Results: In the present study, 30.89% women were in the age group 31-40 yrs. Most of the women (71.34 %) were married. Most of the women (44.27%) had secondary education and 13.69% were illiterate. Only 30.89% of the women were aware of breast selfexamination. In the study only 22.61% of the females had ever checked their breast. The level of awareness of breast self examination was highest amo...

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Development of pulmonary fibrocystic disease in the upper lobes is a well recognised extraskeletal manifestation of ankylosing spondylitis but its pathogenesis is obscure.' 2 Although pulmonary fibrosis may occur in association with other collagen vascular diseases, a predilection for the upper lobes is unique to ankylosing spondylitis. The fibrocystic disease is usually asymptomatic; if sympto...

Mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases act as transducers of extracellular signaling via tyrosine kinase-growth factor receptors and G-protein-linked receptors to elements regulating transcription. The activity, abundance, and localization of MAP kinase was investigated in normal and malignant neoplasia of the breast. In carcinoma of the breast, MAP kinase was heavily phosphorylated on tyrosyl...

BACKGROUND Few studies have examined the predictors of adherence separately for supervised and unsupervised exercise or in postmenopausal women over an extended time period. Here, we report the predictors of exercise adherence in the Alberta Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Prevention (ALPHA) Trial. METHODS The ALPHA trial randomized 160 postmenopausal women in Calgary and Edmonton, Canada...

In the first two articles, the author reports on research exploring the attitudes towards, and knowledge and experience of, caring for patients with breast cancer of health visitors (HVs) acting as resource personnel for colleagues. The study also examined how they used their knowledge and what difference it made to patients' coping ability at various stages of the disease. The HVs underwent a ...

During the hot summer of 1948, 10 patients were admitted to the Babies' 1Ipspital in New York with heat prostration. No fewer than five of these children were cases of fibrocystic disease of the pancreas. Two further cases were discovered in subsequent summers. Reporting this interesting observation, Kessler and Andersen (1951) recorded that this special susceptibility to heat occurred in child...

background reduction mammaplasty (rm) is among the commonly performed procedures by plastic surgeons. occult breast cancers are rarely detected in these specimens. the purpose of the study was to describe histopathological evaluation of reduction mammaplasty specimens to detect occult breast cancer in southern iran. methods the histological diagnosis of 350 rm specimens from 175 patients to det...

Background: Throughout life period of female, breast is subjected to constant physical and physiological alterations that are related puberty, menstrual cycle, pregnancy, lactation, menopause. Benign diseases (BBD) constitute a heterogeneous group lesions which include developmental abnormalities, inflammatory granulomatous lesions, epithelial stromal proliferations, neoplasms.Methods: This pro...