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{"title":"Persistent Postmastectomy Pain in Breast Cancer Patients: Incidence, Pain Characteristics and Effects on Quality of Life","authors":"R. Arslan, E. Obuz, Y. Erhan, E. Erhan, H. Aydede, E. Kara","doi":"10.9734/JCTI/2018/44781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/JCTI/2018/44781","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126750372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Histopathologic Patterns of Urological Malignancies in Calabar, South-Southern Nigeria: A Ten-Year Review","authors":"E. Isiwele, I. Bassey, E. Ikpi, G. Enakirerhi, F. Otobo, A. Essiet, P. D. Ekwere","doi":"10.9734/JCTI/2018/43949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/JCTI/2018/43949","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Malignant diseases have become more prominent in Nigeria over the past years with urological malignancies contributing significantly to cancer related morbidity and mortality. Cancers of the prostate, bladder, kidney, testis and penis are documented as the most common group of non-cutaneous cancers. This study was carried out to document the pattern and distribution of urological malignancies seen in a tertiary hospital in Calabar, South-southern Nigeria over a 10-year period. Materials and Methods: This was a retrospective study carried out in the Department of Urology, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Nigeria. Cases of all pathologically proven urological malignancies managed between January 2006 and December 2015 were included. Data were retrieved from patients' case notes, operation registers and histopathology records. The histological slides of all cases were retrieved and reviewed. Patients' demographic data, tumour Original Research Article Isiwele et al.; JCTI, 8(1): 1-10, 2018; Article no.JCTI.43949 2 site, histologic diagnoses as well as pathologic grades of malignancies were extracted and analysed. Results: A total of 617 cases of urological malignancies were included in the study over the 10 years under review, comprising of 598 (96.9%) males and 19 (3.1%) females giving a male: female ratio of 31.5:1. There were 600 adults (97.2%) and 17 children (2.8%). The median age was 43 years with range of 1-100 years. The frequency of urological cancers showed prostate cancer to be the most common urologic cancer as follows: Prostate cancer constituted 564 (91.4%), Kidneys 27 (4.4%), Urinary bladder 9 (1.5%), Testis 8 (1.3%), Scrotum 5 (0.8%), Penis 2 (0.3%) and Urethra 2 (0.3%). The most common histologic type of prostate cancer was adenocarcinoma with Gleason Grade III being the commonest grade. Out of the 17 childhood urological malignancies recorded, 13(76.47%) were kidney malignancies, 3 (17.65%) were testicular malignancies and 1 (5.88%) was bladder malignancy. Conclusion: Prostate cancer is by far the commonest urological malignancy, with renal cancer being a distant second in Calabar, ahead of bladder cancers. Childhood urological malignancies in Calabar are predominantly nephroblastomas. The need for increased effort in creating awareness about prostate cancer and for routine screening is reiterated.","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128482678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Therapeutic Impact of Lymphadenectomy in the Management of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: A Single Institution Experience","authors":"K. A. Kulkarni, T. Premalatha, G. Sumangala, Geeta Acharya, S. Selvam, Vishakha C. Bidkar, J. Crasta, E. Vallikad","doi":"10.9734/jcti/2018/44996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/jcti/2018/44996","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132029419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women’s Awareness and Factors Affecting Utilization of Cervical Cancer Screening Services in the Ejisu-Juaben Municipality of Ghana","authors":"Esther Akua Konadu Prempeh","doi":"10.9734/jcti/2018/43971","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/jcti/2018/43971","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129058430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge of Cervical Cancer and Its Risk Factors, Attitudes and Practices towards Pap Smear Screening among Students in the University of Buea, Cameroon","authors":"G. Halle-Ekane, Derick Nembulefack, G. E. Orock, P. N. Fon, A. Tazinya, P. Tebeu","doi":"10.9734/JCTI/2018/43965","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/JCTI/2018/43965","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Cancer of the cervix is the second most common gynaecological malignancy and the leading cause of cancer mortality among women in Cameroon. Knowledge and attitudes toward cervical cancer screening depend largely on gender and educational level. The objective of Original Research Article Halle-Ekane et al.; JCTI, 7(4): 1-11, 2018; Article no.JCTI.43965 2 this study was to determine the knowledge of cervical cancer and the attitudes and practices towards Pap smear screening among male and female university students. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study that involved 416 students, carried-out from February to May 2017 among students of the University of Buea, Cameroon. Data was collected using a pretested questionnaire and analysed using Epi-Info version 7. Statistical significance was set at Pvalue <0.05. Results: The mean age of the participants was 22.08 (± 4.03) years. Up to 82.2% of participants had heard about cervical cancer. Only 25.2% of participants had “good” knowledge of cervical cancer. There was no statistically significant difference in the overall knowledge between gender (P=0.81); however, there was an association between having “good” knowledge and being a health science student (P<0.001). About two-thirds of the students knew that having multiple sexual partners was a risk factor of cervical cancer, while more than 50%, could not identify early sexual