This chapter describes the current status of cancer incidence and prevalence in India.Mallick, SupriyaNational Cancer Institute-India (NCI-India)Kumar, ChitreshNational Cancer Institute-India (NCI-India)Benson, RonyRCCRath, Goura K.Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Institute-Rotary Cancer Hospital, All India Institute of Medical SciencesNiblock WJ. Cancer in India. Indian Medical Gaze...
Prostate cancer affects the prostate gland which is situated distal to the bladder neck. It is commonly seen in men above the age of 60. Typically, the symptoms are a frequent urge to urinate, painful urination, repeated urinary tract infections (UTI) and occasionally blood in the urine. Surg...
Yet another challenge in India is areca nut chewing along with betel leaves (locally known as pan) and which most times is stuffed with smokeless tobacco. Betel quid usage prevalence has been found to range from 20 to 40% in the Indian population [8]. Sweetened areca nut chewing habit has...
Prevalence of viral (HPV, EBV, HSV) infections in oral submucous fibrosis and oral cancer from IndiaBetel quidoral squamous cell carcinomatobaccoareca nutThere is a high prevalence of human papilloma viruses (HPV) in oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) and the etiologic implication of this finding ...
BMC Infectious Diseases (2024) 24:516 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12879-024-09357-2 BMC Infectious Diseases SYSTEMATIC REVIEW Open Access Prevalence of human papillomavirus in head and neck cancer patients in India: a systematic review and meta-analysis Prakasini Satapathy1,2*, Mahalaqua Nazli...
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4.8 per 100,000 for mortality, respectively; Figure 7B), in part reflecting the higher prevalence of chronic HPV infection also with limited access to screening and vaccination in transitioning countries. The observation of a broad decline in cervical cancer incidence rates in most areas of the ...
In India, the prevalence of HPV16 is highest with 3.6%, 22%, 56.1% and 69.7% in normal, low-grade lesions, high grade lesions and CC, respectively followed by other types [7]. HPV is a double-stranded DNA virus, containing 800 bp non-enveloped circular DNA. Persistence of HPV ...
K. et al. Prevalence of regulatory T cells is increased in peripheral blood and tumor microenvironment of patients with pancreas or breast adenocarcinoma. J. Immunol. 169, 2756–2761 (2002). Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Nakamura, R. et al. Accumulation of regulatory T cells in sentinel...
The high prevalence of the IDH hotspot mutations, their occurrence early in tumorigenesis and the resulting uniform expression of the mutated protein in tumour cells make mutant isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) an appealing therapeutic target. The roles of mutant IDH1 and IDH2 in cancer development and...