Since ancient times, honey has been utilized as a medication, while Trigona sp. is special kind of honey. Breast, colon, and lung cancers are very malignant types cancer need to be treated with caution This investigation intended establish the in vitro toxicity activity eight opposed breast (MCF-7), colon (WiDr), (A549). Cytotoxicity using MTT test technique (3,4,5-dimethylthiazole-2-yl)-2,5-di...

background: breast cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death among the women worldwide. the risk of local and distant recurrence is the highest during the first two years following the initial treatment. very late relapse (after 12 years) is uncommon in breast cancer survivors. methods: herein, we report the characteristics and outcomes of 6 such cases of breast can...

background: improvement in complications of antitumor agents and surgery is important to enhance life quality and survival among patients with colon and colorectal cancer. it has been reported that some dietary components such as glutamine (gln) have beneficial effects on these complications of cancer therapies. however, the results of studies are inconsistent in this area. we performed a revie...

despite a lot of research, the etiology and progression of breast cancer remain incompletely understood. recently, human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) was reported as a risk factor for breast cancer. the aim of this study was to know whether breast cancer could be caused by cytomegalovirus or not? in this experiment seventeen samples of razi/a mice with spontaneous breast cancer were being gathered fr...

background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy in females worldwide. several etiological factors including environmental factors have been recognized for breast cancer. epstein barr virus as a viral etiological factor has been proposed. so far, several studies have investigated the relationship between development of breast cancer and epstein barr virus, but few have been done in iran....

Background: Breast cancer incidence has increased rapidly inKuwait, but there haven’t been any studies investigating the recognized risk factors of breast cancer inKuwait. The aim of the study was to investigate breast cancer risk factors among women inKuwait. Methods: A case-control study was conducted in Kuwait from May 2003 to March 2004 using a questionnaire including socio-demographic data...

A great number of researches over the last years are allocated to know cancer reasons, prevention and treatment strategies. Bacterial infections are one of the promoting factors in cancer development. The present study was carried out to study effects of heat-killed bacteria on cancer cell lines MCF7 and HT-29. To this purpose, four bacterial strains including Salmonella typhi, Sta...

introduction: gail model is one of the most important models for the evaluation of breast cancer risk between us white females. according to genetic diversity, there is a possibility of affecting the efficiency of the gail model in risk assessment of breast cancer among iranian populations. in this study, the gail model efficiency in specifying the risk of breast cancer in iranian population wa...

Anti-helmintic drugs mebendazole and albendazole are commonly used to treat a variety of parasitic infections. They have recently shown some promising results in pre-clinical vitro vivo anti-cancer studies. We compare their efficacy breast colon cancer cell lines as well non-cancerous cells elucidate mechanism action. The were screened for cytotoxicity MDA-MB-231, MCF-7 (breast cancer), HT-29 (...