intercourse, smoking, family history, and multiple deliveries as risk factors. Only 4.8% of the female students had had a Pap smear. The low uptake was attributed to barriers: the cost of screening, lack of information on screening programs, fear, and beliefs that pap smear screening is painful. Conclusions: Knowledge of cervical cancer among university students was poor without a gender difference. Uptake of Pap smear screening was very low. We, therefore, recommend more health education and prevention programs targeting male and female students.","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116401138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Primary Gastrointestinal Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Diagnosed after Emergency Surgery","authors":"Murat Akıcı, C. Ozdemir, M. Çilekar, R. Arslan","doi":"10.9734/JCTI/2018/43771","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/JCTI/2018/43771","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132298194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nutritional Intervention in Children Undergoing Chemotherapy for Cancer","authors":"C. Apprey, R. Annan, F. Arthur, Christopher Larbie, A. Akoto","doi":"10.9734/JCTI/2018/43197","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/JCTI/2018/43197","url":null,"abstract":"A thesis submitted to the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in partial fulfilment of the Requirements for the degree of \u0000DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY. 2015","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122169163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Breast Cancer Awareness, Knowledge and Screening Uptake among Female Secondary Schools Teachers in Owerri, Nigeria","authors":"C. Nnebue, U. Umeh, Prince Ekezie, G. Ekeh, Augustine Ekpe, Emmanuel Okodo","doi":"10.9734/jcti/2018/42635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/jcti/2018/42635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126136711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"To Study and Compare the Relationship between Preoperative Serum TSH and Frequency of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer","authors":"S. Hussain, M. Ayub, M. Kumaran, S. Vishnupriya","doi":"10.9734/JCTI/2018/42759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/JCTI/2018/42759","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114168585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Use of Chemoports in a Comprehensive Cancer Care Center, a Retrospective Study","authors":"M. Pattanayak, A. Arora, S. Saini, A. Gaind, U. Baruah, S. Verma, Meenu Gupta","doi":"10.9734/JCTI/2018/42732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9734/JCTI/2018/42732","url":null,"abstract":"Aim of the Study: Treatment protocols that use intravenous cytotoxic agents need long term access to large veins, that can be maintained for a prolonged period in a sterile way. Use of implantable devices for this purpose have become the preferred choice these days, but they have their own set of problem s, starting from difficulties in cannulation to safely maintaining the access for a prolonged period of time in a sterile way. Moreover, the patient population undergoing these treatments are mostly immunosuppressed and prone to systemic infections making the care of any Original Research Article Pattanayak et al.; JCTI, 7(3): 1-8, 2018; Article no.JCTI.42732 2 implanted device more difficult. The present study evaluates the experience of using chemoports in a comprehensive cancer care center. Subjects and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed our experience in handling Chemoports inserted at our own hospital over a period of three years, as regards to difficulties during insertion and during administration of venotoxic agents. All patients who were advised more than 4 cycles of cytotoxic drugs were included and approval of the university research and ethics committee was taken prior to data analysis. Results: Retrospective data of a total of 120 chemoports was evaluated for the study. The most common malignancy was breast cancer, and the commonest chemotherapeutic regimen was Adriamycin/Epirubicin and Cyclophosphamide followed by Taxanes. The preferred site of insertion was right subclavian vein in 52.5% of cases. The average time taken for the procedure ranged from 25 mins to 2 hrs. Procedural difficulties were documented in 48 [40%] insertions, the most common being multiple punctures for venous access. 3 patients developed hematoma during the procedure and, one patient had puncture of carotid artery. Passage of the catheter to the opposite jugular vein was an interesting happening and occurred in 3 patients. None of the patients who had subclavian vessel cannulation had pneumothorax. All the complications were managed conservatively. The median days of catheter life was 265 days. In the follow up period 30 patients [25%] had events related to difficulty of use and port related infection,12 patients had difficulties in canulation of the Chemo port reservoir and 6 Ports could not be used for further chemotherapy and were removed. Infectious complications were seen in 12 ports, the commonest being pocket site infection. We had a policy of recommending removal of the chemoport 6 months after completion of the planned chemotherapy protocol or 2 years after placement of the port, whichever is earlier. At the end of the study period, 47 of the patients had their chemoports removed, 10 patients were lost to follow up and hopefully got the devices removed elsewhere. Conclusion: The present day chemoports are simple to insert, and easy to manage with proper asepsis expected in an immunosupressed patient. However, a dedicated team of trained personnel vi","PeriodicalId":161223,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Cancer and Tumor International","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121847977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}