This study was conducted to describe the uptake of cancer screening by women residing in Uttar Pradesh (UP), the largest state of India. We analyzed NFHS-5 data available in public domain to determine the number of women (aged 30-49 years) participating in cancer sc...
Lung cancer arises in tissues of the lung, usually in the cells lining air passages. The two main types are small-cell lung cancer and non-small-cell lung cancer, according to the shape of cells under a microscope. The most common symptoms are coughing, shortness of breath and chest pains...
Top 10 Cancer Causing Foods to Cut Your Cancer Risk in Half Genetically Modified Foods (GMOs): The rapidly growing industry of genetically modified crops are infiltrating our food supply at an alarming rate. More than 90% of our corn and soy are now genetically modified. This fairly new ...
According to a recent National Cancer Registry Programme (NCRP) report in India, childhood cancers in the 0–14 age group accounted for 4.0% of all cancers.8 The Population Based Cancer Registry in Delhi reported the highest age-adjusted incidence rate (AAR) of 203.1 per million in boys and...
µg plays an exciting role in the carcinogenesis of normal and cancer cells, where most of the cells suffer from an increase in the apoptotic rate [15,16], but other cells even gain stemness features [17]. For a more detailed explanation of the results obtained regarding the effect of ...
Various forms of RNA alterations have been described in cancer, including overexpression2, altered splicing3 and gene fusions4; however, it is difficult to attribute these to underlying genomic changes owing to heterogeneity among patients and tumour types, and the relatively small cohorts of patients...
These were again the leading risk factors in terms of age-standardized DALYs rate in 2019 (Appendix pp 51–53). Table 2. Cancer DALYs attributable to Risk Factors, 1990–2019. Risk FactorsDalys (in thousands), both sexesDalys (in thousands), malesDalys (in thousands), females 19902019...
The boundary of the detected nuclei is refined by merging the outputs of two detectors with a 95% detection rate using a globally optimum active contour algorithm. Overlapped nuclei of tumor cells are separated using an unsupervised Bayesian classification scheme. The distance transform produces a ...
Figure 4. Forest Plot of Overall Case Fatality Rate for Immunonotherapy, Radiotherapy, and Targeted Therapy View LargeDownload ES indicates effect size. Table. Outcome of Patients With or Without Hematologic Cancer in 19 Studies View LargeDownload Supplement. eTable 1. Search Strategy Used for the...
Reportedly, 300 million people worldwide are affected by the consumption of arsenic contaminated groundwater. India prominently figures amongst them and the state of Bihar has shown an upsurge in cases affected by arsenic poisoning. Escalated a