background: breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. screening can reduce the rate of cancer and mortality. the aim of this study is description of screening programs about breast masses with clinical and para clinical examination. methods: this is a descriptive study on 952 women who had volunteered or were referred to tabriz behbood hospital during one-year period. data was collected...

human milk contains all of the constituents that are required for the optimal growth and development of a neonate. it supports the development of brain, immune, and physiological systems. this study aimed to consider the significance of breast milk in preventing oxidative stress by comparing total antioxidant capacity (tac) in breast and formula milk for premature infants, demonstrating the rel...

nipple discharge (nd) can be the earliest presenting symptom of breast cancer. we hereby present two cases of breast cancer with no palpable mass manifesting as isolated nd, which was whitish in color. in both cases, cytology of the discharge revealed highly pleomorphic cells indicating a high grade malignancy. mammography showed diffuse, extensive microcalcifications. simple mastectomy with ax...

background: cylindroma of the breast is a rarely described tumor that closely resembles its dermal counterpart. case presentation: we report a case of a 55-year-old woman with an incidental finding of a left breast mass on screening mammography. on histologic examination, the tumor was found to be consistent with cylindroma of the breast. conclusion: generally considered to be a benign lesion, ...

introduction in recent years methods based on radio frequency waves have been used for detecting breast cancer. using theses waves leads to better results in early detection of breast cancer comparing with conventional mammography which has been used during several years. materials and methods in this paper, a new method is introduced for detection of backscattered signals which are received by...

breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women. the important key to treat the breast cancer is early detection of it because according to many pathological studies more than 80% of all abnormalities are still benign at primary stages; so in recent years, many studies and extensive research done to early detection of breast cancer with higher precision and accuracy.infra-red breast...

background: breast cancer is the malignancy in humans and other mammals. several risk factors are involved in their appearance such as higher hormone levels and obesity. identification of a mouse mammary tumor virus supports a viral etiology for breast tumors in animals. viruses have been implicated in the development of various cancers, but viral induction for formation breast cancer is contro...

breast cancer affects iranian women at least one decade younger than their counterparts in othercountries and the incidence of breast fibroadenoma is growing in the last two decades in tehran. thisstudy aimed to compare the ahr levels in premenopausal breast cancer and breast fibroadnemo withappropriate normal groups. possible associations of ahr with lifestyle and reproductive risk factorsand ...

objective(s):leptin receptor (lepr) is a member of the class i cytokine receptor super-family that is known implicated in the initiation and progression of breast cancer. we have investigated the effect of q223r polymorphism on the breast cancer susceptibly in a sample of iranian subjects. materials and methods:we utilized a polymerase chain reaction (pcr) restriction fragment length polymorphi...

background : magnetic resonance imaging of the breast is becoming a useful adjunct to mammography and sonography for the detection of breast lesions. however, it is not yet accepted as a routine examination for all breast cancer patients due to the lack of data regarding whether breast magnetic resonance imaging impacts recurrence or survival. this trial examines the use of magnetic resonance i...