background: one of the economic evaluation techniques involves calculation of willingness to pay (wtp) for a service to find out the value of that service from the clients’ perspective. this study estimated wtp for both breast cancer and osteoporosis screening and comparatively examined the contributing factors. in fact, the comparisons served to provide an exact analysis of individual attitude...

Breast cancer affects Iranian women at least one decade younger than their counterparts in othercountries and the incidence of breast fibroadenoma is growing in the last two decades in Tehran. Thisstudy aimed to compare the AhR levels in premenopausal breast cancer and breast fibroadnemo withappropriate normal groups. Possible associations of AhR with lifestyle and reproductive risk factorsand ...

Breast cancer is one of the deadliest diseases, is the most common of all cancers and is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women worldwide. The classification of Breast Cancer data can be useful to predict the outcome of some diseases or discover the genetic behavior of tumors. In this paper we present a comparative survey on data mining techniques in the diagnosis and prediction of breast ...

Palpable mass is a common complaint presented to the breast surgeon. It is very uncommon for patients to report breast mass associated with palpable masses in other superficial structures. When these masses are related to systemic granulomatous diseases, the diagnosis and initiation of specific therapy can be challenging. The purpose of this paper is to report a case initially assessed by the b...

Background: Chest CT is a commonly used examination for the diagnosis of lung diseases, but a breast within the scanned field is nearly never the organ of interest.Objective: The purpose of this study is to compare the female breast and lung doses using split and standard protocols in chest CT scanning.Materials and Methods: The sliced chest and breast female phantoms were used. CT exams were p...