Browsing Faculty of Health Sciences (FHS) by Subject "cancer"

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    • Novel thymidylate synthase enhancer region alleles in African populations 

      McLeod Howard L.; Ofori-Adjei David.; Indalo Anne; Githang'a Jessie N.; Ameyaw Margaret M.; Marsh Sharon. (Department of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics, 2000-12)
      Thymidylate synthase (TS) regulates the production of DNA synthesis precursors and is an important target of cancer chemotherapy. A polymorphic tandem repeat sequence in the enhancer region of the TS promoter was previously ...

    • Overview of prostate cancer in indigenous black Africans and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora 1935-2007 

      Magoha, G A (Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi., 2007-09)
      Objective: To carry out an overview of prostate cancer in indigenous back Africans in sub-Saharan Africa and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora. Data source: Review of all published literature on prostate cancer on ...

    • Testicular Cancer in Nigerians 

      Magoha, G A (1995)
      This is a report of prospective study of eight patients with testicular tumours seen at the Urology Unit of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital over a five-year period (1979-1983). The mean age was 32.7 years. Four ...