Background: Due to limited clinical data in pediatric-type sarcomas (rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, PNET, and desmoplastic small round-cell tumor), the aim of this study was to evaluate the demographic characteristics and identifying prognostic factors for survival. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 110 patients with pediatric-type sarcomas. Overall and disease free surviva...

background:  allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-hsct) is used as treatment of choice for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (aml). we aimed to evaluate the prognostic factors in 2-year overall survival of patients with non-m3 aml who underwent allogenic hsct. methods: this is a cross sectional retrospective study. demographic data and study of variables such as age, sex,...

background breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. based on the latest iranian national cancer department report, the total number of women registered with breast cancer was 6976 cases during 2007. five year survival is one of the indicators used for evaluation of the quality for care to different types of malignancies including breast cancer. objectives the aim of this s...

Background:  Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (allo-HSCT) is used as treatment of choice for patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). We aimed to evaluate the prognostic factors in 2-year overall survival of patients with non-M3 AML who underwent allogenic HSCT. Methods: This is a Cross sectional retrospective study. Demographic data and study of variables such as age...

the key to successful long-term peritoneal dialysis (pd) is permanent and safe access to peritoneal cavity. the two most commonly used tenckoff catheters for pd are the straight and coiled catheters. the present study was undertaken to assess the catheter survival, catheter associated infections, and all cause mortality and to compare the straight with coiled catheters in pd. during april 1997-...

purpose : to describe the survival characteristics and prognostic factors of patients with retinoblastoma in a referral center in iran methods : from medical records, we retrospectively analyzed the data of 139 consecutive children diagnosed in our hospital between 1991 and 2001 as having retinoblastoma. information on gender, laterality, age at diagnosis, presenting signs, tumor staging, treat...

background : we conducted a retrospective analysis to investigate the clinical outcome of combined modality therapy using multiagent chemotherapy, nephrectomy, and radiotherapy in treatment of children with wilms' tumor. methods : this study was conducted on 91 cases of newly diagnosed wilms' tumor from january 2001 until february 2012. patients were categorized into two groups according to tre...

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...

The key to successful long-term peritoneal dialysis (PD) is permanent and safe access to peritoneal cavity. The two most commonly used Tenckoff catheters for PD are the straight and coiled catheters. The present study was undertaken to assess the catheter survival, catheter associated infections, and all cause mortality and to compare the straight with coiled catheters in PD. During April 1997-...

background: high-grade astrocytoma (grade 4) or glioblastoma multiforme (gbm) are deadly brain tumors. new therapies attempt to increase lifetime and quality of life in patients with malignant astrocytoma. o6-methylguanine-dna methyltransferase (mgmt) enzyme expression may be effective in prognosis and response to treatment of these patients. the aim of this study was assessment of mgmt enzyme ...