Background & Objectives: Colon cancer is currently of high incidence and mortality rate. Identifying the factors influencing its prognosis can be very beneficial to its clinical treatment. Recent studies have shown that lymph nodes ratio can be considered as an important prognostic factor. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effect of this factor on the prognosis of the ...

Introduction: Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a type of breast cancer that is negative for estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor, and HER2. This study aimed to evaluate the clinical outcomes and short-term prognosis of this type of cancer compared with other subtypes of breast cancer. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 108 women with invasive breast cancer. The patie...

to evaluate the effect of adding neoadjuvant chemotherapy to surgery and radiation therapy for locally advanced resectable oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma, 24 patients with t3 or t4a oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma were randomly assigned to surgery alone or docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fu (tpf) induction chemotherapy followed by surgery. all patients were planned to receive chemoradiothe...

Background & Aims: Osteosarcoma is one of the most prevalent malignant bone tumors . This study is designed to assess the prognostic effect of pathologic fracture and treatment options on survival of patients with osteosarcoma. Materials & Methods: In this study, prognosis of 106 patients with limb osteosarcoma, which were treated at three  hospitals in Tehran from April to August 2012 ...

the purpose of this study was to describe the feasibility of a combined preoperative chemoradiation program ib-iia, bulky and suspicious iib by radical surgery in patients with stage ib-iib cervical cancer. from september 1999 to april 2002, 30 patients with carcinoma of the cervix were treated with preoperative external beam radiotherapy of 45 gy in 5 weeks. patients received concurrent contin...

this study focused on triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) that is characterized by the lack of expression of estrogen receptor (er), progesterone receptor (pr), and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (her-2). the primary goal of this study was to describe the relation between triple-negative receptor status and survival. this is the first study about triple-negative breast cancer in our ...

hematopoietic cell transplantation (hct) is an accepted treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (aml) in first remission, the treatment of choice for chronic myeloid leukemia (cml) and high risk groups of all who relapse with conventional chemotherapy. we assessed results of hct for pediatric leukemia in our center. a total of 92 children, 63 with diagnose of aml, 23 with all and 6 with cml receiv...