with the success achieved in the interruption of the transmission of bilharziasis by snail control in most endemic areas of iran, mass-chemotherapy has been used extensively for reducing the number of cases in various villages. niridazol was chosen for this purpose after a screening of several drugs. eight thousand eight .l1undred seventy-four cases in 259 localities were treated from 1966 to t...

purpose: to introduce a case of neglected advanced retinoblastoma. case report: a 6 year old girl presented with a large orbital mass enlarging over her cheek on the right side. she underwent exenteration and histopathologic evaluation. a diagnosis of retinoblastoma was made with free margins. this case presents a rare form of retinoblastoma with extensive local progression but no metastasis or...

introduction: breast cancers are divided into at least 4 sub types on the basis of gene expression profiles and expression of receptors as measured by ihc (immunohistochemical). triple negative breast cancer (tnbc) is more chemosensitive yet, it is much harder to detect than other sub types. at present lack of highly effective therapeutic targets for tnbc, leaves standard chemotherapy, as the o...

conclusions this study demonstrates that using either honey or normal saline can reduce the rate and severity of chemotherapy induced mucositis. background oral mucositis is a frequent problem after high-dose chemotherapy which could impair patient’s quality of life, higher rates of infections, and delay in subsequent chemotherapy. objectives the present study was performed to assess the effect...

background: cancer is usually accompanied by considerable stress for the sufferer, and the stress has destructive effects on chemotherapy treatment process. therefore, the current research deals with the effect of yoga laughter on the cancer patients’ stress before chemotherapy. methods: in this research, as the first step, 37 cancer sufferers , who had been hospitalized in shohada tajrish hosp...

in this study we surveyed the average survival time of the treated hodgkin's lymphoma patients and also the side effects and malignancies occurring secondary to the treatment. this is a retrospective study of patients referring to ahwaz's shafa hospital in a period of 10 years diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma without any age restriction. after gathering all their data, we calculated their surv...

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background:chemotherapy-induced neutropenia as a major toxicity of systemic chemotherapy is commonly associated with substantial mortality and morbidity, and thus identifying its determinants is necessary. this study was undertaken to identify main risk factors of severe neutropenia following adjuvant chemotherapy treatment in a community-based population of patients with cancer in semnan, iran...

evaluation of the effects of educational package on controlling the complications of chemotherapeutic agents on symptom scales of quality of life in patients with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy    baghaei r [1] *, sharifi m [2] , mohammadpour y [3] , sheykhi n [4]     received: 9 jul , 2013 accepted: 14 sep , 2013    abstract  background & aims : today breast cancer is the most common ma...

in females, the most common cancer is breast carcinoma in which squamous cell carcinoma (scc) is a rare type of malignancy. histologically, infiltrating ductal carcinoma is the most common type and lobular, mucinous, and medullary types have lower incidence. pure scc of the breast can originate from the skin, nipple, or epithelium of a deep‑seated dermoid cyst or squamous metaplasia on chronic ...