Erratum: Associations between Dietary Vegetables and Risk of Breast Cancer: A Hospital-Based Matched Case-Control Study.

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Associations between Dietary Vegetables and Risk of Breast Cancer: A Hospital-Based Matched Case-Control Study.

Purpose: The protective effect of vegetables against carcinogenesis has been reported in experimental studies particularly focusing on the gut. Therefore, we conducted a hospital-based matched case-control study to explore the association between dietary consumption and risk of breast cancer among Iranian women in northwest Iran.

Methods: A validated, quantitative, food frequency questionnaire was completed in 285 women (aged 25-65 years old) newly diagnosed with histopathologically confirmed breast cancer (grade II, III or clinical stage II, III) in Tabriz, northwest Iran, and the completed questionnaires were included in an age- and regional-matched hospital based-control study.

Dietary resistant starch contained foods and breast cancer risk: a case-control study in northwest of Iran.

Background: A protective effect of resistant starch (RS) containing foods on carcinogenesis has been shown from several lines of experimental evidence for gastrointestinal cancers. Therefore, we aimed to investigate the association between RS contained foods and breast cancer (BC) risk in a hospital-based, age- and origin- matched, case-control study.

Materials And Methods: A validated, semi-quantitative, food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) was completed by 306 women newly diagnosed with BC aged 25 to 65 years, and 309 healthy women as matched controls.

The effects of neoadjuvant chemotherapy on resectability of locally-advanced gastric adenocarcinoma: a clinical trial.

Introduction: Surgical resection is the only curative treatment for gastric cancer. However, the overall prognosis of gastric adenocarcinoma is poor and advanced disease may even make surgical treatment impossible. It has been theoretically proposed that administration of chemotherapy before surgical resection may down-stage the disease state and facilitate resectability especially in locally-advanced tumors.

A case of concurrent several forms of thyroid cancer.

Simultaneous occurrence of papillary and follicular thyroid cancer, known as differentiated thyroid cancer, has been reported with various presentations, but presence of an anaplastic cancer, as an undifferentiated cancer, in addition to differentiated thyroid cancer is rarely reported. We here report a 40-year-old man with papillary thyroid cancer on his right thyroid lobe and metastasized to the right posterior triangle of the neck. Survey on the mass in the right posterior triangle revealed presence of simultaneous papillary, follicular, and anaplastic thyroid cancer.

Survival analysis of breast cancer patients in northwest Iran.

Background: Breast cancer is the most frequently occurring cancer among Iranian women; however limited studies have been conducted to address survival rates.

Objective: The objective was to examine survival rates in Tabriz (Northwest of Iran) and compare with those of data reported from other cities and countries.

Methods: Survival rates were calculated for one, three, five, seven and ten years for 271 breast cancer patients referred to one university clinic during 1997-2008.

Patterns of metastasis and survival in breast cancer patients: a preliminary study in an Iranian population.

Due to lack of sufficient data on characteristics of breast cancer patients and risk factors for developing metastasis in Iran this study was designed to understand clinical aspects impacting on survival. A cross-sectional study on breast cancer patients was conducted in an oncology clinic of the university hospital between 1995 and 2010. Data were retrieved from medical records and included age, menopausal status, tumor diameter, number of involved nodes, histopathological type, estrogen and progesterone receptor expression, c-erbB-2, primary and secondary metastasis sites, overall survival, disease free interval and type of chemotherapy protocol.

Nonoperative management of anterior thoracoabdominal stab wounds in selected patients.

Objectives: Nowadays, use of selective nonoperative management has decreased the incidence of nontherapeutic laparotomies in patients with anterior thoracoabdominal stab wounds. The safety of selective nonoperative management was investigated in these patients, not requiring emergency laparotomy.

Patients And Methods: Patients referred to the Tabriz Imam Reza Hospital with anterior thoracoabdominal stab wounds were studied from August 2008 to 2010.

Hormone receptor status in breast cancer and its relation to age and other prognostic factors.

Background: Increasing evidence shows the importance of young age, estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR) status, and HER-2 expression in patients with breast cancers.

Patients And Methods: We organized an analytic cross-sectional study of 105 women diagnosed with breast cancer who have been operated on between 2008 to 2010. We evaluated age, size, hormone receptor status, HER-2 and P53 expression as possible indicator of lymph node involvement.

Management of high-risk popliteal vascular blunt trauma: clinical experience with 62 cases.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to report the clinical and functional outcomes of patients, treated between 2004 and 2009, with high-risk popliteal vascular injuries due to compound fractures about the knee.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted of prospectively collected data from Tabriz Medical Trauma Center. Our aim was to perform surgical revascularization as soon as the arterial injury was recognized.

Giant prosthetic reinforcement of the visceral sac: the Stoppa groin hernia repair in 234 patients.

Background: Recurrent and complex bilateral inguinal hernias are associated with a high recurrence rate. Giant prosthetic reinforcement of the visceral sac (GPRVS) is popular in America and Europe, but there are no prospective data from Iran.

Patients And Methods: From 20 March 1995 to 20 March 2003, 234 patients (227 men and 7 women) with 420 inguinal hernias (186 bilateral and 48 unilateral) underwent repair using a large polyester mesh based on Stoppa's preperitoneal technique.