background: depression and anxiety had negative effects on the quality of life of cancer patients, thus hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) is a useful instrument for screening these problems. this research was performed to assess the prevalence of their anxiety and depression. methods: from 2012-2013, one hundred fifty patients with recent diagnosis of different cancers in babol, iran...

rectal cancer is the second most common cancer in large intestine. the prevalence and the number of young patients diagnosed with rectal cancer have made it as one of the major health problems in the world. with regard to the improved access to and use of modern screening tools, a number of new cases are diagnosed each year. considering the location of the rectum and its adjacent organs, manage...

introduction: colorectal cancer is the most common cancer of the alimentary system. in women, it is the second leading cause of mortality after breast cancer while in men, it is the third leading cause of death after lung and prostate carcinoma. prevalence is more in population older than 50 years and increases in older people. therefore, best treatment and prognosis is early diagnosis of disea...

background: esophageal cancer is one of the prevalent cancers in east azerbaijan province. the aims of this study are to estimate the survival rate of patients with esophageal cancer by treatment modalities and tumor location, as well as risk factors such as cigarette smoking, family history, age at diagnosis, and gender. materials and methods: in a cross-sectional study we evaluated 142 patien...

introduction :  despite  recent  advances  in  treatment  of  oral  cancer,  it  still causes high rates of mortality and morbidity worldwide. delays in diagnosis and treatment of these cancers greatly affect the prognosis.  this study aimed to assess the treatment delay and its relation to diagnostic delay among oral cancer patients in tehran, iran. materials and methods : we studied 100 patie...

breast cancer (bc) accounts for one of the major health problems around the world. since the diagnosis process can have great effect on therapy outcomes, we studied the biomarkers specific to breast tumors stage i based on examining different iranian patients. cases from different stages were examined to discover their highly expressed proteins. in addition, pathologic evaluations were performe...

background this cross-sectional study was conducted to compare the average costs of breast cancer screening and treatment among women with the age of 25 and over in shiraz-iran.   methods three majors hospitals affiliated with shiraz university of medical sciences (sums) were selected for data collection. financial documents and interviews with the hospitals’ financial officers were used for da...