background: breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women, and screening is the best way to make an early diagnosis. the aim of this study was to determine the rate of screening mammography and related variables in the mammography center of mousavi hospital, located in zanjan, iran. methods: this was a prospective descriptive study. study sample size was 526 women who were selected by ...

background: electrochemotherapy is a relatively new technique in the treatment of skin metastases that are not amenable to conventional therapy. its use in breast cancer is now established in many european centers. methods: published literature of electrochemotherapy in terms of its scientific basis, current clinical practice of breast cancer treatment providers, as well as the future direction...

background: much research has widely been conducted into thyroid hormones levels following radiotherapy for breast cancer. consequently, in this study, we evaluated to relate the rate of thyroid hormones levels with the dose distribution among breast cancer patients. material and methods: thirty patients were treated with 4-field breast cancer radiotherapy. the dose volume histograms, the volum...

abstractwe are reporting a 43-year-old female breast cancer case with a solitary metastatic adenocarcinoma in clivus. this patient with a stage ii (t1n1m0) breast cancer history has been followed for 7 years.  modified radical mastectomy (mrm) and 6 courses chemotherapy with cmf (cyclophosphamide, metotrexate, 5fu) regimen were done for her at the time of diagnosis. also, she took tamoxifen twe...

Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a highly metastatic and rare type of breast cancer, accounting for 2-6% of newly diagnosed breast cancer cases each year. The highly metastatic nature of IBC cells remains poorly understood. Here we describe our recent data regarding the ability of IBC cells to overcome anoikis.

  Absract   Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is a rare, inflammatory, and benign breast disease   characterized by non-caseating granulomata and microabscesses limited to   breast lobules. This condition presents as a firm breast mass that is clinically and radiologically indistinguishable from breast cancer, or as multiple or recurrent abscesses, or mastitis in a young non-lactating woman. Al...

background: chemokine receptors have been shown to play an important role in the development and metastatic spread of various malignancies. in this study, the gene expression profile of some key chemokine receptors involved in metastasis has been investigated in esophageal and breast cancer cell lines.   methods: in a descriptive study, gene expression profile of ccr1, ccr6, ccr7, ccr9, cxcr1, ...

Chapter 4 Prognostic value of a mRNA immune infiltrate signature on histopathological breast cancer subtypes of lymph node-negative primary operable breast cancer 92 Abstract Introduction Cancer related inflammation plays a key role in cancer progression and has been reported to be able to both promote and inhibit tumour growth. In breast cancer the prognostic value of a general tumour inflamma...

background: clinical experiences have revealed that patients with breast cancer experience various sexual problems following their treatment. breast cancer negatively impacts the sexual life of the afflicted couples, and as a traumatic event can influence women’s psychosexual functioning and intimate relationship. this review focuses on sexuality after breast cancer and on a growing need for bi...

Background: Carnosine is a dipeptide molecule (?-alanyl-l-histidine) with anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-glycation, and chelating properties. It used in exercise physiology as food supplement to increase performance; however, vitro evidence suggests that carnosine may exhibit anti-cancer Methods: In this study, we investigated the effect of on breast, ovarian, colon, leukemic cancer cell ...