background: chemotherapy-induced amenorrhea is one of long term side effects of adjuvant chemotherapy in patients with breast cancer which may interfere with their future reproductive function. although amenorrhea is well recognized, the actual incidence following taxanes remains uncertain. methods: in a cross sectional study, we identified breast cancer patients aged 45 years or younger who we...

the male breast cancer (mbc) is a very rare neoplasm which accounts for 0.5-1% of the total cases of breast cancer. bilateral involvement is reported to occur in fewer than 2% of all the diagnosed cases of mbc, and synchronous tumors are very rare. because of its rarity, little is known about mbc etiology, its clinical findings and treatment. most patients present with a painless breast mass. t...

rhabdomyosarcomas are the most common soft tissue sarcoma in adult and children that accompany with skeletal muscle differentiation. skin metastasis of rhabdomyosarcomas is unusual and has only been sporadically reported in literature. in this paper we present a case of skin metastasis of rhabdomyosarcoma in an 8-year-old girl that has treated with chemotherapy.

twenty-one patients with advanced breast cancer (7 premenopausal and 14 postmenopausal women) were treated with a combination of cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and cisplatin (cap). the median age of the patients was 43 years (range 36-61). this therapy was repeated every 3 weeks. nine patients (group 1) received cap as primary therapy for metastatic breast cancer, and twelve patients (group 2) ...

conclusions: according to finding of this study, in accordance to most of other researches, ginger is an effective agent to reduce chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. however, there are some researches supporting ginger as a moderate antiemetic agent among cancerous patients under chemotherapy. results: findings of the study indicated that subjects receiving ginger showed significant redu...

background: anxiety is the most prevalent psychological side effect of breast cancer and chemotherapy. this study aimed to determine the effect of slow stroke back massage (ssbm) on the anxiety of old female patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. methods: in this quasi-experimental study, 80 elderly women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy were enrolled by continuous sampl...

gastric cancer has been known as a poor prognosis disease with a high degree of mortality. in iran, it has been increased during the previous two decades, especially in northern part of the country. the aim of this study was to determine the demographic and clinical characteristics of gastric cancer in mazandaran province. all patients with gastric cancer diagnosis treated in the imam khomeini ...

results the results showed that the mean scores of nausea in the control group was increased from 2.97 on the first day to 3.26 and in the intervention group was decreased from 3.44 to 1.52 at the end of trial. however there was not any significant difference in the first, second, third and fourth days between two groups. conclusions massage can reduce nausea. however further studies with large...

background stomatitis is a disturbing side-effect of chemotherapy that disturbs patients and causes difficulties in patient’s drinking, eating and talking, and may results in infection and bleeding. objectives this study aimed to investigate the effect of yarrow distillate in the treatment of chemotherapy-induced stomatitis. patients and methods rapy-induced oral stomatitis referred to shahid b...

background: today the use of laparoscopy before laparotomy is an effective method for decision-making in patients with gastric adenocarcinoma. the reliance on ct scans for decision-making purposes is not only unhelpful, yet also misleading . nonetheless, indications for laparoscopy and its application are changing daily. the low quality of diagnostic tools and epidemiological situation in our c...