background: oral mucositis (om) remains the most common side effect of chemotherapy affects negatively on patients' quality of life. subjects and methods : convenience samples of patients who received chemotherapy were followed from first or second cycle of chemotherapy until om occurrence. we reviewed 75 female patients with breast cancer who received chemotherapy with mean age (47.2 sd ± 8.62...

background: thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy. several risk factors were found to play a role in thyroid cancer. the purpose of the study was to determine the risk factors for thyroid cancer, in babol, north of iran. method: 80 patients with thyroid cancer were selected as case group and 160 people living in the neighborhood of the patients as control group. risk factors in...

the tp53 gene is one of the most frequently mutated genes amongst human malignancies, particularly tp53 codon 72 polymorphism. furthermore, an association between the tp53 codon 72 variants and prostate cancer has been reported in several studies. although some studies have indicated an association between the tp53 arg/arg variant and an increased risk for prostate cancer, other studies have sh...

Background: Large part of research related to reproductive factors in breast cancer risk before and after menopause, a study case - control is that it factors in deliberate and spontaneous abortion in the two groups of women with breast cancer (cases) and non-infected women (control group) study, described odds ratio in women, breast cancer was measured. In this study, after recognizing the abo...

background: previous studies indicate a high incidence of digestive cancers along southern parts of caspian sea including ma­zandaran province. the present study was conducted to further investigate time to occurrence, age distribution and pos­sible risks associated with the incidence time of digestive cancers in the above regions. methods: for this purpose the data of digestive cancer incidenc...

 Background: Breast cancer is the first leading cause of cancer-related death in women. Pesticides which are excessively used in northern Iran are one of the most important risk factors for breast cancer incidence. The cytochrome P450 1A1 (cyp1A1) is a key enzyme in xenobiotics metabolism and SNPs of its coding gene has been verified to be important in cancer susceptibility. The aim of thi...

This meta-analysis aimed to provide an up-to-date comprehensive evaluation on the association between the MDM2 40bp indel polymorphism and cancer susceptibility. Eligible studies were retrieved by searching Web of Science, PubMed, Scopus, and Google scholar databases up to August 27, 2018. The pooled odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated to estimate the ...

Background: Large part of research related to reInternational Journal of Fertility & Sterility (IJFS), Vol 4, Suppl 1, Summer 2010 94 productivefactors in breast cancer risk before and after menopause, a study case - control is that it factors in deliberate and spontaneous abortion in the two groups of women with breast cancer (cases) and non-infected women (control group) study, described odds...

Background: Cancer is the main cause of death in developed countries and the second main cause of death in developing countries. The aim of this study was to review the occupational risk factors and cancer incident in Iran. Materials and Methods: this present systematic review was done based on Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines on Persian ar...