background and objective: p53 is a suppressive gene that plays a key role in dna repair and apoptosis. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of p53 protein over-expression and some clinicopathological factors on the esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (scc) response to neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy. patients and methods: in this retrospective cohort study, 44 patients with loca...

introdouction: squamous cell carcinoma is the most common oral cancer and the prognosis because of a late diagnosis remains poor despite numerous treatments. therefore, we conducted a cross-sectional study to investigate the relationships between survival rate(sr) of oral squamous cell carcinoma (oscc) and clinical,demographic, pathological, and molecular factors in yazd city during 1998– 2008....

conclusions despite the fact that abnormalities in p53 and p27kip1 may be involved in the development of oscc, their clinical significance in the studied population seems limited. further investigation on the combined p53/p27kip1 expression may be helpful in predicting the biologic behavior of this tumor. results p53 and p27kip1 expression were found in 28.57% (8 positive versus 20 negative) an...

Granular cell tumor is a rare benign neoplasm most commonly appears in the head and neck region, especially in the tongue, cheek mucosa, and palate. Occurrence in limbs is even rarer. These tumors account for approximately 0.5% of all soft tissue tumors. Granular cell tumor can also affect other organs including skin, breast, and lungs. Local recurrence and metastasis is potentially higher in m...

conclusions consumption of ole after tumor transplantation reduced the tumor growth. on the other hand, owing to its highly-packed polyphenols, catalase and superoxide dismutase activities in tumor tissue were increased. results treatment with 150 and 225 mg/kg/day of ole reduced the tumor volume and weight (p < 0.05) compared to the first group significantly. it also increased the cat activity...

littoral cell angioma is a splenic vascular tumor of splenic sinus lining cells that is considered benign in general. this report describes a case of littoral cell angioma with no malignant histological features. the lesion is composed of anastomosing vascular channels resembling splenic sinus; they are lined by endothelial cells which show mitotic activity very rare. immunohistochemically, the...

accumulating evidence suggests that self-renewal and differentiation capabilities reside only in a subpopulation of tumor cells, termed cancer stem cells (cscs), whereas the remaining tumor cell population lacks the ability to initiate tumor development or support continued tumor growth. in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (hnscc), as with other malignancies, cscs have been increasingly sh...

Background: Giant cell tumor is a benign but locally aggressive bone neoplasm which uncommonly involves the skull. Giant cell tumor (GCT) of the sphenoid bone is relatively rare. In this report, we describe a tumor of the greater wing of left sphenoid bone. Case presentation: A 31-year-old female was presented with headache, proptosis and diplopia of her left eye. Cranial magnetic resonance ima...

Background: OCT4B1, a variant of OCT4, is expressed in both cancer cells and tissues. This variant has a main role in the regulation of both apoptotic and stress (heat-shock proteins) pathways. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of OCT4B1 silencing on the expression of small heat-shock proteins (sHSPs)in three human tumor cell lines. Methods:...