Introduction: The aim of this study was to predict cancer survival according to the role of demographic determinants, psychological factors and tumor grade. Methods: In this cross-sectional retrospective study, 350 patients with blood, breast, prostate, lung, stomach and colon cancers (173 patients with cancer survival for more than 2 years and 177 patients with cancer survival for 2 years o...

 Abstract Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the various aspects of illness perceptions about breast cancer in affected patients. Methods: A cross-sectional study enrolled 140 patients with breast cancer in their chemotherapy period within 14 months. The revised Illness Perception Questionnaire (revised IPQ) was used to assess the disease representations of breast cancer. The ...

vancomycin is a a glycopeptide antibiotic with bacetiocidal effects on gram positive bacteria by interfering with cell wall synthesis. the necessity for monitoring of serum vancomycin concentrations (svcs) has been recently noticed at many institutions because of concerns for its nephrotoxicity. we aimed to describe the svcs monitoring in pediatric patients, in an effort to determine subtherape...

introduction: colorectal cancer is the most common cancer of the alimentary system. in women, it is the second leading cause of mortality after breast cancer while in men, it is the third leading cause of death after lung and prostate carcinoma. prevalence is more in population older than 50 years and increases in older people. therefore, best treatment and prognosis is early diagnosis of disea...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the compare of perceived stress and feeling lonely in breast cancer patients and normal individuals. Methods: This research is causal-comparative. The population consist of all patients with breast cancer in hospitals of Ardebil. 60  patients and 60  normal individuals were selected with sampling method. The s...

background: lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death worldwide with an annual mortality rate of more than 1.3 million worldwide. we aimed to analyze the clinicopathological features of patients with non-small-cell lung cancer (nsclc) in west of iran. methods: 64 patients with nsclc who referred to our clinic were analyzed. sex, age, histopathology, location of the tumor, treatment, ...

objectives: we aimed to assess psychological stress status among iranian patients with cancer compared with non-cancer individuals. patients and methods: in a case-control study one hundred consecutive cancer patients who referred to fatemieh hospital in semnan, iran (regardless of the type of cancer and its stage) were enrolled. one hundred matched non-cancer individuals were selected as contr...

Introduction: There is a lack of information on the extent of dependency between chronic diseases and the survival rate of breast cancer. Until date, none of the models proposed has determined the impact of chronic diseases on breast cancer survival. This study, therefore, aimed to investigate the impacts of chronic diseases such as diabetes, blood pressure, and endocrine di...

Introduction: There is a lack of information on the extent of dependency between chronic diseases and the survival rate of breast cancer. Until date, none of the models proposed has determined the impact of chronic diseases on breast cancer survival. This study, therefore, aimed to investigate the impacts of chronic diseases such as diabetes, blood pressure, and endocrine di...