Using data reduction methods to predict quality of life in breast cancer patients.

Background: Quality of life study has an important role in health care especially in chronic diseases, in clinical judgment and in medical resources supplying. Statistical tools like linear regression are widely used to assess the predictors of quality of life. But usually existed a lot of factor cause difficulty for fitting the models and predicting.

Predictors of quality of life in breast cancer patients under chemotherapy.

Background: Today, the quality of life studies has an important role in health care especially in chronic diseases. Breast cancer has third order among women's malignancies. Now, survival rate for this cancer is long.

Quality of life in breast cancer patients--a quantile regression analysis.

Background: Quality of life study has an important role in health care especially in chronic diseases, in clinical judgment and in medical resources supplying. Statistical tools like linear regression are widely used to assess the predictors of quality of life. But when the response is not normal the results are misleading.

Measuring the childbearing motivation of couples referred to the Shiraz Health Center for premarital examinations.

Millions of children who were born during the first decade after the Islamic revolution in Iran are now reaching the age of marriage and childbearing. Short spacing between marriage and the birth of the first child has the potential to cause an excessive and costly increase in the growth of population in Iran. Research into the motivations for the birth of first child among newly married couples can create a knowledge base that will enable health centres to help these couples make better decisions about the timing of their first pregnancy.

Invasive carcinoma of the uterine cervix in Iran.

Objective: To review diagnostic aspects, treatment measures and pathologic findings in patients diagnosed and treated for invasive cervical carcinoma in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences hospitals.

Method: The hospital records of all patients admitted to the Shiraz University of Medical Sciences affiliated hospitals (Nemazee and Saadi hospitals) with newly diagnosed carcinoma of the uterine cervix between January 1985 and December 1995, were reviewed.

Results: 204 newly diagnosed patients were admitted with invasive cervical carcinoma of which 61 (30%) were in stage I (FIGO), 96 (47%) in stage II, 34 (16.