objectives to assess the diagnostic accuracy of pet-mri and mri alone for the detection of local recurrences of soft tissue sarcomas (sts) after initial surgical resection of the primary tumors. methods a total of 41 patients with a clinically suspected tumor relapse of sts underwent an 18f-fdg- pet-mri examination for assessment of local recurrence. two experienced physicians interpreted the m...

PURPOSE Several risk factors for local recurrence of breast cancer after breast-conserving therapy (BCT) have been identified. The identification of additional risk factors would be very useful in guiding optimal therapy and also in improving understanding of the mechanisms underlying local recurrence. We used cDNA microarray analysis to identify gene expression profiles associated with local r...

Soft tissue sarcomas have a mortality rate of 40% to 60%, with local recurrence being a poor prognostic factor for overall survival. Three-percent nondiluted hydrogen peroxide is hypothesized to be an effective local adjuvant. The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for local recurrence in high-grade soft tissue sarcomas and to determine whether using hydrogen peroxide as a local...

Local recurrence appears as one of the main causes for treatment failure and has a significant negative impact on the prognosis of patients of OSCC. Despite these observations, many studies evaluate biomarkers that could identify patients at highest risk of local recurrence [4,5]. Therefore, these markers are not commonly reassessed in the local recurrence, especially in those cases in which th...

Background & Aims: Osteosarcoma is one of the most prevalent malignant bone tumors . This study is designed to assess the prognostic effect of pathologic fracture and treatment options on survival of patients with osteosarcoma. Materials & Methods: In this study, prognosis of 106 patients with limb osteosarcoma, which were treated at three  hospitals in Tehran from April to August 2012 ...

BACKGROUND Our aim was to determine the incidence of local control in patients with selected squamous carcinoma of the vallecula treated with horizontal supraglottic laryngectomy; to analyze the consequences of local recurrence in terms of nodal recurrence, distant metastasis, survival, causes of death, overall local control, and laryngeal preservation; and to identify any clinical factors pred...