Background & Objective:the present study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of early, advanced cancer cervix and its recurrence and role of chemotherapy in locally advanced cancer cervix. Material and Methods: The present study was conducted in the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Pathology and Radiotherapy and the specimens examined in the Department of Pathol...

 ABSTRACT Carcinoma of the cervix is a common neoplasm and accounts for a considerable number of cervical diseases that lead to death in developing countries. In these countries early detection and improved methods of treatment have resulted in comparatively better control of the cancer and long survival however, invasive and metastatic disease still occurs. The authors present the case report ...

synchronous cancer is referred to two or more histological distinct malignancies diagnosed during the same hospital admission. globally more than 1 million people get colorectal cancer yearly resulting in about 0.5 million deaths. vulvar cancer is the fourth most common gynecologic cancer (following the corpus uterine cancer, cancer of ovary and cervix) and comprises only 4 percent of malignanc...

background & objectives: tumor diathesis (td) is defined as granular proteinaceous precipitates on slide surface of cytologic smears. it is found in the background of smears of invasive carcinoma but not in all cases. the aim of present study was to determine the prevalence of td in cervicovaginal smears from patients with uterine cervix carcinoma. methods: cytological smears and histologi...

SUMMARY The aim of this survey is to measure the knowledge and behavior of married women who attended to the health centers in southern part of Tehran about the cancer of uterine cervix and Pap Smear test. The selection of region 11 from southern part of Tehran and 350 married women in this region based on random sampling technique. The findings and results of this survey showed that: the maj...

background and objective: to estimate the risk of human papilloma virus (hpv) infection for cervical malignancies, we conducted a case-control study in southern iran (hormozgan province). materials and methods: for this purpose,52 paraffin embedded blocks with exact diagnosis of cervical carcinoma(50 carcinomas and 2 carcinomas in situ) from 2001 to 2006 and 52 praffin embedded blocks of cervic...

background: the goals of the present research were to investigate the rectal dose during four chosen techniques of cervical cancer radiotherapy and to examine how accurately the treatment planning represents dose measurements, and it’s practicality for routine use as well as, to determine the homogeneity of dose in tumor volume. materials and methods: the study was carried out using a nepton 10...