a 49 year old woman diagnosed as a cervical cancer patient, after receiving appropriate treatment experienced metastasis in her abdominopelvic cavity. after aggressive management, she was well for a while. however, she developed to a poor condition consisting of urologic, gastroenterological, hematologic and neurologic problems just in a short time. in the course of hospital she presented one s...

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 ...

this study was carried out to analyze certain epidemiological variations in iranian patients with colorectal cancer. (crc): from march 1981 up to march 1993, 103 patients were analyzed retrospectively for age, gender, marital state, job, nutritional habits, presenting symptoms and histopathological features. most of the patients with colorectal cancer were male, age range 20-75 (mean 56), 25.4 ...

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...

occurrence of cutaneous metastasis of gastrointestinal cancer is uncommon, with a reported frequency of less than 5 percent.they can occur as the first sign of disease recurrence in a treated patient or as a sign of terminal disseminated cancer or rarely as the first manifestation of an occult malignancy. the cases reported here represent three different manifestation of cutaneous metastasis of...

leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (lmc) from gastrointestinal cancer would be rare. a 56-years old man with complaint of dyspepsia and histopathologic examination of the biopsy specimens has shown: adenocarcinoma. at the end of adjuvant chemo radiation therapy, the patient has affected by headache and mild confusion. in cerebrospinal fluid (csf) cytology, a plenty of malignant cells have seen and u...

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...

results methylation in at least one gene was reported about 93.8%. the methylation of sfrp2 was reported in 39 out of the 48 subjects (81.2%) whereas methylation of mgmt was observed in 32 subjects (66.6%). conclusions the current study results showed that methylation of sfrp2 and mgmt play an important role in polyp formation. materials and methods forty eight tissue samples of polyp and adeno...

background most of the cancer patients may suffer from pain; therefore, music therapy -as a noninvasive method- is sometimes used to help reduce the pain of cancer patients. objective to evaluate the effects of music therapy on pain in some patients with cancer. material and methods this semi-experimental study was performed at urmia teaching hospital in 2011. a total number of 60 patients with...

conclusions given the results, improving skills, training and awareness is necessary for women and emphasis on modified diet is recommended as a non-medical option for prevention of breast cancer. results the mean scores of feeding type in the patients with and without breast cancer was 56.14 and 66.25, respectively. results obtained from data analysis showed that there was statistically signif...