objective: breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the world. early diagnosis of this cancer is a key element for its treatment. one of the approaches for diagnosis of breast cancer is detection of its tumour-associated markers. hence, her2 has been the main focus of the researches in the field. materials and methods: for diagnosis of her2 overexpression, monoclonal antibodies (m...

the value of clinical use of tumor markers cea and ca15-3 for early detection of recurrent breast cancer still is a controversial. this study was investigated relationship between tumor markers cea and ca15-3 and recurrence breast cancer. data regarding 147 women who had breast cancer were entered into the study. patients were reviewed for 120 months after treatment. maximum time for relapse wa...

breast conservation surgery combined with radiation therapy is now an accepted option for the treatment of early breast cancer. so we decided to evaluate the results of such treatment in our first group of patients treated by this method. from 1992 to 1996 , one hundred patients with stage i and ii breast cancer treated with breast conservative surgery (lumpectomy or quadrantectomy). were irrad...

Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women. Screening mammography is a low‑dose X‑ray examination of breasts, which is conducted to detect breast cancer at early stages when the cancerous tumor is too small to be felt as a lump. Screening mammography is conducted for women with no symptoms of breast cancer, for early detection of cancer when the cancer is most treatable an...

background: spontaneous preterm labor is one of the common obstetrics problems causing several physical, psychological and economical outcomes. although due to these outcomes and the efficacy of cares for decreasing them, preterm labor screening is cost-effective and it is still one of the challenging issues in obstetrics. objective: in this study preterm labor screening by using cervical trans...

abstract background: breast cancer as a most common organ cancer in women is the first cause of death among women with 40-45 years old. the only way to control this disease is early detection that it can be treated in about 90% of women with breast cancer. the best way for early detection of breast cancer is screening, and the best accessible way is breast self examination (bse). considering th...