background: contralateral axillary metastasis (cam) is a rare entity in patients with breast cancer which can occur during the primary breast cancer or its follow-up. different treatment modalities include surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, but there is no agreement on them. in our review, we found 12 series with available data, 82 patients with synchronous or metachronous contralateral a...

background: il-10 is an anti-inflammatory cytokine which is involved in tumorigenesis. over production of il-10 and elevated number of il-10 generating mononuclear cells in breast tumor tissue has already been shown. objective: to determine the association of il-10 promoter polymorphisms with increased risk of breast cancer and its association with breast cancer prognostic factors. methods: per...

breast cancer is the most common cancer in women except skin cancer. the common metastatic sites include lymph node, lung, liver and bone. however, metastasis to the bladder is extremely rare. to our knowledge, this is the first case of breast cancer metastasis to urinary bladder in jordan which is reported. nine years after the initial diagnosis of lobular breast carcinoma, the patient suffere...

male breast cancer is a rare disease with an increasing trend. due to limited information especially about the genetic basis of the disease in iran and the lower age of its onset, the disease requires more attention. the aim of this study was to screen the male patients with breast cancer for brca mutations as well as tissue markers of estrogen receptor (er), progesterone receptor (pr), human e...

background: the study aimed to examine the association between human leukocyte antigen (hla) class ii allele frequencies and breast cancer in iranian women. methods: a total of 100 patients with pathologically proven breast cancer who referred to cancer institute were randomly selected and compared with a group of age matched healthy blood donors (n = 80). hla class ii alleles were determined b...

objective the mortality of patients with locally advanced triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) is high, and pathological complete response (pcr) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (nac) is associated with improved prognosis. this retrospective study was designed and powered to investigate the ability of 18f-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (fdg-pet/ct) to predict pat...

background: triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) carries a poor prognosis and therapeutic options are limited to date. the aim of this study was to investigate to what extent the epidermal growth factor receptor (egfr), vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (vegfr2), hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (hif-1α) and insulin-like growth factor-1 receptor (igf-1r) are expressed in tnbc and to...

background: because of the reported poor prognosis and absence of effective and specific therapeutic approaches, triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) tumors have remained as an important area of investigations for clinicians and researchers. the aim of this study was to determine the clinical, pathological, histological, prognostic features, and outcome associated with this type of breast cance...

the present research is a field study in order to investigate scale and ways of doing breast self examination (bse). 270 nurses employed by the medical sciences university’s hospitals related to the ministry of health, and medical education in city of tehran are selected and involved in research on the basis of simple random sampling. the data collection tool was a protrayed questionnaire which...