Nyasha Chin'ombe, Senyefia Bosson-Amedenu, Anthony Joe Turkson, Christiana Cynthia Nyarko, Ezekiel Nii Noye Nortey, Lilia Ghorbal & Noureddine Ouerfelli·Asian Oncology Research Journal·2026
Zimbabwe, a landlocked, lower-middle-income country in Southern Africa, faces a significant cancer burden. The present study aims to provide a quantitative analysis of cancer epidemiology in Zimbabwe for 2020 using data from the Global Cancer Observatory (GCO). Focusing on the 10...
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Research Article10.9734/aorj/2026/v9i1156
Cutaneous metastasis from gastric adenocarcinoma is uncommon and usually indicates advanced disease. Nasal involvement is particularly unusual and may clinically mimic benign, inflammatory, infectious, or primary cutaneous lesions. This case report describes a 56-year-old man wit...
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Background: Perioperative anaesthetic technique has been proposed as a modifiable determinant of long-term cancer outcomes because propofol and volatile anaesthetics have different immunological and tumour-biological effects. Earlier clinical evidence was dominated by retrospecti...
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Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technologies have been described as precision instruments capable of countering the evolutionary adaptability that underlies treatment failure in cancer. The evidence supporting that description is uneven. This cr...
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Abnormal extracellular matrix (ECM) stiffening emerges chiefly from enhanced matrix deposition and remodelling by cancer cells and cancer-associated fibroblasts. This biomechanical alteration activates mechanosensitive pathways, principally through integrin-mediated adhesion comp...
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Background: Metastatic rectal carcinoma requires coordinated multimodal management, with treatment decisions informed by disease extent, clinical status, pathology, imaging, and molecular findings. Case Presentation: A 61-year-old woman presented in November 2022 with progressive...
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Aims: To highlight the risk of irreversible blindness from delayed recognition of compressive optic neuropathy caused by a sphenoid wing meningioma and to emphasise that radiological tumour control does not necessarily imply visual recovery once optic atrophy is established. Pres...
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Background: Oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) is a chronic fibrotic oral potentially malignant disorder strongly associated with areca-nut exposure. Objective: To describe the demographic profile, principal recorded habits, chief complaints, associated oral findings, and documented...
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Background: Breast cancer remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among women, with a substantial burden in resource-limited settings where access to advanced diagnostic facilities may be constrained. Although p27 and p53 are important tumour suppressor proteins and lact...
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Carotid body tumours (CBTs) are rare, slow-growing neuroendocrine neoplasms arising at the carotid bifurcation, and bilateral disease is uncommon. This case report describes the use of definitive radiotherapy for bilateral Shamblin type II CBTs in a 60-year-old man presenting wit...
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