation trial of stereotactic ablative radiothe...
Background Cytoreductive nephrectomy is thought to improve survival in metastatic renal cell carcinoma (mRCC). As many patients are ineligible for major surgery, we hypothesized... -
A partially supervised physical activity program for adult and adolescent sur...
Background Beyond survival of nowadays >80%, modern childhood cancer treatment strives to preserve long-term health and quality of life. However, the majority...
