Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the various aspects of illness perceptions about breast cancer in affected patients. Methods: A cross-sectional study enrolled 140 patients with breast cancer in their chemotherapy period within 14 months. The revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (revised IPQ) was used to assess the disease representations of breast cancer. The ...

abstract breast cancer is a multifactorial disease. benign breast disease (bbd) is one of the most important risk factors for breast cancer. the etiology of bbd is unknown. it is divided into nonproliferative and proliferative diseases. the selection of studies will be based on titles, abstract screening, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and quality assessment. previous studies have shown that...

abstract background: in iran gastric cancer is the second most common cancer and the most cause of death cancer, the aim of this study is provide map geographical distribution of gastric cancer and detect high risk cluster with use of space-time scan statistic. methods: this was an applied study. the data is provided from reports published by center for disease control office in ministry of hea...

to determine the effectiveness of chemotherapy in the treatment of gastric cancer, a sample of 54 patients suffering from advanced adenocarcinomas were studied. the results of the study showed that the disease is more prevalent in the age group of56-60 years. the three major signs of this kind of cancer were almost equally present among both sexes in our patients. after chemotherapy, 74% of the...

a large number of people are affected by cancer and the primeval history of this malady has attracted attention toward complementary and alternative therapies to manage this disease. the present study has performed a survey on cancer in the iranian traditional medicine during the islamic era (itm) by focusing on cancer terminologies and related diseases over a millennium, from medieval to the e...

background : the ability to accept illness is a major issue in the life of a person with cancer. acceptance of disease is simultaneously conducted at two levels: the emotional and cognitive-behavioral one. it is consequential to cancer af-fecting numerous aspects of patient's life, i.e. the physical, mental, social and the spiritual area. the aim of the study was to verify the influence of soci...

artificial intelligence (ai) techniques offer powerful objective algorithms foranalysis of multimodal and high-dimensional data. recently, these techniques havebecome a reliable tool in the medical domain. this paper describes an efficienttechnique for building an application that is capable of forecasting and classifyinghealthcare information using machine learning as a subfield of ai methods....