there has been a highly significant increase in the number of patients with malignant mediastinal tumors in the last four decades. since these lesions are infrequently encountered and there are very few reports in iran concerning this issue, we performed this study to review our institutional experience of medias-tinal masses and to compare differences in the clinical spectrum between our study...

background : endometrial cancer is the most common type of malignancy in female reproductive system and is the fourth common cancer after breast, lungs and colorectal cancers. our aim is to report epidemiology and frequency types of endometrial cancer and clinical staging and grading of this disease. methods : in this description and cross-sectional study, 75 patients with diagnosed endometrial...

Fungal infections of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) are not rare, but get missed due to their misleading clinical features. Here we report three GIT fungal at different locations with varied symptoms. We received surgical resection specimens suspicion malignancy for all. The first was a case Aspergillosis, an uncommon site, esophageal, in 60year diabetic male carcinoma view presence dysphagia...

BACKGROUND In the treatment of prostate carcinoma, radiotherapy and surgery are common choices of comparable efficacy; thus a realistic comparison of the potential long term sequelae, such as the risk of second malignancy, may be of relevance to treatment choice. METHODS Data regarding the rate of incidence from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program cancer registry (1973-199...

Ewing sarcoma is the second most common primary osseous malignancy in children and young adults. However, infrequently, it can arise outside the skeletal system; rarer still, it can originate within the lung parenchyma. In this case report, we describe such a case in a 23-year-old male. We also review the literature to summarize imaging findings for this rare malignancy.

renal transplantation is considered one of the best long-term therapies for chronic renal failure, but unfortunately the incidence of malignancy significantly increases in renal transplant recipients. we analyzed nine cases of malignancy in 200 renal transplant recipients occurring in a 12-year follow-up in imam hospital of tehran university, tehran, iran. according to this study, the organ mos...

background and purpose: breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-specific mortality among women worldwide. this study aimed at investigating the epidemiological, clinical, and pathological characteristics of breast cancer among patients attending baghban clinic in sari. materials and methods: the patients’ records (2008-2014) were used and data including age, gender, marital status, men...

coeliac disease (cd) is an autoimmune disorder which leads to chronic inflammation of the gut. untreated cd is associated with upper gastrointestinal malignancies, small-bowel lymphoma and adenocarcinoma are recognized complications of untreated coeliac disease (cd). we report the case of a 43-year-old male suffering from cd who was treated with a gluten-free diet one year,  presenting with com...

cancer of the oral cavity accounts for approximately 3% of all malignancies diagnosed annually in 270,000 patients worldwide. oral cancer is the 12th most common cancer in women and the 6th in men. many oral squamous cell carcinomas develop from potentially malignant disorders (pmds). lack of awareness about the signs and symptoms of oral pmds in the general population and even healthcare provi...

childhood hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection causes both medical and public health challenges. infants who acquire hbv parentally have up to 90% risk of developing chronic hbv infection. it is now estimated that approximately 10% of worldwide cancers are attributable to viral infection, with the vast majority (>85 %) occurring in the developing world. in this distribution, elevated rate and prev...