background: to explore a possible rela!onship among blood groups and the prognosis of breast cancer, this case- control study was carried out in arak city, arak province, iran. materials and methods: one hundred and thirty four pa!ents with breast cancer were inves!gated. abo blood groups were obtained from medical records. mul!variate analyses were performed, including size of tumor, axillary ...

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: considering their specific adaption to marine milieus, marine actinomycetes constitute an excellent source for producing unique bioactive substances. they are also important sources of antibiotics and extracellular enzymes, geosmin, and enzymes with potent antibacterial and anticarcinogenic properties and low toxicity. the objective of this study is to isolate actinomycetes producin...

cell based therapeutics is one of the most rapidly advancing medical fields, bringing together a range of fields including transplantation, tissue engineering and regeneration, biomaterials and stem cell biology. however, traditional cell-based therapeutics have many limitations, one of which is their harmful effects exhibited on healthy body cells due to their lack of specificity. nanomedicine...

in this article, a mathematical model describing the growth orterminating myelogenous leukemia blood cancer's cells against naive t-celland eective t-cell population of body, presented by fractional dierentialequations. we use this model to analyze the stability of the dynamics, whichoccur in the local interaction of eector-immune cell and tumor cells. wewill also investigate the optima...

abstract background: the quantitative studies show that due to the widespread prevalence, high death rate, high treatment expenses, and long hospital stay, leukemia influences the families and their children to a great extent. in this regard, no qualitative study has been conducted in iran. so, this study was conducted in arak in 2011 with the aim of expressing the experiences of the parents wh...

background: the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise training on maximum aerobic capacity, resting heart rate (rhr), blood pressure and anthropometric variables of postmenopausal women with breast cancer. methods : twenty nine women with breast cancer who received surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy with current hormone therapy were divided into two groups; interventi...

background: colorectal cancer is one of the most common cancers and second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. every year nearly one million new cases of colorectal cancer are recognized around the world and nearly half of them lose their lives due to the disease. researches shown that in early diagnosis of this cancer 90% of patients can be treated. the fecal occult blood test (fobt) bec...