treatment related acute myeloid leukemia (t-aml) is well documented phenomenon after chemotherapy. in this subgroup of patients acute promyelocytic leukemia (apml) due to delayed complication of using anthracycline is very rare occurrence. very few cases are reported in world literature. we are reporting a rare case of occurrence of t-apml in cured breast cancer patient treated with doxorubicin...

patients and methods in this qualitative study, 19 women with breast cancer were interviewed regarding their empowerment needs using the individual open-ended and, in-depth interviews and then the qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis. background due to the increasing number of women suffering from breast cancer worldwide, promoting the empowerment of these patients is an impo...

background breast cancer (bc) is the most common cancer in iranian women. studying the mortality statistics is important to monitor the effects of screening programs or the influence of earlier diagnosis on the burden of this chronic disease. misclassification is still a problem in the iranian death registry data and about 20% of death statistics are recorded in misclassified categories. object...

Objective- The studies have been shown that aspirin, an anti-inflammatory agent, could reduce occurrence of different cancers. The aim of the present study was to evaluate pharmacological effective concentrations of aspirin with/without radiotherapy on growth rate of MCF-7 breast cancer cell line Design- Experimental Study Animals- The MCF-7 breast cancer cell line from rats P...

despite a lot of research, the etiology and progression of breast cancer remain incompletely understood. recently, human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) was reported as a risk factor for breast cancer. the aim of this study was to know whether breast cancer could be caused by cytomegalovirus or not? in this experiment seventeen samples of razi/a mice with spontaneous breast cancer were being gathered fr...

Breast cancer is the female malignant neoplasia with the highest incidence in the industrialized world. Although early diagnosis has contributed to therapeutic success, breast cancer remains a major health issue. In the last few year the hormone therapy for estrogen-dependent breast cancer has evolved achieving significant clinical results; at the same time, it has enabled us to better define t...

Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) is the most aggressive and highly metastatic form of breast cancer [1-3]. In a recent study [4], we analysed breast cancer with peritumoral neoplastic lymphovascular invasion (ePVI) in comparison with inflammatory breast cancer, showing that ePVI breast cancer have more clinicopathologic affinity than differences with the most aggressive cancer in the breast. He...

background and objective: determination of hormone receptor status in the management of breast cancer is well-established. the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of androgen receptor (ar) expression in invasive ductal carcinoma of breast. materials and methods: for this purpose, 55 cases of invasive ductal breast carcinoma were examined using a monoclonal antibody against ar on for...

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