PURPOSE This study was initiated to prove feasibility of hydrogel application in recto-vaginal space in intracavitary brachytherapy (ICBT) of cervical cancer in order to reduce rectal toxicity. MATERIAL AND METHODS In a case of stage IIB cervical cancer, after external beam radiotherapy (EBRT), we planned ICBT 7 Gy × 3 fractions. In 1st fraction (Plan 1), due to narrow separation between rect...

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 ...

A familial relationship between intestinal polyposis and the predisposition of polyposis to colonic cancer has been accepted since the publication in 1952/1953 of Dukes's paper. He collected information on every patient presenting at St Mark's Hospital with polyposis coli and investigated the family background in each case. He was able to study 41 families, trace 156 cases of polyposis, and 114...

Colorectal cancer remains a significant medical illness and a leading cause of death in the geriatric population. Improvements in management include postoperative surgical adjuvant therapy for colonic cancer and postoperative chemotherapy and radiation for rectal cancer. Some advancement in the diagnostic and screening aspects has occurred. Management decisions in the older patients should foll...

Colorectal cancer is the most common noncutaneous malignancy in Europe and the second most frequent cause of cancer-related deaths, with 436,000 cases (13.6% of the total) diagnosed in 2008, accounting for 212,000 deaths (12.3% of all cancer-related deaths) 1 . United States is the only country in the world where incidence rates from colorectal cancer are reported to be decreasing significantly...

The objective of this study was to investigate development of the weight and the morphological development of the rectum in broiler chickens. Twenty broiler chickens (Ross 308) were used in this experiment and they were 12, 20, 35 and 44 days of age. Samples from the rectum of chicks were sectioned in an unbiased manner and examined quantitatively using stereology. In addition, the weight of bo...

Neuroendocrine carcinomas (NECs) are rare malignancies that originate from the hormone-producing cells of the body's neuroendocrine system. Rectal high grade NEC (HG-NEC) constituting less than 1% of colorectal cancers can cause large ovarian metastasis that may be the initial presenting complaint. Ovarian Krukenberg tumor from a primary rectal HG-NEC is a very unusual and exceedingly uncommon ...