Background & Objectives: Colon cancer is currently of high incidence and mortality rate. Identifying the factors influencing its prognosis can be very beneficial to its clinical treatment. Recent studies have shown that lymph nodes ratio can be considered as an important prognostic factor. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of this factor on the prognosis of the ...

UNLABELLED Some small tumors of the breast cannot be diagnosed by needle biopsy, and an excisional biopsy is occasionally needed for the diagnosis. Sentinel node navigation surgery is frequently suitable for patients with such small breast cancers. The purpose of this study was to compare sentinel lymphoscintigrams in breast cancer patients who had previously undergone excisional biopsy with se...

As we know breast cancer is the second death reason in Iran. One step of treatment process is radiotherapy, which needs careful consideration of contouring and therapeutic techniques Lung, thyroid, spinal cord, trachea and humerus are sensitive organs in breast cancer radiation therapy.  The most clinical studies recommended two ways for delivering 95 percent of dose to supraclavicular and ...

SUMMARY Castleman's disease is a rare condition. In its classic form Castlema's is a solitary lesion, two third of patients have tumour like mass in the mediastinum. Extrathoracic sites also could be affected including those where lymph nodes normaly occur ancl rarely tissues where lymph nodes are not found. More recently there have been several reports of patients with multi centeric involvem...

Introduction: The applicability of sentinel lymph node biopsy for early detection of metastasis in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is still in the validation phase and under investigation, which might be due to the unpredictability of the lymphatic pattern in RCC. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of sentinel node biopsy in patients with ...

Little is known about the clinical importance of intramammary lymph node metastasis of breast cancer, even though it is not rare. In the present paper, the authors present an unusual, rare case of an intramammary lymph node metastasis of an unknown primary, probably occult breast cancer, and its management. The patient was submitted to various staging exams and surgical procedures and a definit...