introduction: breast cancer is the second most common cause of brain metastasis. although patient prognosis is poor, isolated brain metastasis occasionally can be an option for treatment with curative intent in breast cancer patients. case presentation: we report a patient with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast who developed an isolated right frontal lobe metastasis within 5 months of fin...

introduction: colo-rectal cancer has 10% prevalence, among all of the cancer proportionally and also it is the third common cancer in the both sexes. two recently introduced active drugs in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer (acc) are irinotecan and oxaliplatin. the combinations of oxaliplatin (oxa) or irinotecan (iri) with 5fu-lv have been accepted as standard treatment for metastatic...

introduction: this study investigates to what extent the computed dose received by lung tissue in a commercially available treatment planning system (tps) for 192ir high-dose-rate breast brachytherapy is accurate in view of tissue inhomogeneities and presence of ribs. materials and methods: a ct scan of the breast was used to construct a patient-equivalent phantom in the clinical treatment plan...

Despite development of new approaches for the treatment of cancer disease, it is the second cause of mortality in world. Annually, 30000 persons die in Iran due to cancer diseases. Eighty percent of cancer patients are children which about 50% children lead to death. Given the high rate of cancer-related death, the new approaches for prevention, control, early diagnosis, and treatment of this d...

An online survey about the use and format of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) Standards and Guidelines documents was conducted. The survey was sent to A.S.P.E.N. members, and an acceptable number of responses were received (470, or 9% of those surveyed). Most respondents indicated an overall satisfaction with the standards and guidelines and suggested forma...

introduction: breast cancer is one of the most common cancers among women. one complication after mastectomy following breast cancer is ipsilateral upper extremity lymphedema. this study aims to compare the effect of complex decongestive physical (cdp) therapy with a combination of intermittent pneumatic compression pump and cdp therapy on secondary upper extremity lymphedema volume and quality...

Cancer is caused by aberrant genetic and epigenetic changes in genes expression. DNA methylation, histone modification, and microRNAs gene deregulation are the most known epigenetic changes in different stages of cancer. Since every tumor has its own specific epigenome, any abnormal pattern is a potential biomarker for classification of different types of tumors. Despite, tumorigenesis, abnorma...

Measures of personal satisfaction with health systems play an increasingly important role in national and international performance assessments. Using data from the 2010 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey, we analyzed the determinants of personal perceptions of health system performance in eleven high-income countries. In most countries there was a clear relationship between o...