BACKGROUND Depression is prevalent among women and associated with reduced quality of life, and therefore it is important to determine its incidence in adult women, especially in those with breast cancer. OBJECTIVE To determine the occurrence of depression in women who underwent conservative surgery for breast cancer with or without breast reconstruction. METHODS Seventy-five women aged bet...

Paralytic ileus is a condition where the intestine becomes paralysed in absence of any mechanical obstruction. The common causes are intra-abdominal surgery, severe metabolic problems and drugs. Many anticancer drugs targeted therapy important this toxicity. Early diagnosis appropriate management essential because if prolonged untreated it can lead to death same way as acute Capecitabine an ora...

abstract background: the aim of this study was to investigate the various aspects of illness perceptions about breast cancer in affected patients. methods: a cross-sectional study enrolled 140 patients with breast cancer in their chemotherapy period within 14 months. the revised illness perception questionnaire (revised ipq) was used to assess the disease representations of breast cancer. the d...

Introduction: The proton beam produced in particle accelerators has an appropriate therapeutic potential. In this research, proton therapy of breast cancer is simulated using the MCNPX code in a MIRD phantom, also the contribution of scattered neutron dose during the proton therapy were calculated for the Heart, Lung and Liver.   Materials and Methods: For si...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women of developed countries. Early stage diagnosis is followed, in many cases, of conservative surgery and local radiotherapy. This treatment reduces loco-regional recurrences but may be accompanied by local complications. Morphea of the breast is an uncommon skin condition and has been described after radiotherapy. The inflammatory stage of morphea c...

aim: breast cancer is the most common cancer and prtlfattryn and in terms of emotional and psychological affects women more than other cancers. the aim of this study was to compare the styles documents, spiritual experiences and resilience of women with breast cancer in healthy women respectively     methods: the study of causal - comparative on all women with breast cancer (n = 50) and healthy...

The prime incision technique is an oncoplastic surgery aimed to remove both the breast tumor and the sentinel lymph node through one incision, thus providing better aesthetic results than the conventional breast conservative two incision technique. We retrospectively evaluated 2 cohorts of 60 consecutive breast cancer patients operated by either conventional breast conservative surgery (N = 26)...

A 65-year-old woman with a history of breast cancer (stage T2N0M0 treated with left breast conservative therapy 7 years previously followed by hormone therapy) underwent fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (F-18-FDG PET/CT) for restaging due to increased serum tumour markers levels (CA15-3, 37 U/ml and CEA, 8 ng/ml). The patient presented thoracic pai...