Oncology reviews

Preoperative staging in endometrial cancer has recently been implied as an important factor in accurately selecting low-risk cases, ultimately avoiding unnecessary lymph node debulking. Transvaginal ultrasound seems promising in clinical st…

In the current era, environmental factors are well established as major causative agents for all cancers especially lung and breast cancer. We sought to review the current available literature on the topic pertaining to gynaecologic cancers…

Survivin belongs to the inhibitor of apoptosis protein (IAP) family and is encoded by the baculoviral inhibitor of apoptosis repeat-containing, or BIRC5, gene. It is preferentially expressed in cancers with functional complexity in cell sig…

BACH1 encodes for a protein that belongs to RecQ DEAH helicase family and interacts with the BRCT repeats of BRCA1. The N-terminus of BACH1 functions in DNA metabolism as DNA-dependent ATPase and helicase. The C-terminus consists of BRCT do…