Early detection of breast cancer is known to be a key factor in the successful treatment of the disease. Here, we present a detection technique complementary to the currently used modalities (primarily mammography, ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging). Our time-domain breast cancer detection system transmits microwave-range pulses into the breast and records the scattering off of the brea...

Good primary care now includes routine screening for breast cancer among appropriate age-groups of women patients. Virtually all expert groups recommend breast cancer screening. During the past several decades, these recommendations have been translated into increasingly higher percentages of women getting breast cancer screening. 1-3 By 1995, a national study found that 70% of women aged 40 ye...

Aim: Initial staging in breast cancer is considered as locoregional and systemic disease. Distant metastases is rarely expected in early stage breast cancer patients. Although, we observed that, stage is not as clinically expected after staging with FDG PET-CT both in early and advanced stage breast cancer. Our main objective was to test the hypothesis by comparing the distant metastases rate o...

OBJECTIVE Wheelchair athletes often select a percentage of their top speed (%TS) to determine training intensity. The aim of the study was to determine whether choosing a %TS corresponds to the physiological concept of relative exercise intensity (% peak oxygen uptake: %VO2 peak) and to examine selected physiological and metabolic responses of a group of wheelchair athletes to 60 minutes' exerc...

CONTEXT Few studies have compared patterns of care in health maintenance organization (HMO) and fee-for-service (FFS) settings. OBJECTIVE To examine breast cancer stage at diagnosis and, for those at an early stage, treatment patterns for elderly women in HMO and FFS settings. DESIGN Cancer registry data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program linked to Medicare ...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of leucine (Leu) supplementation on performance and carcass traits broilers along with re-evaluation standardized ileal digestible (SID) Leu requirement broiler chicks days 0-14. Birds were fed seven experimental diets SID levels 16.3 (basal), 17.3, 18.3, 19.3, 20.3, 21.3, 22.3 g/kg. Some 280 male randomly assigned dietary treatments in a...

breast cancer is the most common cancer occurring among women. the mortality rate of breast cancer can be reduced by regular breast cancer screening program. this study was carried out to identify the knowledge and practice of women about breast cancer screening in zahedan, southeast of iran. in this cross- sectional study, 384 women were selected as an improbability sample of women referring t...