background cancer stem cells play crucial roles in resistance to therapeutic schemes and relapse of disease, so it is important to find targeted therapies that kill them selectively. breast cancer is the most common cancer in females living in all part of the world including iran and it has an important burden in public health with direct impact on patients’ families. breast cancer in young adu...

PURPOSE Men with Klinefelter syndrome have one or more extra X chromosomes and have endocrine abnormalities. Klinefelter syndrome has been consistently associated with breast cancer in men (MBC). CASE REPORT We report a 54-year old man was diagnosed as synchronous bilateral breast cancer with Klinefelter syndrome. On clinical examination there was mass in the lateral upper quadrant right brea...

Synchronous bilateral male breast cancer (MBC) is rare and only a few cases have been reported in the literature. The majority of MBC patients have no definable risk factors. We describe a case with Klinefelter's syndrome, prior thymic irradiation, testicular surgery, and first degree family history in a 61-year-old male.

Distant metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), particularly from papillary thyroid microcarcinoma, is rare. We present a case of perigastric lymph node metastasis from PTC in a patient with early gastric cancer and breast cancer. During post-surgical follow-up for breast cancer, a 56-year-old woman was diagnosed incidentally with early gastric cancer and synchronous left thyroid can...

breast cancer affects iranian women at least one decade younger than their counterparts in othercountries and the incidence of breast fibroadenoma is growing in the last two decades in tehran. thisstudy aimed to compare the ahr levels in premenopausal breast cancer and breast fibroadnemo withappropriate normal groups. possible associations of ahr with lifestyle and reproductive risk factorsand ...

conclusions in this study, we proposed a new computer aided diagnostic tool for the detection and classification of breast cancer. the obtained results showed that the proposed method is more reliable in diagnostic to assist the radiologists in the detection of abnormal data and to improve the diagnostic accuracy. results after classification with the ensemble supervised algorithm, the performa...

background: metformin is used to lower blood sugar in patients with type ii diabetes. recent research showed that metformin has effects on cancer cell growth. studies show that metformin can induce apoptosis in certain cancer cell lines. in this study, we examined the effect of metformin on apoptosis in the t47d breast cancer cell line. methods : the t47d breast cancer cell line was selected an...

background: regulatory t cells (t-regs) have an important role in cancer by suppression of protective antitumor immune responses. regulatory t cells express the forkhead/winged helix transcription factor (foxp3) and ox40 molecules which have important regulatory roles in the immune system. objective: to evaluate foxp3 and ox40 transcripts in the peripheral blood mononuclear cells of women with ...

This case report describes a rare clinical condition: metastasis of synchronous multiple primary tumors - skin melanoma and breast cancer in one axillary lymph node, confirmed with the results of clinical, morphological and immunohistochemical study of surgical material from 40 year-old woman.