results the mean age at the time of diagnosis was 54 years (range, 28 - 74). cause-specific survival rates of the entire group were 92%, 87% and 82%, at two, three and five years, respectively. the five-year cause-specific survival rates for grades one, two and three were 98%, 88% and 68%, respectively. multivariate analysis revealed that age, depth of myometrial invasion, involvement of ovarie...

Abstract Objective This study aimed to clarify the association between both hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and glucose transporter type-1 expression survival outcome in advanced pharyngeal cancer without human papillomavirus infection. Method Twenty-five oropharyngeal 55 hypopharyngeal patients infection were enrolled. All had stage III–IV lesions underwent concurrent chemoradiotherapy or surgery....

background: it is becoming apparent that although inhibition of cholinesterase plays a key role in organophosphate (op) toxicity, other factors are also important. one of the contributing factors for severity of op poisoning is electrolyte imbalances such as hypokalemia. this study was aimed at evaluating the value of hypokalemia in association with plasma cholinesterase (pche) levels in predic...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To establish the reliability and validity of a previously developed survey measuring nurses' experiences with prognosis-related communication. DESIGN Psychometric testing of survey. SETTING Mailed survey of Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) members. SAMPLE 392 ONS members. METHODS Reliability was analyzed using Cronbach's alpha. Total scale and subscale characteristics w...

Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) has multiple features including high invasiveness, high recurrence and high mortality. MicroRNA (miR) regulates cell proliferation, apoptosis and differentiation, thus participating occurrence and progression of tumors. Study has found abnormal expression of miR-146a in TNBC cells, suggesting its potential involvement. This study aimed to investigate the cor...

materials and methods the expression of gp73 was investigated in 88 cancerous and self-control non-cancerous tissues using tissue microarrays with immunohisto- chemistry and was confirmed by western blotting. circulating gp73 levels were detected in the sera of 281 patients with liver diseases using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. results the levels of circulating gp73 expression in the hcc ...

background: population based research contributes to our understanding of cancer at many levels. for health program planning and policy making it is important to have information about the incidence of the common cancers in the population. descriptive epidemiologic studies measure the occurrence of cancer and other health-related factors in relation to person (e.g. age, sex, race, social class,...

background and objective: male breast carcinoma (mbc) is an unusual form of neoplasia, representing 0.7 to 1 percent of all breast cancer cases. usually, the carcinoma affects patients after the sixth decade. the aim of this study was to evaluate the status of estrogen and progesterone receptors (er and pr) and prognostic factors (p53 and her-2/neu) in a series of male patients with breast canc...

conclusions the hormonal levels were low in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. however, the prognostic significance of different hormonal deficiencies was not clear in our study populations who were receiving standard therapies for heart failure and had a relatively stable clinical condition. results except for testosterone level, the levels of gh, igf-1, t3, and t4 concentrations...