many factors affect tobacco quit rate. in this study we investigated the abstinence rate after 5 years based on the age of smoking initiation. this pre-post field trial study was conducted on 398 smokers who participated voluntarily in a smoking cessation clinic in 2005. they were followed for 5 years and their success or failure in continuous abstinence was evaluated and recorded in 2010. thre...

aim: the purpose of this study was to compare the attention bias about tempting incentives related to opium materials in treated, addicted and normal people. duration of consumption and treating were also considered. method: in this causal-comparative study population was all addicted people who were referred to the rehabilitation offices, addiction treatment clinic, rebirthing centers and narc...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES HSP-90 is an intracellular protein that protects the cell from environmental stress situations. The overexpression of HSP-90 isoforms could serve as a mechanism of resistance to radiotherapy for tumour cells. We studied this effect in a sample of head and neck tumours. METHODS We included 87 patients diagnosed with oral cavity, oropharynx, larynx and hypopharynx tu...

OBJECTIVE To determinate the prognostic factors associated with the local relapse in patients treated for soft tissue sarcoma in extremities. METHODS Retrospectively, 30 patients were evaluated after being treated with surgical resection of soft tissue sarcoma located in extremities, with a outcome of 36,5 +/- 12,2 months. The prognostic factors evaluated were: age, sex, location, depth, loca...

To identify indications for external radiotherapy (EXT) and radioactive iodine (RAI) in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), we conducted a retrospective study of local and regional control in 1297 patients diagnosed with PTC in a tertiary referral center. Managed by surgery alone, patients with bilateral thyroidectomy had a lower rate of local relapse compared with lobectomy (P=0.02). EXT improv...

BACKGROUND Liposarcomas are the second most common type of soft tissue sarcomas, 30-50% of these are of myxoid subtype. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze the local control rate, the metastatic pattern and survival of patients in a consecutive single-institution series. METHODS From 1983 to 2015, 43 patients with myxoid liposarcoma of the extremities and trunk wall underwent r...

PURPOSE The risk of local and regional relapse associated with each breast cancer molecular subtype was determined in a large cohort of patients with breast cancer. Subtype assignment was accomplished using a validated six-marker immunohistochemical panel applied to tissue microarrays. PATIENTS AND METHODS Semiquantitative analysis of estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR), Ki-67,...