Background: Prostate cancer (PCa) incidence and mortality are associated with age and African descent. African men are more likely to have aggressive disease, present late with complications and die from prostate cancer. Age is also an independent factor for consideration in the...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230171
Soot is the product of incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons. It is a fine black powdery substance also known as Black Carbon that arises from the burning of substances such as oils, woods, chars, tyres, and other hydrocarbon compounds. This processes leads to the release of vari...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230172
Soot is known as unwanted by-products gotten from incomplete burning of materials that contain carbon. Soot is also known as black carbon (BC) or carbon blacks (CBs). It is capable of causing many health issues in both humans and animals. When illegal refining and burning activit...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i230170
There has been a lot of short backs from the use of the usual conventional anti-cancer therapy for treating cancer cells. Conventional anti-cancer therapy involves the use of chemical chemotherapeutics and radiation to treat cancer whereas sometimes it may include the use of surg...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130169
Wound healing and cancer evolution are closely related to involve progenitor Stem Cells (PSCs) as the critical common elements. Wound healing requires the proliferation and the Terminal Differentiation (TD) of PSCs. Wound triggers biological and immunological responses. The biolo...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130168
Background: Female breast cancer (BC) has surpassed lung cancer as the most prevalent reason for cancer-related diagnosis in the world. BC has geographical disparities in the intensity of effect of its associated risk factors on patients’ survival. Several models can be employed...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130166
Introduction: The association between solid cancers and sarcoidosis is well-known, however,we shouldn’t quickly link a granulomatous lesion to sarcoidosis in a patient suffering from a solid tumor, hence, a granuloma in the context of a solid cancer presents a diagnostic and a th...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130165
A 53-year-old had complaints of vague abdominal pain for the past few months. The patient had a history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and iron deficiency. The pain was aching, mild, intermittent, non-radiating, and generalized. An ultrasound of the abdomen, CT scan and MRI...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2022/v12i130164
Background: Plants have become a household name in the quest for effective and safe cancer chemotherapy in the Pharmaceutical industry. We studied the Brine shrimps lethality, antiproliferative and apoptotic potentials of Gliricidia sepium leaf extract against some selected cance...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430163
Aims: The present study was aimed at preparing stable lyophilized curcumin loaded nanostructured lipid carriers (NLCs). The optimized lyophilized curcumin loaded NLCs were characterized and evaluated for various quality control parameters. Methodology: The optimized curcumin load...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430162
Introduction: Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are the most common mesenchymal tumors in the gastrointestinal tract, GISTs of the small bowel presenting as an acute peritonitis are rare, which necessitates emergency surgery. Presentation of Case: A 44-year-old women presen...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430161
Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the antioxidant properties of ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Punica granatum (Pomegranate) seed in testosterone induced benign prostate hyperplastic albino Wistar rats. Study design: This study is an interventional study. Place and Dura...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430160
Backgroud: The toxicity of benzene leading to leukemia induction has been well documented in animal model. Aloe vera is a succulent perennial evergreen flowering plant used traditionally in the treatment of jaundice and was found to have potent cytotoxic effect against HL60 human...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430159
Background: Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is a rare neuro-endocrine tumor that arises from the C-cells of the thyroid. About 20- 25 % of MTC cases may be associated with hereditary syndromes like MEN 2A, MEN 2B and Familial MTC. The survival rate is related mainly to the age...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430158
Angel Justiz Vaillant, Lyvan Gardiner, Maryam Mohammed, Matthew Surajbally, Luke Maharaj, Luke Ramsingh, Makeisha Simon, Mark Seegobin, Masud Niles & Sehlule Vuma·Journal of Cancer and Tumor International·2021
In this study, we described the most critical risk factors for different malignancies including breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal carcinoma among others, with an emphasis on modifiable risk factors. We revised the literature review about risk factors involved in the genesis...
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Research Article10.9734/jcti/2021/v11i430157