Background and purpose: Acute leukemia is a malignancy with a rapidly progressive course of the lymphoid or myeloid cells. A prognostic factor for its survival and treatment is of particular importance in medical research. Therefore, this study aimed at applying competing risk model to compare clinical and pathologic factors in pediatric acute leukemia. Materials and methods: A historical coho...

Introduction: Lung cancer is the main cause of mortality in both genders worldwide. This disease is caused by the uncontrollable growth and development of cells in both or one of the lungs. Although the early diagnosis of this cancer is not an easy task, the earlier it is diagnosed, the higher will be the chance of treating. The objective of this study was to develop an optimized prediction mod...

Introduction: Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for patients with advanced kidney diseases. The aim of this study was to determine the rate of transplanted kidney survival and compare the efficiency of Cox semi-parametric model with the parametric models in determination of survival effective factors. Method: This is a historic cohort study including the information of 381 ESRD pati...

Introduction: Lung cancer is the main cause of mortality in both genders worldwide. This disease is caused by the uncontrollable growth and development of cells in both or one of the lungs. Although the early diagnosis of this cancer is not an easy task, the earlier it is diagnosed, the higher will be the chance of treating. The objective of this study was to develop an optimized prediction mod...

Background and purpose: Hypoxia occurs especially in heart diseases and could lead to death. Compounds with antioxidant activity could display antihypoxic property. Sambucus ebulus (SE) and Myrtus communis (Myrtle) are well known plants with distinctive antioxidant activities. To the best of our knowledge there are no reports on their antihypoxic activities. Materials and methods: Protective e...