results methylation in at least one gene was reported about 93.8%. the methylation of sfrp2 was reported in 39 out of the 48 subjects (81.2%) whereas methylation of mgmt was observed in 32 subjects (66.6%). conclusions the current study results showed that methylation of sfrp2 and mgmt play an important role in polyp formation. materials and methods forty eight tissue samples of polyp and adeno...

background most of the cancer patients may suffer from pain; therefore, music therapy -as a noninvasive method- is sometimes used to help reduce the pain of cancer patients. objective to evaluate the effects of music therapy on pain in some patients with cancer. material and methods this semi-experimental study was performed at urmia teaching hospital in 2011. a total number of 60 patients with...

conclusions given the results, improving skills, training and awareness is necessary for women and emphasis on modified diet is recommended as a non-medical option for prevention of breast cancer. results the mean scores of feeding type in the patients with and without breast cancer was 56.14 and 66.25, respectively. results obtained from data analysis showed that there was statistically signif...

background and aim: carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a significant cause of mortality because of malignancy in women. radiotherapy is a major treatment modality for invasive cervical cancer with good treatment outcome in early-stage patients. however, substantial treatment failures still occur in the advanced-stage patients. in this case report a long term follow up of a 58 years old woman wi...

background the mammograms and papanicolaou (pap) test of women aged 25 to 64 years are iran’s national strategy for breast and cervical cancer screening, respectively. widespread primary care services are supplied through a network of primary health centers; nonetheless, little is known about breast and cervical cancer screening-related practices among healthcare workers in hospitals. objective...

conclusions since telomerase is expressed in 90% of cancer cells, its inhibition can be considered as a goal of cancer treatment. results about 90% of cancers need a high level of this enzyme to continue cell multiplication. since this enzyme set is absent in normal cells, or present at a very low level, use of telomerase inhibitors cannot have significant effects on normal cells. evidence acqu...

abstractwe are reporting a 43-year-old female breast cancer case with a solitary metastatic adenocarcinoma in clivus. this patient with a stage ii (t1n1m0) breast cancer history has been followed for 7 years.  modified radical mastectomy (mrm) and 6 courses chemotherapy with cmf (cyclophosphamide, metotrexate, 5fu) regimen were done for her at the time of diagnosis. also, she took tamoxifen twe...

background : the aim of this study was to explore saudi cancer patients' views regarding cancer information disclosure and whether differences existed between regions or gender. methods : in this cross-sectional questionnaire-based prospective survey, we interviewed 332 saudi cancer patients who received oncological care at king fahd university hospital, al-khobar, saudi arabia from july 2002 t...

inflammatory myopathy is a paraneoplastic syndrome. inflammatory myopathy may be the first manifestation of underlying malignancy. it was reported in patients with colon cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and non-hodgkin lymphoma. there are few reports regarding inflammatory myopathy in patients with gastric cancer. we want to present inflammatory myopathy as early manifestation...

introduction accurate estimation of the skin-absorbed dose in external radiation therapy is essential to estimating the probability of secondary carcinogenesis induction materials and methods electron contamination in prostate radiotherapy was investigated using the monte carlo (mc) code calculation. in addition, field size dependence of the skin dose was assessed. excess cancer risk induced by...