abstract objective : the policy makers and social managers need some criteria for building up the appropriate health status of the community and observe the equity and equality on it. they have to know the burden of diseases as a main determining factor for decision making, planning and programming. disability adjusted life years (dalys) is a criteria which shows the wasted life time due to ear...

Introduction: Meningioma is the most frequent primary tumor in central nervous system (CNS), representing 33.8% of all intracranial tumors. Breast cancer (BC) among women, 25.2% malignancies females.

background: as children comprise a considerable proportion of our population, the importance of local epidemiologic research and geographic and racial differences can’t be disputed on childhood malignancies. methods: in this descriptive retrospective study, we extensively reviewed the medical records of patients younger than 15 years of age, diagnosed with solid malignant tumors, from 1996 to 2...

Abstract Symptomatic presentation of patients with intra-cranial malignancy is frequently non-specific and differentiating such from those benign conditions challenging. Accordingly, GBM presents as a medical emergency more than any other common cancer, implying that effective strategies for rapid simple diagnostic stratification are urgently required. Here we describe the detection glial malig...

Gene therapy offers significant advantages to the field of oncology with the addition of specifically and uniquely engineered mechanisms of halting malignant proliferation through cytotoxicity or reproductive arrest. To confer a true benefit to the therapeutic ratio (the relative toxicity to tumor compared to normal tissue) a vector or the transgene it carries must selectively affect or access ...