abstract background data on childhood and adolescent malignant tumors incidence are skimp in developing countries. in this study, we analyzed the incidence and trend of childhood and adolescent cancers in yazd city, center of iran between jan 2004 and dec 2013. materials and methods the various types of malignant tumors were grouped pursuant to the international classification for cancer in chi...

purpose : to describe the survival characteristics and prognostic factors of patients with retinoblastoma in a referral center in iran methods : from medical records, we retrospectively analyzed the data of 139 consecutive children diagnosed in our hospital between 1991 and 2001 as having retinoblastoma. information on gender, laterality, age at diagnosis, presenting signs, tumor staging, treat...

background: neuroblastoma is the most common extra cranial malignant solid tumor of childhood. various molecular and cytogenetic factors have been implicated in the pathogenesis of neuroblastoma, some of which have proven useful in predicting clinical behavior. over expression of the oncogen n-myc, is an important indicator of prognosis. materials and methods: our study was performed from 2004 ...

rhabdomyosarcomas are the most common soft tissue sarcoma in adult and children that accompany with skeletal muscle differentiation. skin metastasis of rhabdomyosarcomas is unusual and has only been sporadically reported in literature. in this paper we present a case of skin metastasis of rhabdomyosarcoma in an 8-year-old girl that has treated with chemotherapy.

backgroundthe years of life lost (yll) due to cancer can be a more illustrative index. to promote preventive and therapeutic services, this study aimed to investigate the childhood cancer mortality and its trend over the past few years in yazd to provide planners with baseline data. material and method data obtained from death registration system of the healthcare center were used to calculate ...

introduction: despite achievements in treating acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) in children, its burden on the psychosocial status of patients is not well defined yet. this study aims to determine the impact of childhood all on emotional and behavioral pattern of the patients compared to healthy peers as assessed by the child behavior checklist (cbcl). methods: we studied 100 children with al...

background: recent studies have shown the trends in children cancer types, its frequencies, and mortality in some areas of the world. the aim of this study was to analyze the pattern of childhood cancer in a university affiliated hospital for the first time in sari in a period of 10 years (2001-2010) and to compare the results with similar reports. methods: this descriptive retrospective study ...

Identification of cancer clusters may have an important value to the study of disease etiology in cancer surveillance. We aimed to determine the spatial pattern of childhood cancer cases (CCCs) from 2007 to 2009 in Tehran, Iran. Records of 176 childhood cancer counts (children younger than 15 years old) for 2007-2009 were obtained from Iran’s Ministry of Health and Medical Education. Thereafter...

abstract objective: several studies have been published on the epidemiology of childhood malignancies worldwide. the primary objective of this study is to determine the relative frequency of pediatric cancers in iran. methods: using a retrospective approach, all confirmed cases of malignancies aged 14 years old or less at the time of first referral to the department of radiation oncology of jor...