Background: Li-Fraumeni syndrome (LFS) is one of the most serious hereditary cancer syndromes with a high risk of malignancy in childhood. This syndrome is an autosomal dominant cancer predisposing syndrome due to a germline mutation in the TP53 tumor suppressor gene.   Methods: In this study, a representative family case of Li-Fraumeni syndrome is described. The proband of this family ...

The removal or repair of DNA damage has a key role in protecting the genome of the cell from the insults of cancer-causing agents. This was originally demonstrated in individuals with the rare genetic disease xeroderma pigmentosum, the paradigm of cancer genes, and subsequently in the relationship between mismatch repair and colon cancer. Recent reports suggest that individuals with less dramat...

colon cancer is cancer of the large intestine (colon), the lower part of digestive system and the third most common cancer in men and the second most common cancer in women worldwide. genetic background is thought to play a role in modulating individual risk to this cancer. many studies support an association for insulin pathway gene polymorphisms and   the regulation of tumor cell biology in c...

The removal or repair of DNA damage has a key role in protecting the genome of the cell from the insults of cancer-causing agents. This was originally demonstrated in individuals with the rare genetic disease xeroderma pigmentosum, the paradigm of cancer genes, and subsequently in the relationship between mismatch repair and colon cancer. Recent re ports suggest that individuals with less drama...

Microarray data profiles gene expression on a whole genome scale, and provides a good way to study associations between gene expression and occurrence or progression of cancer disease. Many researchers realized that microarray data is useful to predict cancer cases. However, the high dimension of gene expressions, which is significantly larger than the sample size, makes this task very difficul...

Background: Prostate cancer is considered as the second leading cause of cancer related death in men worldwide and the third frequent cancer among Iranian men. Despite the use of PSA as the only biomarker for early diagnosis of prostate cancer, its application in clinical settings is under debate. Therefore, the introduction of new molecular markers for early detection of prostate cancer is nee...

Although ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecologic malignancy in women, little is known about how the cancer initiates and metastasizes. In the last decade, new evidence has challenged the dogma that the ovary is the main source of this cancer. The fallopian tube has been proposed instead as the primary origin of high-grade serous ovarian cancer, the subtype causing 70% of ovarian cancer de...

male breast cancer is a rare disease with an increasing trend. due to limited information especially about the genetic basis of the disease in iran and the lower age of its onset, the disease requires more attention. the aim of this study was to screen the male patients with breast cancer for brca mutations as well as tissue markers of estrogen receptor (er), progesterone receptor (pr), human e...

Cancer results due to mutations that occur within our genetic material. A small proportion of our genes are directly involved in maintaining normal cell growth; mutations that occur within these genes can eventually lead to cancer. Stevenson et al. was the first to discover the various reasons for the occurrence and the prevalence of cancer with the X-Chromosomal disorders. Our research focused...