The liver is the most common site of metastasis in patients with colorectal cancer due to its anatomical situation regarding its portal circulation. About 14 to 18% of patients with colorectal cancer present metastasis at the first medical consultation, and 10 to 25% at the time of the resection of the primary colorectal cancer. The incidence is higher (35%) when a computed tomography (CT) scan...

Baicalin is a flavonoid glycoside extracted from a kind of traditional Chinese drug, Scutellaria baicalensis, and possesses multiple pharmacological activities. The present study was designed to investigate the effects and mechanisms of baicalin against hepatic cancer cell growth and survival. We found that baicalin inhibited the viability and proliferation of two widely used hepatic cancer cel...

Aim . Assessment of the clinical impact previous hepatitis B infection (PHB). Key points PHB is characterized by presence viral DNA in organism (including intrahepatic cccDNA and integrated DNA). Possible virus persistence patient's hepatocytes potentiates agent transmission risk via haemotransfusion, organ transplantation haemodialysis. Occult HBV individuals can reactivate at background immun...

Aim: In this study, we aimed to compare brown adipose tissue (BAT) activity on 18F-Flourodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography (PET)/Computed Tomography(CT) in patients with and without active cancer. 
 Material Methods: Results of the who underwent 18F-FDG PET/CT between January 2014 February 2018 Nuclear Medicine Department were evaluated retrospectively. Age, gender, body mass index...

High recurrence of colon cancer liver metastasis is observed in patients after hepatic surgery, and the cause is believed to be mostly due to the growth of residual microscopic metastatic lesions within the residual liver. Therefore, triggering the progression of occult metastatic foci may be a novel strategy for improving survival from colon cancer liver metastases. In the present study, we id...

Hepatic cancer is one of the important malignant tumors in digestive system. MicroRNAs regulate cell growth and other cell behaviors through signaling pathway. This study investigated the role of microRNA-497 on LM3 cell viability, proliferation, and apoptosis. MicroRNA-497 and scramble microRNA (miRNA) were synthetized and transfected to hepatic cancer cell line LM3 using lipofectamine. LM3 ce...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the appropriateness of follow-up with only non-enhanced CT (NECT) in patients with gastrointestinal cancer. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This retrospective study included 323 patients with colorectal and gastric cancer who underwent two consecutive CT examinations (CT1 and CT2), including non-contrast and portal venous phase CT images, with an interval of 1 year. Patients were d...

Introduction: Fusobacterium nucleatum (F. nucleatum) is a non-spore forming, anaerobic, gram-negative bacteria usually associated with periodontal disease and rarely reported in association with pyogenic liver abscess. Although common symptoms of colonic cancer are well known, unusual infections may herald presence of such a cancer. Streptococcus bovis bacteraemia is an accepted diagnostic mark...

THERE is a high incidence of primary hepatic cancer in the adult population in many parts of Africa and Asia. It is the most common malignancy among Malay males, the second most common cancer in Indian males and the third most common cancer among Chinese males in . Singapore (Shanmugaratnam, 1973). Despite the high incidence of liver cancer in the adult population in these regions, there is a p...

We report a case of safe and successful yttrium-90 resin microsphere radioembolization in a patient with a long history of multiple recurrent colon cancer hepatic metastases progressing after hepatic resections, hepatic arterial chemotherapy, and multiple regimens of systemic chemotherapy. One month prior to radioembolization, a biliary stent was placed above the level of the ampulla to relieve...