objective(s): breast cancer is the most common type of cancer among women worldwide. this study investigated the expression and clinical significance of activating transcription factor 3 (atf3) in human breast cancer and its relationship with the clinical outcome of breast cancer.   materials and methods : atf3 expressions were detected in 114 primary breast cancer tissues and 114 adjacent norm...

recently, reports have shown that gastric cancer has high abundance in iran and is at the second level in men, and fourth in total. this study aimed to determine the 5-year survival of gastric cancer patients and to investigate factors affecting the performance, based on tnm-7 staging system. in this study, we investigated 760 patients with gastric cancer since the beginning of 1993 to the end ...

Introduction: Diabetes is associated with an increased risk of cancer. Because of the metastatic nature of cancer, the survival of women with breast cancer is decreasing despite receiving various treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between diabetes and the risk factors related to the survival of breast cancer patients. M...

esophageal cancer is one of the most common malignancies in our country. patients often seek medical advice in advanced and inoperable stages or with cervical esophageal cancer, in which operation is accompanied by sever morbidity. in this conditions many of them cannot tolerate chemo-radiation, or refuse it. therefore radiotherapy is applied as a single modality in palliation of many patients ...

introduction: gastric cancer remains the second most common cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. in many malignancies like, lung and breast, multiple prognostic factors are known, such as mutations in ki-67, her-2/neu, p53. in this study, we evaluated immunohistochemical protein expression patterns of cell-cycle-regulators p53, proliferation marker ki-67, surface expression of cd44, her-2/...

abstract background: eating disorder is one of the most common health problems with clinical and psychological consequences, which can affect body image in cancer patients. similar studies in this area for checking the status of this disorder and its relevance with body image in patients with cancer are limited. therefore, this study was designed with the aim of determination of eating disorder...