background : the aim of this study was to explore saudi cancer patients' views regarding cancer information disclosure and whether differences existed between regions or gender. methods : in this cross-sectional questionnaire-based prospective survey, we interviewed 332 saudi cancer patients who received oncological care at king fahd university hospital, al-khobar, saudi arabia from july 2002 t...

inflammatory myopathy is a paraneoplastic syndrome. inflammatory myopathy may be the first manifestation of underlying malignancy. it was reported in patients with colon cancer, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, lung cancer and non-hodgkin lymphoma. there are few reports regarding inflammatory myopathy in patients with gastric cancer. we want to present inflammatory myopathy as early manifestation...

introduction accurate estimation of the skin-absorbed dose in external radiation therapy is essential to estimating the probability of secondary carcinogenesis induction materials and methods electron contamination in prostate radiotherapy was investigated using the monte carlo (mc) code calculation. in addition, field size dependence of the skin dose was assessed. excess cancer risk induced by...

background breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women around the world so finding new biomarkers for early detection and also study on molecular aspects of breast cancer is valuable. cancer testis genes are a group of genes expressed solely in testis and in a range of human malignancies. objectives in this study we determined the expression of cancer testis genes tsga10, tex101 and od...

epidemiological evidence shows that cancer and diabetes are major causes of death in the world. type2 diabetes increases the risk of cancer-specific mortality. this review relates diabetic therapies, diabetes and cancer.all published papers in this field were searched, looking into such databases as science direct, isi web of knowledge, pubmed and scopus.in cancer patients, metformin improves p...

background: gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer in the world and the third leading cause of death from cancer worldwide. this study aims to assess the epidemiology of gastric cancer in ardabil province, iran. methods: this was a descriptive cross-sectional study performed on 1056 patients with gastric cancer registered in the ardabil cancer registry. data were collected by a checklis...

background : ardabil cancer registry is the first population-based cancer registry in iran that was established in 2000. the first report from this registry revealed that ardabil has one of the highest rate of gastric cardia cancer and the lowest rate of cer­vical cancer in the world. we aim to update the cancer incidence in this area by the second follow up report from this registry. method : ...

introduction: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of carboplatin plus paclitaxel in patients with advanced locoregional recurrence and metastatic endometrial cancer. patient and method: 32 eligible patients (median age 62, range 41-72) with measurable endometrial cancer were treated with carboplatin (auc= 6) and paclitaxel (175 mg/m 3 ) every 4 weeks for 6 cycles, or, until disease progression ...

background: breast cancer is the most incident cancer and the fifth cause of death due to malignancies among iranian women. a strong breast cancer patients' sense of meaning and purpose in life appears to decrease anxiety in their life. the present study has investigated the effectiveness of group logotherapy on the reduction of anxiety in women with breast cancer. methods: the research was qua...

objective(s):cytochrome p-450 1a1 is an important enzyme in the first phase of the metabolism of some carcinogens such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs), as well as estrogen. the present study evaluates the existence of cyp1a1 polymorphism in a number of breast cancer samples. materials and methods: one hundred breast cancer patients and the same number of healthy controls were analyze...