background : breast cancer is a complicated disease and has various clinical manifestations and prognosis. the aim of this study is to make a breast cancer model suitable for basic, preclinical and clinical studies. materials and methods: five virgin bulb/c mice aged 6 weeks and spontaneous murine mammary adenocarcinoma cells (mmac) were used. after anesthesia induction, 1-3 million of mmacs we...

background: emotional intelligence (eq) is positively associated with mental health and it can have a crucial role in mental disorder therapy by suitable coping mechanisms. the present study aimed to evaluate the relationship of eq with anxiety and depression among the women with breast cancer. subjects and methods: during 2013 and in a cross-sectional study, 98 breast cancer patients (14 to 21...

recent studies have indicated the profound  anti-tumor activity of artemisinin's compounds,  among  which;  arteether  is an  oil-soluble derivative of  artemisinin with an endoperoxide bridge that can induce apoptosis in tumor cells but not in the normal cells. an experiment was carried out on tumor-bearing balb/c mice to estimate the effects of arteether  on  tumor  growth  and  antitumor  im...

treatment related acute myeloid leukemia (t-aml) is well documented phenomenon after chemotherapy. in this subgroup of patients acute promyelocytic leukemia (apml) due to delayed complication of using anthracycline is very rare occurrence. very few cases are reported in world literature. we are reporting a rare case of occurrence of t-apml in cured breast cancer patient treated with doxorubicin...

conclusions exercise can improve anthropometric variables, body composition and vo2 peak and reduce some inflammatory markers in breast cancer survivors. objectives the current study aimed to investigate the effect of eight weeks of training on il-6, tnf-α and hcrp in postmenopausal breast cancer survivors. patients and methods twenty-seven postmenopausal breast cancer survivors with mean age o...

patients and methods in this qualitative study, 19 women with breast cancer were interviewed regarding their empowerment needs using the individual open-ended and, in-depth interviews and then the qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis. background due to the increasing number of women suffering from breast cancer worldwide, promoting the empowerment of these patients is an impo...

background breast cancer (bc) is the most common cancer in iranian women. studying the mortality statistics is important to monitor the effects of screening programs or the influence of earlier diagnosis on the burden of this chronic disease. misclassification is still a problem in the iranian death registry data and about 20% of death statistics are recorded in misclassified categories. object...

despite a lot of research, the etiology and progression of breast cancer remain incompletely understood. recently, human cytomegalovirus (hcmv) was reported as a risk factor for breast cancer. the aim of this study was to know whether breast cancer could be caused by cytomegalovirus or not? in this experiment seventeen samples of razi/a mice with spontaneous breast cancer were being gathered fr...

background and objective: determination of hormone receptor status in the management of breast cancer is well-established. the aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of androgen receptor (ar) expression in invasive ductal carcinoma of breast. materials and methods: for this purpose, 55 cases of invasive ductal breast carcinoma were examined using a monoclonal antibody against ar on for...

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