OBJECTIVE To establish a comprehensive cancer treatment and prevention policy, data collection should be performed in a timely manner, and survival analysis needs to reflect changes in treatment strategy. Therefore, we introduced the concept of period analysis for gastric cancer, the most prevalent cancer in Korea. We estimated 5- and 10-year survival trend of gastric cancer, based on data from...

BACKGROUND Digoxin has been shown to affect a number of pathways that are of relevance to cancer, and its use has been associated with increased risks of breast and uterus cancer and, more recently, a 40% increase in colorectal cancer risk. These findings raise questions about the safety of digoxin use in colorectal cancer patients, and, therefore, we investigated whether digoxin use after colo...

background: depression and anxiety had negative effects on the quality of life of cancer patients, thus hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) is a useful instrument for screening these problems. this research was performed to assess the prevalence of their anxiety and depression. methods: from 2012-2013, one hundred fifty patients with recent diagnosis of different cancers in babol, iran...

Breast cancer is one of the most common cancer in the world. Early detection of cancers cause significantly reduce in morbidity rate and treatment costs. Mammography is a known effective diagnosis method of breast cancer. A way for mammography screening behavior identification is women's awareness evaluation for participating in mammography screening programs. Todays, intelligence systems could...

Primary fallopian tube carcinoma is a rare tumor that histologically and clinically resembles epithelial ovarian cancer. Here we introduce a case of tubal carcinoma in a postmenopausal woman. The diagnosis of primary fallopian tube carcinoma is rarely considered preoperatively and is usually first appreciated by the pathologist. Because of low frequency of tubal carcinoma, there are few systemi...

OBJECTIVE Qualitative studies indicated that cancer survivors may be worried about finding a partner in the future, but whether this concern is warranted is unknown. We examined single people´s interest in dating a cancer survivor, how they perceive survivors' traits, and their preferences about the timing of disclosing a cancer history. METHODS In three experimental vignette studies, dating ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore how women with a hereditary risk of breast cancer experience living with and managing that risk through surveillance. RESEARCH APPROACH Hermeneutic phenomenology guided the qualitative research design. SETTING The Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered online organization. PARTICIPANTS 9 women undergoing breast surveillance for hereditary breast cancer risk recr...