Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP

BACKGROUND: Epithelial ovarian cancer is among the leading causes of death in women and is driven by angiogenesis. Microvascular density (MVD) can be used to evaluate angiogenesis in carcinomas and thus it can be used as a potential biomark…

BACKGROUND: Ovarian carcinoma is one of the most deadly malignancies in the gynecologic field. The cause is not yet known, and the clinical symptoms are not specific. Endometrioid carcinoma and ovarian clear cell carcinoma can originate fro…

Leuprorelin is a synthetic analogue of naturally occurring gonadotropin-releasing hormone. It is currently approved in the United States, Europe and Asia and has indications in advanced prostate cancer, endometriosis, breast cancer and prec…

Objective: To determine the effects of uterine adenomyosis on endometrial cancerrecurrence rates. Methods: This retrospective cohort study reviewed all consecutive patients diagnosed with endometrial cancerwho underwent total hysterectomy-b…

Background: Endometriosis has a significant effect on many aspects of women’s lives, also increasing the risk of ovarian cancer. Although endometriosis is considered as a benign condition, it sometimes behaves like cancer. Methods: All medi…

Objective: To determine any association between the menopausal status and epithelial ovarian cancer coexisting with endometriosis (EOC-E). In addition, the prevalence and possible risk factors were assessed. Methods: Medical records of 172 …

Despite being initially considered a benign disease, it is widely thought nowadays that endometriosis and especially ovarian endometriomas are neoplastic conditions with the potential to become malignant. This review was conducted to summar…

Objective: Endometriosis, one of the most common estrogen dependent gynecological disorders, can present as both benign and malignant disease. The prevalence of tumoral transformation is 0.7-1.6% and the most common tumors are clear cell an…

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the accuracy of diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI), apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) value, and time-intensity curve (TIC) type analysis derived from dynamic contrast-enhanced …

BACKGROUND: There are limited data in the literature related to concomitant genital or extra-genital organ pathologies in patients with borderline ovarian tumors (BOTs). The aim of this study was to evaluate our experience with 183 patients…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the risk factors for endometrial hyperplasia concomitant endometrial polyps in pre- and post-menopausal women. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 203 patients undergoing endometrial sampling before hysterectomy were eval…

The aim of this review article was to evaluate the relationship and the possible etiological mechanisms between endometriosis, leiomyoma (LM) and adenomyosis and gynecological cancers, such as ovarian and endometrial cancer and leiomyosarco…

BACKGROUND: Ovarian cancer is the second most common malignancy in Pakistani women, accounting for 4% of all cancers in the female population. The aim of this study was to determine sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive…

BACKGROUND: To assess the accuracy of ultrasound in differentiating endometrioma from ovarian cancer and to describe pattern recognition for atypical endometriomas mimicking ovarian cancers. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Patients scheduled for ele…

Carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA 19-9) is a glycosphingolipid of the Lewis blood group that for years has been proposed as a useful marker for epithelial type gastrointestinal cancers. It is well known that moderately increased concentrations …

AIM: To provide demographics and pathology of cancer of the uterine corpus in Karachi. METHODOLOGY: Data for 66 incident cases of cancer corpus uteri, ICD-10 category C54-5 registered at the Karachi Cancer Registry, for Karachi South, durin…

This study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical features and survival outcomes of ovarian cancer patients who had associated pelvic endometrioisis. The medical records of 1076 patients with ovarian cancer treated at Chiang Mai University…