The biological, cultural, behavioral and sociodemographic differences across populations modulate breast cancer profile among races or ethnics. Following this, we aimed to identify differences in breast cancer epidemiology, histopathology, and clinical presentation from representatives of central Europe (Slovakia) and Middle-East countries (Turkey) to point on ethnic disparities in cancer biolo...

BACKGROUND Solving the dilemma of the organ shortage in Malaysia requires educating Malaysians about organ donation and transplantation. This paper aims at exploring the average Malaysian households ' preferred channels of campaigns and the preferred campaigners in a family setting, targeting at the dialysis family members. METHODS We analyzed the responses of 350 respondents regarding organ ...

BACKGROUND The present study compared the differences between survivals of patients with colorectal cancer according to their ethnicity adjusted for other predictors of survival. METHODS In this prospective cohort study patients were followed up from definite diagnosis of colorectal cancer to death. Totally, 2431 person-year follow-ups were undertaken for 1127 colorectal cancer patients once ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a chronic inflammation of the digestive tract which consists ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The previously recognized as Western countries but later it spreads all over world across every ethnicity. manifestations vary from intestinal to extra-intestinal manifestations. There are two risk factors related incidence IBD: Internal environmental factors....

Background: The Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) is the most polymorphic region in human genome. Moreover, HLA haplotype frequencies are largely used in transplantation, the treatment of autoimmune diseases, and population-based studies. The present study aimed to determine HLA-A, -B, -DR alleles and haplotype frequencies in 88 unrelated donors of Iranian Gilak ethnic group, by Polymerase Chain Re...

historical role of azerbaijan in developing of intellectual thought and revolutionary ideas before the constitutional revolution of iran (1905-1906) is certain. resistance of the people of tabriz, in the blockade of tabriz accompanied with the concrete of tehran by constitutionalists, which were from turk and shomali ethnics lead by bakhtiari lurs. thinking the constitutional revolution, this q...

BACKGROUND There are few studies analyzed concurrently the prevalence and genotypes of Helicobacter pylori infection with the ancestor origins from different ethnics, especially with including minority groups. We recruited a total of 289 patients in MaeSot, Thailand (154 Thai, 14 Thai-Chinese, 29 Karen and 92 Hmong ethnics). The virulence genes and genealogy of the strains were determined by PC...