background & aim: breast cancer is recognized as the most common type of cancer among iranian women. cancer screening and early diagnosis are among the most effective strategies to reduce the associated mortality and healthcare costs. accordingly, the aim of this study was to investigate the level of knowledge and practice of breast cancer screening among women referred to hospitals affiliated ...

objective(s): this study addresses feature selection for breast cancer diagnosis. the present process uses a wrapper approach using ga-based on feature selection and ps-classifier. the results of experiment show that the proposed model is comparable to the other models on wisconsin breast cancer datasets. materials and methods: to evaluate effectiveness of proposed feature selection method, we ...

background: cancer is considered among the second largest groups of noncommunicable diseases and the third cause of death in iran. ranking in the top ten cancers in the world, esophagus cancer comes out on the sixth place. this study examines the epidemiology of esophagus cancer in fars cancer registry. methods: this was a descriptive-analytic study of cases of esophagus cancer registered in fa...

objective: breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the world. early diagnosis of this cancer is a key element for its treatment. one of the approaches for diagnosis of breast cancer is detection of its tumour-associated markers. hence, her2 has been the main focus of the researches in the field. materials and methods: for diagnosis of her2 overexpression, monoclonal antibodies (m...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and the earlier it is diagnosed, the easier it is to treat. The most common way to diagnose breast cancer is mammography. Mammography is a simple chest x-ray and a tool for early detection of non-palpable breast cancers and tumors. However, due to some limitations of this method such as low sensitivity especially in dense breasts, other method...

Synchronous cancer is referred to two or more histological distinct malignancies diagnosed during the same hospital admission. Globally more than 1 million people get colorectal cancer yearly resulting in about 0.5 million deaths. Vulvar cancer is the fourth most common gynecologic cancer (following the corpus uterine cancer, cancer of ovary and cervix) and comprises only 4 percent of malignanc...

background : biomarkers accepted for clinical use in breast cancer have low sensitivity and specificity. thus, there is a need for new markers to assist in the diagnosis, prognosis and follow-up of breast cancer patients. this study aims to investigate the diagnostic, prognostic and follow-up role of serum bcl-2, bax and p53 proteins in breast cancer patients in comparison with those of serum c...

Introduction: Cancer and chemotherapy could decrease serum Zinc level. In this study, serum Zinc level was investigated at the beginning of cancer diagnosis and 3 months after chemotherapy in children with all types of cancer. Method: In this cross sectional study forty-five 1-15 year old children who were newly diagnosed cancer cases (leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumor) were evaluated. Pat...