Background: Breast cancer is in women with the highest incidence. Adriamycin-cyclophosphamide (AC) chemotherapy a breast therapy good efficacy, but its effectiveness has not been maximized. The okra fruit extract known to have anti-cancer effects from lectins, so it can be used as complementary increase minimal side effects.
 Methods: This study an experimental using female rats Sprague Da...

Whole-genome and transcriptome sequencing were performed to identify potential therapeutic strategies in the absence of viable treatment options for a patient initially diagnosed with vulvar adenocarcinoma. Genomic events were prioritized by comparison against variant distributions in the TCGA pan-cancer data set and complemented with detailed transcriptome sequencing and copy-number analysis. ...

Seven flavonoids isolated from chloroform, ethyl acetate and butanol extracts, obtained from the aerial parts of Retama sphaerocarpa, have been assessed for cytotoxic activity against three human cancer cell lines: TK-10 (renal adenocarcinoma), MCF-7 (breast adenocarcinoma) and UACC-62 (melanoma), using the SRB assay. All of them, extracts and flavonoids, were actives in, at least, one of the t...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common type of malignancy in the female population, rarely is reported by thromboembolic events during the course of the disease. In this case, we present a rare case of breast cancer presenting as deep vein thrombosis of the axillary vein. CASE PRESENTATION A 40-year- old female was admitted due to pain and swelling of her right arm and forearm of two mon...

Caffeine is an alkaloid present in a wide variety of plants. Currently the most consumed psychostimulant worldwide, its consumption associated with several health benefits, including modulation innate and adaptive immune response, reduction oxidative cellular stress, decreased incidence some cancers, breast cancer. Breast cancer common cause among women second leading death worldwide. The inter...

background: women with the medical history of breast cancer constitute the biggest group of patients who survived cancer. despite the high rate of mastectomy after breast cancer in iran only limited patients elect reconstruction surgery. the aim of our study was to evaluate the rate of tendency to breast reconstruction (br) surgery among women with breast cancer who had mastectomy but not under...

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background: breast cancer is the most common cancer found in women, and screening is the best way to make an early diagnosis. the aim of this study was to determine the rate of screening mammography and related variables in the mammography center of mousavi hospital, located in zanjan, iran. methods: this was a prospective descriptive study. study sample size was 526 women who were selected by ...

background: electrochemotherapy is a relatively new technique in the treatment of skin metastases that are not amenable to conventional therapy. its use in breast cancer is now established in many european centers. methods: published literature of electrochemotherapy in terms of its scientific basis, current clinical practice of breast cancer treatment providers, as well as the future direction...

background: much research has widely been conducted into thyroid hormones levels following radiotherapy for breast cancer. consequently, in this study, we evaluated to relate the rate of thyroid hormones levels with the dose distribution among breast cancer patients. material and methods: thirty patients were treated with 4-field breast cancer radiotherapy. the dose volume histograms, the volum...