Medical tourism emerged when people were challenged with high costs and slow service in medical care. As a consequence of these issues, people started to look for medical treatment in other countries. Globalization accelerated the growth of medical tourism. Several “push” and “pull” factors play roles in the motivation of patients to become a medical tourist. This review addresses the different...

primary pancreatic lymphoma is a rare extranodal manifestation of any histopathologic subtype of b cell non-hodgkin's lymphoma that predominantly involves the pancreas. it comprises less than 0.2% of pancreatic malignancies and less than 0.7% of non-hodgkin's lymphomas. this lymphoma is almost never suspected clinically. it is usually diagnosed by surgical exploration for suspected ad...

Current therapy for Hodgkin disease has resulted in a 5year survival rate of approximately 90% for individuals with asymptomatic stage I and II disease and nearly a 60% survival rate for those with symptomatic stage IV disease (1 ]. This improvement in survival has created an increase in the number of second malignancies occurring after successful treatment of the original disease, a complicati...

non-hodgkin's lymphoma is the 3rd most common cancers in children. in the present study, to determine pathological and clinical features of this cancer, we reviewed records of 84 cases of non-hodgkin's lymphoma who were admitted to ali asghar and bahrami children hospitals from 1989 to 1996. 59% of cases had small non-cleaved cell (sncc) subtype of disease. 15% were lymphoblastic and ...

  A male patient with acute renal failure (ARF) due to large B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma infiltration of kidney is presented. The diagnosis was suspected because of coincidence of ARF and tumor lysis syndrome non-responsive to conservative renal therapies. A renal biopsy confirmed diagnosis and appropriate chemotherapy led to complete improvement of renal function.  

background: lymphomas are a group of malignancies affecting b, t and nk cells. cox-2 enzyme is one of the known inflammatory factors which increase in the inflammation process. increase in cox-2 expression inhibits apoptosis and increases tumor cells invasion and angiogenesis. increase in the cox-2 gene expression is seen in a group of cancers .specific cox-2 inhibition also can be beneficial i...

Background: The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has been linked to a variety of B-cell lymphomas, including Burkitt lymphoma (BL), classical Hodgkin (cHL), and diffuse large (DLBCL), at rates ranging from 5 10% DLBCL cases >95% in endemic BL. Methods: Present study conducted AL-Najaf Holy City; it is cross sectional study. All patients were recruited Middle Euphrates Cancer Research Unit Laboratory...