background: by presenting this case we aimed to describe an uncommon complication of generalized peritonitis following spontaneous pyometra perforation in untreated cervical carcinoma. case presentation: this report describes a 60-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with clinical features mimicking intestinal perforation who was later diagnosed as cervical carcinoma with pyometra perforati...

Background & Aims: Gastric cancer is the second common cancer in Iran and it has unfortunately no diagnostic signs in early stages. Considering the role of genetic and environmental factors in the development of gastric cancer, this study aimed at evaluating DNA-content of stomach cells in patients with gastric cancer in order to find a reliable index for prediction of disease prognosis and pro...

We evaluated the phenotypic changes that take place in the L5178Y tumor cell population during the establishment, maintenance, and termination of the L5178Y tumor-dormant state in DBA/2 mice. Since there is considerable variation among DBA/2 mice in the course of the L5178Y tumor-dormant state, analysis of these phenotypic changes required prospective studies on individual mice. Therefore, we d...