This, the sixth official document of the SIOP Working Committee on psychosocial issues in pediatric oncology, develops another important and especially difficult topic: assistance for terminally ill children with cancer. This is provided for the pediatric oncology community as a useful set of guidelines. It should be always possible for a declining child to die without unnecessary physical pain...

Introduction: Idiopathic Granulomatous Mastitis (IGM) is a rare, debilitating, chronic inflammatory disease of the breast, occurring in women child-bearing age, which can clinically, and radiologically mimic abscess, tubercular infection or breast cancer. Homoeopathy treat by addressing its multifactorial origin, given holistic approach. The paper presents case series 11 patients IGM treated wi...

BACKGROUND A breast cancer risk prediction model for black women, developed from data in the Women's Contraceptive and Reproductive Experiences (CARE) study, has been validated in women aged 50 years or older but not among younger women or for specific breast cancer subtypes. METHODS We assessed calibration and discrimination of the CARE model in the Black Women's Health Study (BWHS) with dat...

Abstract Among many deleterious ramifications of oncological treatments, there is permanent male infertility due to the damage spermatogonial stem cells (SSC) in testes after chemotherapy or irradiation. For those patients that cannot produce sperm before cancer treatment, because prepubertal age, are no clinical options available father a child. To preserve fertility childhood patients, freezi...

background: recent advances in cancer treatment have resulted in an increased number of cancer survivors. fertility might be impaired by cancer itself or through gonadal damage as a consequence of radio-chemotherapy. damages to reproductive organs are seen in minimally upto 30% of cancer patients. the aim of the present study was evaluate the attitude of iranian oncologists toward fertility pre...

1. Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1201 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801, USA 2. Department of Animal Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-1151, USA 3. Animal Breeding and Genetics Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 9101, Wageningen, 6701 BH, The Netherlands 4. Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champ...

The aim of this study was to illuminate the lived experiences of families where a child had survived 7 years from a diagnosis of childhood cancer. This article describes one part of an inductive and longitudinal research project that included 17 families. Four families whose child was diagnosed with cancer 7 years previously were interviewed using a hermeneutical phenomenological approach. The ...