pulmonary metastases occur in 30% of all oncology patients. surgical resection of lung metastases is a widely accepted procedure but long-term results are disappointing with a 5-year survival rate of 20-40% and the results vary with the histologic type of the primary tumor. due to unavailability of any study regarding pulmonary metastasectomy in iran and emergence of new treatment modalities, r...

adrenocortical carcinoma (acc) is a rare tumor and usually a fatal disease which can develop at any age in either sex. differential diagnosis between malignant and benign adrenal mass is not easy which leads to significant clinical challenge for optimal treatment. here we report a 22-year-old woman diagnosed with primary hyper aldostronism initially but disease relapsed during six months and ma...

zosteriform metastasis is a rare clinical distribution from spreading neoplasms of every organ to the skin. tumors most often arise from a n internal o r hematologic malignancy. w e report a 69-year-old man, a known case of malignant melanoma of the left heel. in this case, multiple red-brown metastatic nodules appeared four months after diagnosis. distribution of metastatic lesions resembled a...

objective: cancer represents the second cause of mortality in the world. saffron as a medicinal plant is known for its anti-cancer and anti-depressant properties. in this randomized double blind clinical trial, the effects of saffron on response to treatment in patients suffering from liver metastasis were evaluated. materials and methods: thirteen patients suffering from liver metastases who r...

background and objectives: involvement of lymph nodes is an important prognostic factor in the most cancers, including colorectal cancer. in the recent years, invasion to blood and lymphatic vessels has been shown to predict involvement of lymph nodes and the number of involved nodes has been less studied issue. the aim of this study was determination of the relationship between the size of col...

following failure of systemic chemotherapy, transarterial chemoembolization (tace) is an available method to control unresectable liver metastases from colorectal carcinoma (crc). the aim of present study was to evaluate the efficacy of chemoembolization for inoperable metastatic liver lesions from crc. forty-five crc patients with liver metastases resistant to systemic chemotherapy were enroll...

introduction: medullary thyroid carcinoma (mtc) is a rare thyroid cancer secreting calcitonin (ct) which is the most sensitive and specific tumor marker for mtc. this type of thyroid cancer is able to metastasize to different body areas including regional lymph nodes, lungs, liver and bone. the aim of this study was to assess the sensitivity and specificity of [99mtc-dmsa (v)] whole body scan (...

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background : the brain is a rare site of metastases from ovarian cancer. limited data are available on prognostic factors, standard treatment, and survival. knowledge of clinical prognostic factors would help the management of patients with brain metastases. the aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of clinical factors and treatment modalities on survival in patients with brain metastases...

a 65 years old male presented with abdominal pain (r.u.q) and constipation, associated with weight loss and anorexia since 40 days prior to admission. serum biochemical tests were normal. colonoscopy showed hemorrhagic polypoid lesion in the cecum. barium enema revealed filling defect in the cecum. sonography revealed a target-shaped lesion (3cm×2.5cm) in upper segment of the right hepatic lobe...