Journal of
Cancer Research and Experimental Oncology

  • Abbreviation: J. Cancer Res. Exp. Oncol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 2141-2243
  • DOI: 10.5897/JCREO
  • Start Year: 2009
  • Published Articles: 58

Table of Content: March 2010; 2(1)

March 2009

The effect of using combination chemotherapy in colorectal cancer in India: A single institute survey

The incidence of colorectal cancer in India is on upward swing due to the change in dietary habits. This study was done to evaluate the efficacy of two commonly used regimens. In this study, colorectal cancer patients treated with adjuvant chemotherapy from 1997 - 2001 were included and followed up for a period of five years. The efficacy of the commonly used regimens was compared in terms of five year disease free...

Author(s): S. M. Adiga, K. Meena Kumari, K. L. Bairy,  A. Mohan Babu, B. M. Vadiraja, M. S. Vidyasagar

March 2009

An improved implementation of brain tumor detection using segmentation based on soft computing

Image segmentation is an important and challenging factor in the medical image segmentation. This paper describes segmentation method consisting of two phases. In the first phase, the MRI brain image is acquired from patients database, In that film, artifact and noise are removed after that HSom is applied for image segmentation. The HSom is the extension of the conventional self organizing map used to classify the...

Author(s): T. Logeswari and M. Karnan

March 2010

An unusual presentation of non-Hodgkin lymphoma

A 49 year old woman was admitted to our hospital with symptoms suggestive of breast cancer. The histological study of the left lumpectomy showed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma of the breast. In addition, the radiological assessment of the disease showed multiple organ involvement by the lymphoma. The patient achieved complete response after 3 cycles of chemotherapy but rapidly developed fatal evolution after the...

Author(s): Nabil Ismaili, Ouafae Bentama and Hassan Errihani