objectives: the iranian cancer network was established in may 2003. our aim was to coordinate re search and treatment programs in all cancer centers in iran in order to save time and money and enable patients, wherever they live, to receive a uniformly high-standard treatment and care. methods: after signing a mutual contract with fellow (collaborator) university and holding some shared session...

ever since psychological issues became a focus of attention in oncology, many studies have been conducted to quantitatively address the impaired sexual function among women diagnosed with breast cancer; however, we lack qualitative measurement of sexual dysfunction and patients’ needs. conducting research about “sexual function in breast cancer patients” in 2009 at the tehran cancer institute s...

abstract background: cancer is one of the major causes of death in children and adolescents. about 4% of deaths in children of age less than 5 years and 13% of deaths in children of age 5-15 years are due to cancer in iranian population. the disease can cause many problems, which are usually detected by a psychologist, for the children and their mothers. therefore, this study aimed to identify ...

Following the UK "Brexit" vote in June 2016, there are many uncertainties and risks for cancer research and cancer care in the UK. These are summarised and the importance of sustained engagement and influence from the cancer community on UK governments is emphasised.

background: selecting the correct statistical test and data mining method depends highly on the measurement scale of data, type of variables, and purpose of the analysis. different measurement scales are studied in details and statistical comparison, modeling, and data mining methods are studied based upon using several medical examples. we have presented two ordinal–variables clustering exampl...

Addressing genetics, risk modeling, molecular targets for chemoprevention, clinical prevention trials, behavioral prevention research, public policy, and more, the Fifth Annual International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held in Boston, Massachusetts, in November 2006, added an outstanding new chapter to the landmark AACR Frontiers program for advancing the science and ...

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: for xenograft models of triple-negative breast cancer (tnbc) to be valuable in development of molecularly-targeted drugs, careful characterization is essential to their validation. the present study aimed to validate the tnbc xenograft model with a specific focus on angiogenesis. methods : twelve tnbc xenograft tumors and 12 human breast cancer tumors (htnbc) were included in this s...