background: mucositis is an important adverse effect of cancer treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of ice cubes on oral mucositis following head and neck radiotherapy. materials and methods: a randomized controlled trial was conducted on 40 head and neck cancer patients who underwent radiotherapy. the patients were randomly divided into two experimental and control gr...

background: acute radiation dermatitis is a very common side effect of radiation therapy in large numbers of cancers including breast cancer. despite high prevalence rate of acute radiation dermatitis and also wet desquamation, a few trials on prophylaxis of this complication using topical treatment have been conducted. despite effectiveness of topical corticosteroids in treatment of acute radi...

introduction accurate estimation of the absorbed dose in radiosensitive organs, located away from the target volume during radiotherapy, is one of the main reasons for the development of reference phantoms. the international commission on radiological protection (icrp) reference phantoms can provide a more realistic view of the human anatomy in comparison with the previously used mathematical p...

the objective of this study was to determine and compare cystatin c changes before and after radiotherapy in patients with stomach cancer who were candidate for radiotherapy. this study was conducted as a prospective cohort one. eighteen patients with definite diagnosis of stomach cancer under treatment by radiotherapy who presented to radiotherapy-oncology center of imam hossein hospital, tehr...

introduction xerostomia is one of side-effects of radiotherapy for head and neck cancers. no definitive method has been proposed for the treatment of this condition. however, pilocarpine is considered effective for the management of chronic xerostomia. the purpose of the present study was to assess the preventive effect of pilocarpine. materials and methods this study was performed on 34 patien...

background: much research has widely been conducted into thyroid hormones levels following radiotherapy for breast cancer. consequently, in this study, we evaluated to relate the rate of thyroid hormones levels with the dose distribution among breast cancer patients. material and methods: thirty patients were treated with 4-field breast cancer radiotherapy. the dose volume histograms, the volum...

background and aim: carcinoma of the uterine cervix is a significant cause of mortality because of malignancy in women. radiotherapy is a major treatment modality for invasive cervical cancer with good treatment outcome in early-stage patients. however, substantial treatment failures still occur in the advanced-stage patients. in this case report a long term follow up of a 58 years old woman wi...

in order to evaluate the results of abdominal radiation plus chemotherapy in cases with stage ii and iii of immunoproliferative small intestinal disease in comparison to chemotherapy alone, fifty-one patients referred to shiraz university of medical sciences' affiliated hospitals were studied between 1980 and 1994. out of them 38 patients who had an abdominal mass were gathered into two gr...

abstractwe are reporting a 43-year-old female breast cancer case with a solitary metastatic adenocarcinoma in clivus. this patient with a stage ii (t1n1m0) breast cancer history has been followed for 7 years.  modified radical mastectomy (mrm) and 6 courses chemotherapy with cmf (cyclophosphamide, metotrexate, 5fu) regimen were done for her at the time of diagnosis. also, she took tamoxifen twe...