conclusions a significant association was found between ages of women with their delays in consultation. delay is still prevalent amongst women with breast cancer. it seems necessary to design educating programs for women in both clinical and community settings, about breast cancer and early detection practices. results the mean age of women was 46.99 years. 38.4% of women were ≤ 40 years. 61% ...

background breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. based on the latest iranian national cancer department report, the total number of women registered with breast cancer was 6976 cases during 2007. five year survival is one of the indicators used for evaluation of the quality for care to different types of malignancies including breast cancer. objectives the aim of this s...

patients and methods in this cross-sectional study, data of 584 female patients (mean age of 45.9 years) referred to breast cancer research center (tehran, iran) were analyzed anonymously. spss and norm softwares (2.03) were used for data transformation, running and interpretation of cca and replacing missing values, respectively. data were obtained from breast cancer research center, tehran, i...

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...

background: multifactorial regression models are frequently used in medicine to estimate survival rate of patients across risk groups. however, their results are not generalisable, if in the development of models assumptions required are not satisfied.  missing data is a common problem in pathology. the aim of this paper is to address the danger of exclusion of cases with missing data, and to h...

Introduction and Patient Profile: Carcinosarcoma of the breast is a rare malignancy composed of two cell lines described as a ductaltype carcinoma with a sarcoma-like component. It is an aggressive neoplasm that is usually larger in size than epithelial breast cancers and characterized by a rapid increase in size. A 32-year-old woman presented with a palpable lump in the left upper outer breast...

Background & aim: Flaxseed is the richest source of lignan which is one of the main categories of phytoestrogens. In addition to the estrogenic and anti-estrogenic properties of lignan, it has non-hormonal properties as well. The treatment of menopausal hot flashes and cyclic mastalgia, the reduction in vasomotor symptoms and tumor cell growth and recurrence, the prevention of breast and ovaria...

metaplastic carcinoma is a rare form of breast cancer and is a generic term for breast carcinoma of ductal type in which the predominant component of the neoplasm has an appearance other than epithelial glandular structures.we report a case of this rare tumor in as 57-year-old psot- menopausal woman

Primary breast lymphoma (PBL) is a rare clinical entity. The clinical and imaging findings in breast lymphoma can mimic those of breast carcinoma. As a result, the diagnosis of PBL relies on histological evaluation and confirmed by immunohistochemical staining. The treatment of choice of this rare disease is controversial. This case report highlights the diagnosis and management of a 48-year-ol...

BACKGROUND Secretory carcinoma of the male breast (juvenile carcinoma) is a rare neoplasm. Only a few cases have been reported in the literature. CASE REPORT We report here a case in a 17-year old male presenting with recurrent breast swelling. CONCLUSIONS Though considered an indolent neoplasm, secretory carcinoma does metastasise to lymph nodes and recur after local excision. Surgery in f...