BACKGROUND Adults over age 40 are increasing their use of email and social media, raising interest in use of peer-to-peer Internet-based messaging to promote cancer screening. OBJECTIVE The objective of our study was to assess current practices and attitudes toward use of email and other e-communication for peer-to-peer dialogues on cancer screening. METHODS We conducted in-person interview...

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BACKGROUND The large and growing number of published studies, and their increasing rate of publication, makes the task of identifying relevant studies in an unbiased way for inclusion in systematic reviews both complex and time consuming. Text mining has been offered as a potential solution: through automating some of the screening process, reviewer time can be saved. The evidence base around t...

Introduction: Climate change and hot processes in the workplaces has led to an increase in the effects of heat stress on employed people, which has become a major concern, especially in tropical and subtropical countries. Early detection of biomarkers in induction of heat stress-related DNA damage can be used in the identification and evaluation of health and safety, including occupational heal...

background: breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. screening can reduce the rate of cancer and mortality. the aim of this study is description of screening programs about breast masses with clinical and para clinical examination. methods: this is a descriptive study on 952 women who had volunteered or were referred to tabriz behbood hospital during one-year period. data was collected...

background: colorectal cancer (crc) is the third most common malignancy in iran. limited data are available on knowledge and barriers in regard to crc and screening tests in iran. the aim of  the study was to characterize knowledge, practice, and barriers toward crc and its screening tests among an iranian at‑risk population. methods: this cross‑sectional study was conducted with participation ...

background and objectives: beta-thalassemia continues to be a cause of significant burden to the society particularly in the poorer developing countries. although sophisticated methods of screening have become available, a hunt for a cheap, rapid, objective screening method still remains elusive. thus, the objectives are to study the validity of naked-eye-single-tube-osmotic-fragility-test (nes...

persian natural language processing (nlp) researchers have many limitations to access linguistic tools which are suitable for text processing. therefore, researchin persian text processing is very limited. since dataset is an important requirement for experiments and their evaluation, we aimed to create appropriate corpora for information retrieval and natural language processing in persian. th...