this study was carried out to analyze certain epidemiological variations in iranian patients with colorectal cancer. (crc): from march 1981 up to march 1993, 103 patients were analyzed retrospectively for age, gender, marital state, job, nutritional habits, presenting symptoms and histopathological features. most of the patients with colorectal cancer were male, age range 20-75 (mean 56), 25.4 ...

Background and Objective: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most prevalent malignancies in the world. The early detection of CRC is not only a simple process, but it is also the key to its treatment. Given that data mining algorithms could be potentially useful in cancer prognosis, diagnosis, and treatment, the main focus of this study is to measure the performance of some data mining class...

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is amongst the most widespread cancers and is a most common cause of cancer associated mortality universally. Since previous decades, it has been cleared that CRC develops owing to the buildup of a series of genetic and epigenetic changes in the normal colonic epithelium. Regardless of the current development in surgery and therapies, overall survival of end stage CRC pa...

One of the essential protection mechanisms of immune system is Treg cells which play an important role in maintenance ofimmune homeostasis. However, they may also inhibit immune functions against tumor cells. It has been reported that Treg cellsare increased in patients suffering from different types of cancer. Increased number of Treg cells has been shown in tumor lymphnodes, peripheral blood,...

aim : the aim of this study was to provide quantitative estimations of the burden of death in term of years of life lost (yll) due to colorectal cancer (crc) in iran and a temporal trend analysis. background : colorectal cancer is the third most common cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. yll is a tool for quantifying the burden of disease according to mortality rates. the aim of this s...

aim : leptin is a 16 kda polypeptide hormone which secreted by adipose tissue and has an important role in energy balance, insulin pathway and inflammation, because of that it may play an important role in colorectal cancer (crc). leptin exerts its effect through the leptin receptor (lepr) a member of the class i cytokine receptor family. background : we have investigated whether glutamine to a...