Cancer has become the leading cause of death in many Asian countries. There is an
increasing trend in breast, prostate and colon cancers, which are considered as typical of …

Abstract China, Mongolia, Korea and Japan constitute North-East Asia. For reasons of
largely shared ethnicity and culture, with various degress of mixed Chinese and Altaic …

Background Incidence of breast cancer is rising in Asian countries, and breast cancer is the
most common cancer among Asian women. However, there are few recent descriptive …

The incidence of breast cancer in Korea has been increasing for the last two decades (1983–
2005), and now, breast cancer is ranked the leading cause of cancer in Korean women …

Abstract Sirtuins (SIRTs), NAD+-dependent class III histone deacetylases (HDACs), play an
important role in the regulation of cell division, survival and senescence. Although a number …

Background Most of the genetic variants identified from genome-wide association studies of
breast cancer have not been validated in Asian women. No risk assessment model that …

Hypothesis Breast cancer has become the most common cancer in Korean women in recent
years, with continuously increased incidence rates attributed to westernized lifestyles …

High-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) has been suggested to be associated with
breast cancer. However, the roles of HDL-C and hypertriglyceridemia on breast cancer still …

Acrylamide, a potential food carcinogen in humans, is biotransformed to the epoxide
glycidamide in vivo. Both acrylamide and glycidamide are conjugated with glutathione …

We conducted a hospital-based case-control study to evaluate the association between the
XbaI and PvuII restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) in intron 1 of the estrogen …