background & objectives: prognosis of thyroid papillary cancer is quite well long lasting, so a 10- year survival is observed in more than 90% cases. in this study, rate of incidence of thyroid papillary cancer in contralateral lobe was assessed among patients who had a surgical thyroidectomy re-operation. materials & methods: in this retrospective study, we examined 82 patients diagnos...

Background & objectives: Prognosis of thyroid papillary cancer is quite well long lasting, so a 10- year survival is observed in more than 90% cases. In this study, rate of incidence of thyroid papillary cancer in contralateral lobe was assessed among patients who had a surgical thyroidectomy re-operation. Materials & Methods: In this retrospective study, we examined 82 patients diagnosed with...

This is a case report on stereotaxic (Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy-SBRT) for lung cancer located in the left lower lobe (Segment 6, S6). There have been no reports on marked displacement of the peripheral lung cancer during radiotherapy. A pulmonary nodule was discovered on computed tomography (CT) conducted for a persistent cough in an 87-year-old male. According to diagnostic imaging, this ...

introduction: as one of the most common cancers among head and neck malignancies, cancer of the oral cavity probably has some variations in countries with a high prevalence of esophageal cancer.  materials and methods: patients with oral cavity cancer who were treated at two tertiary referral centers from january 1999 to january 2009 were included in this study. in addition to demographic data,...

background : skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the world. thus, the aim of this study was to determine the incidence trend of skin cancer in isfahan province, iran. methods: the present cross-sectional study was conducted using data registered during 2004-2008 in the disease management center and cancer registry system of the ministry of health and medical education. the trend of ski...