background: we conducted a retrospective analysis to evaluate the impact of omission of supraclavicular radiotherapy on supraclavicular failure rate and treatment outcomes in n1 breast cancer patients with evaluation of prognostic factors that affected supraclavicular recurrence free survival. methods: this study analyzed the medical records of 109 patients with n1 breast cancer. all patients u...

background ewing’s sarcoma family is a group of small round cells tumors. the aim of this study is to evaluate clinicopathologic characteristics and outcome of ewing’s sarcoma in children and adolescents in yazd, iran. materials and methods all patients under 19 years with documented pathology of ewing’s sarcoma family tumor who referred to shahid ramazanzadeh radiotherapy center between 2002 t...

background : this study compared the efficacy of two commonly used fractionation schedules for palliative whole brain irradiation in patients with brain metastases, and assessed the association of the radiotherapy therapy oncology group (rtog) recursive partitioning analysis for brain metastases (rpa) to survival with each schedule. methods : patients with multiple (more than three) brain metas...

Objective: Cardiac tamponade is a life-threatening clinical entity that requires an emergency treatment. Cardiac tamponade can be caused both by benign and malignant diseases. A variety of methods have been described for the treatment of these cases from needle-guided pericardiocentesis, balloon-based techniques to surgical pericardiotomy. The Authors report their experience in...

Background Ewing’s sarcoma family is a group of small round cells tumors. The aim of this study is to evaluate clinicopathologic characteristics and outcome of Ewing’s sarcoma in children and adolescents in Yazd, Iran. Materials and Methods All patients under 19 years with documented pathology of Ewing’s sarcoma family tumor who referred to Shahid Ramazanzadeh Radiotherapy center between 2...