introduction: the objective of the present study is to investigate the relationship between the familial history of digestive system cancers and development of gastric cancer. methods: in this case-control study conducted in 2012, 84 patients with a definite diagnosis of gastric cancer, diagnosed using endoscopy and pathological study of biopsies, were compared with 84 people with the same age ...

due to the high incidence of deaths from breast cancer, high cost of treatment and limited resources, the need to formulate and implement effective programs in reducing the burden of disease is obvious. care, control and creation of cancer information system having an infrastructure from collection of minimum data sets (mds) are the top priorities of research in iran's ministry of health.this i...

background :highserum level of cancer antigen 15.3 (ca15.3) has been reported in some malignant and nonmalignant conditions including thalassemia major which could have been resulted from ineffective erythropoiesis. we aimed to evaluate the serum level of ca15.3 in carriers of beta-thalassemia by comparing them with cancer patients and healthy individuals.   methods : this cross-sectional study...

objectives: ziziphus jujube (jujube) plant has exhibited numerous medicinal and pharmacological properties including antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects. this study was carried out to investigate its anti-cancer and pro-apoptotic abilities in human cervical and breast cancer cells in vitro. materials and methods: the cervical ov2008 and breast mcf-7 cancer cells were incubated with differ...

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a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Keywords: cosmogenic 10 Be 21 Ne Tibet climate glacier It has long been observed that the timing of glacial advances is asynchronous across the Himalaya– Karakoram–Tibet Plateau (HKTP) but the climatic implications, if any, remain unclear. Resolving this question requires additional glacial chronologies from unique spatial and climatic regimes as well as an...

introduction: the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (anfis) is a soft computing model based on neural network precision and fuzzy decision-making advantages, which can highly facilitate diagnostic modeling. in this study we used this model in breast cancer detection. methodology: a set of 1,508 records on cancerous and non-cancerous participant’s risk factors was used.  first, the risk fact...

background: cancer-screening programs are effective in reducing cancer prevalence and mortality; however, cancer remains the leading cause of death in elderly people in korea. the aim of this study was to identify the factors associated with elders’ participation in the national cancer screening program (ncsp) and differences in screening rates by gender. methods: original data from the korea n...

gastrointestinal (gi) cancers are a significant source of morbidity and mortality in iran, with stomach adenocarcinoma as the most common cancer in men and the second common cancer in women. also, some parts of northern iran have one of the highest incidences of esophageal cancer in the world. multi-disciplinary organ-based joint clinics and tumor boards are a well-recognized necessity for mode...