normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa microsoftinternetexplorer4 background: ca 15.3 is elevated in most patients with distant metastatic breast cancer who had prognostic information. the present study was performed to estimate predictive ability of ca 15.3 in assessment of symptomatic metastasis in patients with breast cancer. materials and methods: during five years, 159 primary breas...

results: the only significant difference was the older age of the malignant group vs. benign group (p = 0.001) regarding demographic findings. as concerns the clinical symptoms, presence of abdominal discomfort in pre-diagnosis period was the only significant parameter in malignant group (p = 0.001). additionally, data analysis of patients as a total group showed that specificity (96.4%), posit...

objective: alzheimer’s disease is the most common type of neurodegenerative disorder. it has been suggested that oxidative stress can be one of the pathological mechanisms of this disease. carnosic acid (ca) is an effective antioxidant substance and recent studies have shown that its electrophilic compounds play a role in reversing oxidative stress. thus we tried to find out whether ca administ...