absract idiopathic granulomatous mastitis is a rare, inflammatory, and benign breast disease characterized by non-caseating granulomata and microabscesses limited to breast lobules. this condition presents as a firm breast mass that is clinically and radiologically indistinguishable from breast cancer, or as multiple or recurrent abscesses, or mastitis in a young non-lactating woman. almost alw...

background: quality of life (qol) is becoming an important indicator of treatment efficacy in patients with breast cancer. most previous studies have compared patients' qol following breast conserving surgery (bcs) and mastectomy with or without reconstruction. our aim was to assess the impact of bcs versus oncoplastic breast surgery (obs). methods: selection of patients for bcs or obs was perf...

introduction the first medical intervention for many breast cancer patients is breast conserving surgery (bcs) and/or modified radical mastectomy (mrm). most of these patients undergo radiation therapy, following surgery. the most common side-effect of breast radiotherapy is skin damage. in the present study, the severity of acute skin changes and the underlying causes were investigated in pati...

introduction: many training programs have been conducted, aiming to encourage women to perform breast self-examination for early detection of breast cancer. this study aimed to review studies performed on efficacy of educational interventions to correct women’s behavior in breast self-examination. method : through systematic search of medline and isi web of science databanks to retrieve title...

this semi-experimental study was conducted to investigate the impact of nutrition education on knowledge of mothers concerning breast-feeding in giassi charity health centre in the south of tehran, yaftabad. breast-feeding and nutritional awareness of 104 randomly selected mothers was assessed before and after a one-month breast-feeding course (three 90-minutes' sessions per week). the proporti...

primary breast lymphoma represents less than 1% of all primary breast malignancies and most primary breast lymphomas are of b-cell origin. the association of anaplastic lymphoma kinase (alk) negative anaplastic large cell lymphoma (alcl), a very rare form of primary breast lymphoma, with silicone-filled breast implants has been suggested and several case reports supported this proposal, especia...

background: breast cancer incidence has increased rapidly inkuwait, but there haven’t been any studies investigating the recognized risk factors of breast cancer inkuwait. the aim of the study was to investigate breast cancer risk factors among women inkuwait.   methods: a case-control study was conducted in kuwait from may 2003 to march 2004 using a questionnaire including socio-demographic da...

breast cancer is common and is considered second cause of cancer related mortality in females. regarding importance of breast cancer, more investigation in this field is recommended. for many years investigators believed that neoplasms were not innervated but new findings have proved otherwise. this descriptive study was carried out to compare number of nerve fibers in benign, malignant and nor...

mucinous carcinoma of the breast is a well-differentiated type of adenocarcinoma accounting for 2-5% of all breast cancers. pure mucinous carcinoma of the breast has a favorable prognosis, usually seen in post-menopausal women. neuroendocrine differentiation has been described in both in-situ and infiltrating breast cancers .mucinous carcinomas of the breast appear to have the greatest associat...

background: idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (igm) is a rare benign breast disease, which can mimic breast cancer. as the managements of igm and breast cancer are entirely different and the initial clinical manifestations are similar in several cases, it is very important to differentiate them. case presentation: we reported a 48-year-old female patient with igm and breast cancer. she was refe...