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Epidemiology of oral cancer in Iran: A systematic review
(2015)
Background: Oral cancer stands among the 10 top causes of cancer death in the world. Considering the role of epidemiologic information on planning and effective interventions, the present study aimed to investigate the ...
Serum and tissue endothelin-1 are independent from intima-media thickness of peripheral arteries in patients with chronic kidney disease.
(2015)
We aimed to study the relationship of peripheral arteries' atherosclerosis with serum and tissue endothelin-1 in chronic kidney disease patients.Ninety patients were enrolled, including 35 patients with chronic kidney ...
C-kit mutations in endometrial cancer: Correlation with tumor histologic type
(2015)
Objective: Endometrial cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women in developed countries. Affected patients may benefit from systemic chemotherapy, alone or in combination with targeted therapies if the disease ...
Clinicopathological factors and gastric cancer prognosis in the iranian population: a meta-analysis.
(2015)
Gastric cancer is the most common cancer in the Iranian population. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of clinicopathological factors on prognosis by meta-analysis.A literature search was conducted using ...
Role of exon 7 PTEN Gene in Endometrial Carcinoma.
(2015)
Endometrial carcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of the female genital tract and the fourth most common cancer in Iranian women after breast, colorectal and lung cancers. Various genetic alterations appear to be ...
Association of serum level of 25 hydroxy-vitamin D with prognostic factors for breast cancer.
(2011)
In recent years, there has been considerable interest in whether vitamin D inhibits breast cancer development. Experimental studies have shown that vitamin D promotes cell differentiation and retards or terminates proliferation ...
Estimation of cancer cases using capture-recapture method in Northwest Iran.
(2013)
Under-ascertainment and over-ascertainment are common phenomena in surveillance and registry systems of health-related events. Capture-recapture is one of the methods which is applied to determine the sensitivity of ...
Diagnostic value of protein Ki67 (MIB-1) in atypical pap smears of postmenopausal women.
(2013)
Atrophic epithelium of cervix sampled from postmenopausal women may mimic high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in Papanicolaou-stained (Pap) smears. Ki-67 (MIB-1) protein presents on proliferating cells, and ...
Impact of postoperative chemoradiotherapy and chemoradiotherapy alone for esophageal cancer in North-West Iran.
(2013)
To investigate the role of surgical treatment for locally advanced esophageal cancer, we compared the outcomes of chemoradiotherapy alone (CRT) to postoperative chemoradiotherapy (S/CRT), using, Regional Radiotherapy Center, ...
Survival in patients treated with definitive chemo- radiotherapy for non-metastatic esophageal cancer in north- west iran.
(2013)
Areas of Iran have among the highest incidences of esophageal cancer in the world. Definitive chemo-radiotherapy (DCRT) is used for locally advanced esophageal cancer and for inoperable tumors asan alternative to surgical ...