Breast cancer with stomach metastasis rare with an incidence of 1% or less among metastatic breast cancer patients. We experienced a case of breast cancer metastasizing to the stomach in 65-year-old female patient. She experienced dyspepsia and poor oral intake before visiting the clinic. Diffuse infiltration with nodular mucosal thickening of the stomach wall was observed, suggesting advanced ...

background: stomach cancer has the highest prevalence of gastrointestinal cancer in iran. therefore, the aim of this study was mapping stomach cancer rate in iran using area-to-area poisson kriging.   methods: data of 336 cities in iran was analyzed that was gathered by the ministry of health and medical education (in the non-infectious diseases management center) from 2003 to 2007. area-to-are...

Cancer immunotherapy is a relatively new and promising method of treating neoplasms. Understanding the antigen-directed cytotoxicity T-lymphocytes has become one central directions in involving immune system fight against cancer. Basic research this area led to invention checkpoint inhibitors, adoptive T-cell therapy, cancer vaccines. Cytokines can enhance action for their ability directly stim...

We report 2 cases of small cell carcinoma (SmCC) of the stomach with distant metastasis that were treated with the same chemotherapeutic regimens as used to treat small cell lung cancer. Although the mean survival of patients with SmCC of the stomach is reported to be only 7 months, our patients survived for 15 and 14 months, respectively. In our experience, these chemotherapeutic regimens migh...

various substances in cigarette smoke including nicotine have been shown to promote/induce cancer cell proliferation. since cotinine has a longer half life and stability in the blood, it has become the preferred biomarker for cigarette smoking exposure. seventy-three gastric cancer patients were included in this study. the tumor tissues were stained with h and e for pathological evaluation. the...

BACKGROUND The therapeutic effect of herbal materials in inhibition of cancer cell growth was shown. This study investigates the effect of fig tree latex (Ficus carica) on stomach cancer line. METHODS The in vitro effect of different doses of fig tree latex on stomach cancer cell line and the peripheral blood mononuclear cells was evaluated after 72 hours. RESULTS Fig tree latex could inhib...

background: cancer is the third cause of death in iran and its incidence is rising alarmingly. however, a study reported that kohgilooyeh and boyerahmad (a small province in iran) seems to have substantially lower incidence rate of cancer compared to the other parts of the country. this study is conducted to investigate the epidemiological features of cancer regarding three key factors (sex, ag...

breathomics is the metabolomics study of exhaled air. it is a powerful emerging metabolomics research field that mainly focuses onhealth-related volatile organic compounds (vocs). since the quantity of these compounds varies with health status, breathomics assuresto deliver noninvasive diagnostic tools. thus, the main aim of breathomics is to discover patterns of vocs related to abnormal metabo...