background and purpose: breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer-specific mortality among women worldwide. this study aimed at investigating the epidemiological, clinical, and pathological characteristics of breast cancer among patients attending baghban clinic in sari. materials and methods: the patients’ records (2008-2014) were used and data including age, gender, marital status, men...

background and purpose: breast cancer is the most common malignancy and a leading cause of cancer deaths in women throughout the world. breast cancer is accounted for 16 percent of all cancers. this study was performed to investigate the epidemiology of breast cancer in mazandaran province. materials and methods: this longitudinal descriptive study included all cases with breast cancer recorded...

breast cancer is the most common cancer in women after skin cancer. in iran, the presentation age of this cancer is younger than the global average. there are different therapeutic methods for treatment of breast cancer and the choice of treatment depends on the stage of the disease as well as its type and characteristics. therapeutic methods include surgery, radiotherapy, and systemic therapie...

introduction: gail model is one of the most important models for the evaluation of breast cancer risk between us white females. according to genetic diversity, there is a possibility of affecting the efficiency of the gail model in risk assessment of breast cancer among iranian populations. in this study, the gail model efficiency in specifying the risk of breast cancer in iranian population wa...

ABSTRACT           Breast cancer remains the most common cancer of women and one of the most common causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. In spite of major advances in breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, the incidence of breast cancer remains high and the treatment of metastatic breast cancer remains challenging. This review presents an over...

objective: the incidence of breast cancer is approximately one million which makes this cancer one of the most common among women worldwide. breast cancer comprises 7% of the total death rate caused by cancers. several strategies that use tumor-associated antigen (taa) vaccination and early detection of breast cancer are clinically being developed. breast cancer is caused by increased over expr...

background & aim: evaluation of prevalence of risk factors for breast cancer in different regions of iran and identification of their significant effect on this disease can promote the prevention and reduction of breast cancer incidence. therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the prevalence, demographic characteristics, and frequency of the risk factors of breast cancer during 10 years. method...

background cancer stem cells play crucial roles in resistance to therapeutic schemes and relapse of disease, so it is important to find targeted therapies that kill them selectively. breast cancer is the most common cancer in females living in all part of the world including iran and it has an important burden in public health with direct impact on patients’ families. breast cancer in young adu...