CONTEXT Women commonly misunderstand their risk for breast cancer, overestimating both their risk for developing the disease at a young age and their lifetime risk. OBJECTIVE To determine whether age bias occurs in popular media coverage of breast cancer. SELECTION STRATEGY: The search term breast cancer was used to identify 389 articles in U.S. magazines with a circulation of at least 500,00...

background: the women with breast cancer experience high rates of morbidity due to different treatments. the objective of this study was to evaluate the role of aerobic exercise in the quality of life (qol) among women suffering from breast cancer in hamadan, western iran. method: participants who had consummated the eligibility criteria were randomly assigned in exercise group (n=30) and contr...

OBJECTIVE To identify the age of introduction of petit suisse cheese and instant noodles in the diet of infants attending nurseries of public day care centers and to compare the nutritional composition of these foods with the healthy recommended diet (breast milk and salt meal) for this age, in order to estimate nutritional errors. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 366 children (from nine to 3...

In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled study, we investigated the effect of an infant milk formula with 6 g/L short-chain galacto- and long-chain fructo-oligosaccharides [(scGOS/lcFOS) ratio 9:1] on the development of the fecal secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) response and on the composition of the intestinal microbiota in 215 healthy infants during the first 26 wk of life. The i...

breast cancer is the most important and prevalent cancer in women that can be managed if detected in the early stages. recently, there has been much focus on the use of epigenetic changes such as dna methylation in early detection of cancer. as recent research has put forth dok7 cpg island methylation as an epimarker, in the present study, using a quantification method, a cohort of iranian spor...

background: breast cancer is the most common malignancy among iranian women and is a significant stressor in women’s life that may affect their coping strategies and quality of life. this study aimed to investigate coping strategies, quality of life and pain of women with breast cancer. materials and methods: this was a cross‑sectional study which held in seyed‑al shohada hospital and two priva...

background: time of day can affect the outcome of medical procedures and surgical operations. the current study was designed to assess whether time of day can influence the quality of breast cancer surgery or not. methods: patients who underwent breast cancer surgery and axillary lymph node dissection in tehran, iran between march 2012 and march 2013 were enrolled. surgeries were categorized in...

Cancer/testis (CT) antigens are immunogenic proteins expressed in normal gametogenic tissues and in different types of tumors. CT antigens are promising candidates for cancer immunotherapy, and the identification of novel CT antigens is a prerequisite for the development of cancer vaccines. We have identified a CT antigen, named CTSP-1, with partial similarity to the breast differentiation anti...

Atherosclerotic disease of the vascular system is a continuum. Disease may begin early in life, but it does not become clinically overt until atherosclerotic plaques reach a critical stage. The clinical manifestations of the disease are related to the impairment of tissue perfusion caused by the growth of the plaque inside the lumen of the vessel, causing impairment of blood flow and symptoms s...