background & objective:the present study was undertaken to ascertain the incidence of early, advanced cancer cervix and its recurrence and role of chemotherapy in locally advanced cancer cervix. material and methods: the present study was conducted in the departments of obstetrics & gynaecology, pathology and radiotherapy and the specimens examined in the department of pathology of jaw...

introduction: cancer and chemotherapy could decrease serum zinc level. in this study, serum zinc level was investigated at the beginning of cancer diagnosis and 3 months after chemotherapy in children with all types of cancer. method: in this cross sectional study forty-five 1-15 year old children who were newly diagnosed cancer cases (leukemia, lymphoma and solid tumor) were evaluated. patient...

background and objective: it is well known that menstrual period and ovarian function are affected by chemotherapy. although breast cancer is the most common cause of chemotherapy in women and ovarian hormones have very important direct and indirect effects on overall survival, disease-free survival, and life quality of patients, but few studies have addressed the frequency and related factors ...

conclusions consultation sessions are necessary to reduce depression of patients with cancer. since depression may reduce quality of life and reaction to treatment, curing depression may relatively reduce side effects of disease for patients to have less pain and problems. background cancer is one of the chronic diseases, which increases the risk of depression. the main causes of depression amo...

background: cancer is usually accompanied by considerable stress for the sufferer, and the stress has destructive effects on chemotherapy treatment process. therefore, the current research deals with the effect of yoga laughter on the cancer patients’ stress before chemotherapy. methods: in this research, as the first step, 37 cancer sufferers , who had been hospitalized in shohada tajrish hosp...

objective: to report involvement of the central nervous system (cns) following epithelial ovarian cancer is rare. advances in management of ovarian cancer by use of primary surgery including abdominal hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo'oophorectomy should attain as complete a cytoreduction as possible and effective platinum-based chemotherapy have prolonged survival. case report: we present a cas...

background: nausea and vomiting are the most common and unpleasant side effects of chemotherapy, and they may prevent successful treatment completion. antiemetics not only cannot control nausea and vomiting completely but also have numerous side effects. so it is necessary to find other methods for a better control. this study aimed to assess the effect of massage therapy on chemotherapy-induce...

tumor size seems to be a determinant in the prognosis of early cervical cancer. patients with tumor size greater than 4 cm (bulky) in diameter have worse outcome.' the purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of preoperative combined chemoradiation and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (narc) programs followed by radical hysterectomy in stage ib - lib bulky cervical cancer. from september ...

background: full blood count has been shown to predict disease severity and mortality risk in cancer patients. this study aimed to highlight the degree of derangements of full blood count parameters and provide mean values in pre-chemotherapy breast cancer patients compared with apparently normal control subjects.methods: this was an unmatched case-control study among breast cancer patients att...

background: recent advances in cancer treatment have resulted in an increased number of cancer survivors. fertility might be impaired by cancer itself or through gonadal damage as a consequence of radio-chemotherapy. damages to reproductive organs are seen in minimally upto 30% of cancer patients. the aim of the present study was evaluate the attitude of iranian oncologists toward fertility pre...