Background: Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is a grade IV brain tumour with high recurrence rate despite maximum treatment including surgical resection, concurrent chemo-radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy. In recurrent tumours, there is no standard treatment available. Patients...
Gall bladder cancer carries a dismal prognosis especially in advanced cases. Common sites of metastases include liver, lung and unusual sites have also been reported like orbit, cutaneous, adrenal, kidney, breast and thyroid. 66 years female diagnosed case of metastatic carcinoma...
Aims: Development of a JAK2 Allelic burden estimation kit using Taqman probes and determine trend in shifting of JAK2 V617F allelic burden in and its use in analysis of patients with essential thrombocythemia (ET) and polycythemia vera (PV) to predict thrombotic complications. Me...
Aims: The study sort to determine factors influencing the uptake of cervical cancer screening services among rural women aged 18-69 years in Webuye East Sub-County, Kenya. Study Design: We conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study design. Place and Duration of Study: Webuye E...
Background: Undergraduate students are at a developmental period in life in which several health-related behaviours begin to form. Poor nutrition and certain lifestyle habits are the resultant effects of westernization and they are factors that contribute to the rising burden of...
Melanoma of the ciliary body is extremely rare. It is rarely diagnosed because of its location and the rarity of its associated symptoms. We report the case of a 35-year-old patient who consults for a decrease in visual acuity in whom ophthalmological examination after pupillary...
Objective: This study aims to identify whether the University Hospital of Lewisham is managing patients according to the published guidelines and to create local guidelines for the identification and management of squamous cell carcinomas. Design: This was a retrospective cross-s...
Introduction and Aims: Recently HPV-16 and 18 have been found in the oral cavity and have been significantly linked as causative agents of oral cancer. Research has also shown the effects of HPV on breast cancer cells. More recently, HPV-16 and 18 have been found in normal brea...
Chromophobic renal cell carcinoma (CRCC) is a rare subtype of renal cell carcinoma, accounting for only 5.9% of epithelial kidney tumors. This study reports the findings studied in chromophobic renal cell carcinoma case with sarcomatoid differentiation in a 66-year-old patient ad...
Blood Cancer-in the shape of carcinogenesis, is worldwide recognized, as a recent time catastrophe. Its unique capability of sustaining its dormancy, vulnerabilities, of drug screening methodologies, and most importantly therapeutic resistance of tumour affected stem cells(due to...