introduction: endometrial cancer is the most common pelvic malignancy in women. approximately 7,000 women die from this disease every year. although most patients can be treated with appropriate therapies, there is insufficient data regarding the choice of the best adjuvant therapy after a surgical procedure in advanced endometrial cancer cases. it seems that radiotherapy or chemotherapy alone ...

background: we conducted a retrospective analysis to evaluate the impact of omission of supraclavicular radiotherapy on supraclavicular failure rate and treatment outcomes in n1 breast cancer patients with evaluation of prognostic factors that affected supraclavicular recurrence free survival. methods: this study analyzed the medical records of 109 patients with n1 breast cancer. all patients u...

with poor prognosis, rapid growth, distant metastasis, early regional metastasis, and a high rate of recurrence. The parotid gland is the most common site of involvement, and the lungs and the bones are the most common sites of distant metastasis of SDC. Herein, we present a case of SDC of the parotid gland in a 62-year-old male patient with an unusual metastasis to the skin of the primary site...

Adenoid cystic carcinoma (AdCC) is a malignant neoplasm, which accounts for 5-10% of all salivary gland tumors (1). About 50% of these tumors originate from intraoral minor salivary glands usually in the hard palate (1). Three clinically obvious characteristics of AdCC include slow growth rate, perineural invasion and high incidence of distant metastasis (1). The most commonly-affected sites of...

background: the aim of this study was to detect prognostic factors in recurrent breast cancer metastasis. materials and methods: th is retrospective cohort study employed data from 996 breast cancer patients of isfahan seyed-o-shohada research center from 1998 to 2010. stratifi ed cox proportional hazards model, marginal approach, was used to evaluate the prognostic value of estrogen receptor, ...

abstract:   introduction: colorectal cancer (crc) is one of the most common cancers in the world. during the past decades, survival of colorectal cancer patients has improved worldwide, however, it is not clear what factors have contributed to this development. this study was designed to evaluate the prognostic impact of a wide spectrum of pathologic parameters on survival rate in patients with...

adenoid cystic carcinoma (adcc) is a malignant neoplasm, which accounts for 5-10% of all salivary gland tumors (1). about 50% of these tumors originate from intraoral minor salivary glands usually in the hard palate (1). three clinically obvious characteristics of adcc include slow growth rate, perineural invasion and high incidence of distant metastasis (1). the most commonly-affected sites of...