Assessment of Knowledge, Practices, and Attitudes Toward Prostate Cancer and Its Screening Among Men Aged 40 Years and Older in the United Arab Emirates: A Cross-Sectional Study.

Introduction:  Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men globally and the fifth greatest cause of cancer-related mortality. In the United Arab Emirates (UAE), prostate cancer has been on the rise due to population aging. However, knowledge deficits and screening barriers do exist because of cultural, social, and psychological factors.

Repeated resection of colorectal cancer pulmonary oligometastases: pooled analysis and prognostic assessment.

Background: Repeated resection of colorectal cancer pulmonary metastasis is associated with long-term survival. Nevertheless, very limited data addressing the best candidates for repeated pulmonary resection is available.

Patients And Methods: We searched the PubMed database for retrospective studies evaluating lung metastasectomy for metastatic colorectal cancer (CRC).

High-Dose Therapy and Autologous Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Transplantation for Recurrent or Refractory Hodgkin's Lymphoma: Analysis of King Hussein Cancer Center Results and Prognostic Variables.

Purpose. to evaluate the outcome of patients with Hodgkin's lymphoma who underwent autologous transplantation at KHCC bone marrow transplant program. Patients and Methods.

Radiotherapy with concurrent or sequential temozolomide in elderly patients with glioblastoma multiforme.

Objective: The objective of this article was to evaluate therapeutic outcomes of elderly patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) treated by surgery followed by combined modality therapy and compare achievable outcomes to those of a younger age population.

Methods And Materials: Seventy-eight adult patients with histologically confirmed grade IV astrocytoma were treated at King Hussein Cancer Center (Amman, Jordan) between September 2004 and December 2008. Records were retrospectively reviewed and included 55 males and 23 females between 19 and 78 years of age (median age 50 years).

Advanced gastric cancer in jordan from 2004 to 2008: a study of epidemiology and outcomes.

Background: WE REPORT THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC FEATURES AND THE TREATMENT EXPERIENCE OF ADVANCED GASTRIC CANCER (GC) AT KING HUSSEIN CANCER CENTER (KHCC) IN JORDAN, AND WE RETROSPECTIVELY COMPARE OUTCOMES OF TWO DIFFERENT REGIMENS: DCF (docetaxel/cisplatin/5-fluorouracil) vs. ECF (epirubicin/cisplatin/5-fluorouracil).

Methods: Charts of 162 patients with inoperable GC treated between January 2004 and December 2008 were reviewed.