conclusions it appears that the patient-caregiver education and follow-up program had a beneficial effect on the caregiver strain index compared to the usual care. results the caregiver strain index decreased significantly in the intervention group after the patient-caregiver education and follow-up (p < 0.001), while the control group’s scores did not change (p = 0.04). background in recent ye...

Breast cancer has become the most frequently diagnosed and leading cause of cancer-related death among women worldwide, overtaking lung cancer. The Present study attempts to investigate use D2 -40 for detection lympho- vascular invasion in node negative breast Additionally lympho-vascular using its association with distant metastasis overall prognosis patient was also explored.

The rate of cervical cancer in Asians is deferent, based on the risk factors affecting and the rate of papiloma virus infection among females. Cervical cancer is one of the important cancers between Iranian women. In the present study the rate of cervical neoplasia was detected in Isfahan and some risk factors affecting the incidence of cervical cancer was analyzed. The human papiloma virus inf...

background: idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (igm) is a rare benign breast disease, which can mimic breast cancer. as the managements of igm and breast cancer are entirely different and the initial clinical manifestations are similar in several cases, it is very important to differentiate them. case presentation: we reported a 48-year-old female patient with igm and breast cancer. she was refe...

Introduction: Lung cancer is the disease of modern era, and the rate of lung cancer mortality is three times as high as that for prostate cancer and twice as high as the rate for breast cancer. We aimed to analyze the results of pulmonary resection in patients with NSCLC by minimally invasive thoracoscopy.  Materials and Methods: We studied 10 patients with NSCLC scheduled for surgical resectio...

cancer is one of the most common diseases in the world. one of the important psychological factors in these patients is a death anxiety. so this study aimed to investigate death anxiety in patients with cancer in kermanshah. in this cross-sectional study that was performed on 101 patients with cancer that referred to the oncology department of imam reza hospital, we used templer death anxiety a...

evaluation of the effects of educational package on controlling the complications of chemotherapeutic agents on symptom scales of quality of life in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy    baghaei r [1] *, sharifi m [2] , mohammadpour y [3] , sheykhi n [4]     received: 9 jul , 2013 accepted: 14 sep , 2013    abstract  background & aims : today breast cancer is the most common ma...