Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women and the earlier it is diagnosed, the easier it is to treat. The most common way to diagnose breast cancer is mammography. Mammography is a simple chest x-ray and a tool for early detection of non-palpable breast cancers and tumors. However, due to some limitations of this method such as low sensitivity especially in dense breasts, other method...

background: quality of life (qol) is becoming an important indicator of treatment efficacy in patients with breast cancer. most previous studies have compared patients' qol following breast conserving surgery (bcs) and mastectomy with or without reconstruction. our aim was to assess the impact of bcs versus oncoplastic breast surgery (obs). methods: selection of patients for bcs or obs was perf...

Bacground: The goal of this study was to evaluate the fine needle aspiration (FNA) preoperatively together with Touch Print, Crush Print, frozen section and pathologic methods to reach a diagnosis for patients with breast and axillary masses. Methods: This study was conducted on 107 patients, and included 111 samples of breast and 43 of axillary masses taken at surgery. Data on epidemiological ...

Introduction: The received dose to the surface of tumor bed is one of the main issues in beast intraopeative radiotherapy (IORT). Totally, the administered dose to the surface is usually lower than that of radiotherapy reference point (distal end of tumor bed). Employing a buildup bolus can effectively increase the surface dose and therefore, eliminate such created cold points ...

background:estrogens play a substantial role in the proliferation, progression and treatment of breast cancer by binding with two estrogen receptors, alpha and beta (erα and erβ). resistance to endocrine therapy is a major problem in the treatment of breast cancers and, in some cases, may be related to loss of er gene expression. we have already showed that erα methylation occurs in high freque...

Page Introduction . 1 Quality of proteins as a factor in nutrition 2 Quantity of proteins in foods and feeds 8 Estimation of protein in foods and feeds , 8 Nonprotein nitrogen in foods 4 Nitrogen content of different proteins ._. 5 Errors arising from tlie use of wrong conversion factors 7 Chemical composition of plant proteins in relation to the plant environment 7 Page Proteins of cereal grai...

breast reconstruction (br) surgery is not common for the treatment of breast cancer in low- and middle-income countries, including iran. we evaluated the quality of life (qol) in iranian breast cancer patients who underwent br at the cancer institute of iran. we compared patients who had br with breast cancer patients who had a radical mastectomy as the control group, matched for age, and time ...