Background: Ewing Sarcoma Family of Tumors (ESFTs) is the second most common primary tumors of bone in childhood. The decision regarding the optimal modality for achieving local tumor control remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to report the clinical features and outcome as well as reviewing risk factors in patients. Materials and Methods: This retrospective study included 75 ESFTs pat...

Abstract Multiple myeloma (MM) is a relatively rare malignant hematological disease, which is characterized by multicentric proliferation of plasma cells in the bone marrow. It is typically a disease of adults, with men being affected slightly more often than women. The median age at diagnosis is between 60 and 70 years, and it is rarely diagnosed before the age of 40.  Although any bone ...

introduction: delay in the diagnosis of tuberculosis increases the risk of death and enhances the transmission of disease in the community. this study aims to determine the patient and health service delay and factors affecting it in tuberculosis diagnosis. materials & methods: a cross-sectional survey that included all the public health centers was conducted in markazi province from march 2009...

Background: Transcription factors (TFs) play a key role in the development, therapy, and relapse of B-cell malignancies, such as B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (BCP-ALL). Given the essential function of Forkhead box protein P1 (FOXP1) transcription factor in the early development of B-cells, this study was designed to evaluate FOXP1 gene expression levels in pediatric BCP-ALL pat...

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 : this study retrospectively evaluated the prognostic factors and treatment outcome of patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer who received chemotherapy. methods :we reviewed records of hormone-refractory prostate cancer patients who received chemotherapy between december 2004 and may 2011 at the clinical oncology and nuclear medicine department, mansoura university and the ...

vitamin d deficiency is the most under-diagnosed medical condition in postmenopausal women. there are few epidemiologic studies on vitamin d status of postmenopausal women in iran. this study aimed to investigate the 25-hydroxyvitamin d levels in postmenopausal women living in tehran, capital of iran. in this cross sectional study, 110 women were selected via convenience sampling method from me...