abstract background: breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among iranian women, and is the fifth cause of cancer-related death in iran. most studies have reported an overall excess of 20–30% chance for a second primary cancer to develop in individuals with a first breast cancer. in this study, we evaluated different factors might have a role in increasing the incidence of a second malignan...

The past few decades have witnessed an increase in the prevalence of IgE-mediated food allergy (FA). For prevention strategies to be effective, we need to understand the causative factors underpinning this rise. Genetic factors are clearly important in the development of FA, but given the dramatic increase in prevalence over a short period of human evolution, it is unlikely that FA arises throu...

Sternal tumors are very rare and challenging. Secondary sternal tumors are more common than primary tumors. These tumors are usually refractory to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and surgery is the best choice for their treatment. In this study, we reported the collected data of 15 patients with primary and secondary tumors of the sternum, histological type, as well as kind of resection and reco...

Morphometric analysis is mathematical evaluation and measurement of the earth’s shape, surface its landform’s dimension. Dhund river basin in Jaipur district Rajasthan India has been carried out to evaluate various morphometric parameters following linear, areal relief aspects. The drainage basin, which covers a total area about 1828 km2 lies eastern part with maximum minimum elevation 603 m 21...

INTRODUCTION The study of marine ecosystems has become a hot research topic in recent times. In fact, the number of manuscripts including the words “marine ecosystems” published since 1970 has immensely increased reaching between 1100 and 1500 articles per year in the past five years (Figure 1). Based on the keywords used in these manuscripts, the most frequent topics can be grouped into: (i) m...