Significant Pathologic Response Following Neoadjuvant Therapy and Curative Resection in Patients With Rectal Cancer: Surgical and Oncological Outcomes From a Retrospective Cohort Study.

Aim: This study evaluated surgical complication rates, recurrence-free survival, overall survival (OS), and stoma status of patients with rectal cancer after significant pathologic response following neoadjuvant treatment and curative resection. Pathologic complete response (pCR) and near-pCR patients constitute patients in our study.

Methods: Included was a retrospective cohort study of patients with rectal cancer who were diagnosed between July 2011 and September 2022 and who underwent neoadjuvant therapy and surgical resection.

Association between polymorphism with prognosis of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas: A meta-analysis.

Objective: The () gene is involved in DNA repair. Defects in DNA repair may lead to head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs). Several researches have focused on relationship between Arg genetic polymorphism with HNSCC's prognosis with conflicting results.

The estimation of long and short term survival time and associated factors of HIV patients using mixture cure rate models.

Background: HIV is one of the deadliest epidemics and one of the most critical global public health issues. Some are susceptible to die among people living with HIV and some survive longer. The aim of the present study is to use mixture cure models to estimate factors affecting short- and long-term survival of HIV patients.

The differences between normal and obese patient handling: re- structural analysis of two questionnaires.

Background: Precise causes of musculoskeletal complaints among nurses are not known well, but many studies have pointed to manual patient handling tasks. Subjective judgment and decision-making process for patient lifting is crucial for gathering data regards patient handling. The aim of this study was to consider reliability and validity and re-structure of two special tools for patient handling's tasks.

The XRCC1 Arg194Trp polymorphism was associated with the risk of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma development: Results from a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: The X-ray repair cross complementing group 1 (XRCC1) is a DNA repair gene. Various studies have examined the association between XRCC1 Arg194Trp polymorphism and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) susceptibility with contradictory results. So, this systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to assess whether variants of this polymorphism increase the HNSCC risk or not.

Prediction the survival of patients with breast cancer using random survival forests for competing risks.

Objectives: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cause of cancer death in Iranian women. Sometimes death from other causes precludes the event of interest and makes the analysis complicated. The purpose of this study was to identify important prognostic factors associated with survival duration among patients with BC using random survival forests (RSF) model in presence of competing risks.

Investigating factors affecting the interval between a burn and the start of treatment using data mining methods and logistic regression.

Background: Burn is a tragic event for an individual, the family, and community. It can cause irreparable physical, mental, economic, and social injury. Researches well documented that a quick visit to a healthcare center can greatly reduce burn injuries.

Application of data mining techniques and logistic regression to model drug use transition to injection: a case study in drug use treatment centers in Kermanshah Province, Iran.

Background: Drug injection has been increasing over the past decades all over the world. Hepatitis B and C viruses (HBV and HCV) are two common infections among people who inject drugs (PWID) and more than 60% of new human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) cases are PWID. Thus, investigating risk factors associated with drug use transition to injection is essential and was the aim of this research.

Detecting and Accommodating Outliers in Meta-Analysis for Evaluating Effect of Albendazole on Ascaris lumbricoides Infection.

Background: Meta-analysis is a statistical technique in which the results of two or more independent studies, with similar objectives, are mathematically combined in order to improve the reliability of the results. The outliers, which may exist even in random models, can affect the validity and strength of meta-analysis results.

Objectives: The current study uses "random effects variance shift model" to evaluate and correct the outliers in performing a meta-analysis study of the effect of albendazole in treating patients with Ascaris lumbricoides infection.