Cancer is one of the most common diseases in the world. One of the important psychological factors in these patients is a death anxiety. So this study aimed to investigate death anxiety in patients with cancer in Kermanshah. In this cross-sectional study that was performed on 101 patients with cancer that referred to the oncology department of Imam Reza Hospital, we used Templer Death Anxiety a...

aim : the aim of this was to investigate some clinical profiles and lifestyle changes in stoma patients. background : stoma patients experienced multiple complications due to their ostomy formation. patients and methods : a cross-sectional study performed on 102 random samples of stoma patients. any patient with adequate physical and mental capability to participate and having had an ostomy in ...

best treatment option, although, there is no common consent on optimal therapy for advanced prostate cancer. case presentation: the present study reports a case of 75 year-old man who had a huge heterogeneous soft tissue mass lesion with non-homogeneous enhancement consisted low attenuated foci occupying pelvis cavity and lower abdomen with loss of mesenteric fat and invasion to posterior bladd...

epidemiological evidence shows that cancer and diabetes are major causes of death in the world. type2 diabetes increases the risk of cancer-specific mortality. this review relates diabetic therapies, diabetes and cancer.all published papers in this field were searched, looking into such databases as science direct, isi web of knowledge, pubmed and scopus.in cancer patients, metformin improves p...

background: pharmacogenomics is the study of genetic variations among individuals to predict the probability that a patient will respond to single or multidrug chemotherapy. breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women worldwide. treatment of breast cancer by application of biological rationales gives us the ability to match the correct pharmacology to individual tumour genetic p...

esophageal squamous cell carcinoma is a rather common cancer in northern iran. incidence of adenocarcinoma of esophagus has an increasing trend in iran. co-existence of both cancers in one patient is very rare. we report a middle age woman from northern iran with a typical presentation of esophageal cancer, who was found to have a dual esophageal cancer. the disease was found in the advanced st...