background: breast cancer arising in young patients (≤ 40 years) is being considered as a distinct clinical entity with more aggressive tumor features and poorer survival. our aim was to assess the impact of age on survival among a large group of iranian women diagnosed with breast cancer. methods: in a cross-sectional study, demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with ...

introduction: acute myeloid leukemia (aml) is a clonal disease characterized by heterogeneous involvement of hematopoietic bone marrow cell populations. in aml patients, a variety of clinical and biologic parameters, including surface markers, have been examinedfor potential value in predicting treatment response and survival. by checking the myeloid, lymphoid and nonspecific markers on the bla...

background: for adult all patients, the indications and appropriate timing of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (ahsct) continue to be debated. the primary aim of this single-institution study was to compare the results of our adult all patients that had been allografted with those reported in the current literature. subjects and methods: this study included 53 consecutive adul...

background: we conducted a retrospective analysis to evaluate the impact of omission of supraclavicular radiotherapy on supraclavicular failure rate and treatment outcomes in n1 breast cancer patients with evaluation of prognostic factors that affected supraclavicular recurrence free survival. methods: this study analyzed the medical records of 109 patients with n1 breast cancer. all patients u...

background and purpose: the goal of this study is application of the proportional hazards model (ph) and accelerated failure time model (aft), with consideration weibull distribution, to determine the level of effectiveness of the factors affecting on the level of disease-free survival (dfs) of the patients with breast cancer. materials and methods: based on the retrospective descriptive studie...

Background:The incidence rate of head and neck cancer in the world is about 560,000 new cases a year. Larynx cancer is the most common malignancy in head and neck in Iran. The most common head and neck carcinoma is the malignancy of squamous epithelial cells. This study was conducted to determine the survival rate of patients undergoing nonsurgical treatment methods for larynge...

Background: Due to limited clinical data in pediatric-type sarcomas (rhabdomyosarcoma, Ewing's sarcoma, PNET, and desmoplastic small round-cell tumor), the aim of this study was to evaluate the demographic characteristics and identifying prognostic factors for survival. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 110 patients with pediatric-type sarcomas. Overall and disease free surviva...

background: triple negative breast cancer (tnbc) is reported to be associated with a high risk of recurrence, poor overall survival (os), and disease-free survival (dfs) rates. this study evaluated the clincopathological features and survival of non-metastatic tnbc women in the capital of iran compared with other areas of the world. methods: in a retrospective study, 119 women with tnbc based o...