Brain Metastasis from Breast Cancer: risk factors and radiotherapy perspective from a tertiary Middle Eastern facility.

Backgrounds: Breast cancer represents the second most frequent cause of brain metastases after lung cancer. Previous studies have identified the subgroups of patients with triple-negative and HER2-positive as having an increased risk for the development of brain metastases. We are not aware in Kurdistan - Iraq of any national studies that are in parallel with these findings.

Mode of Presentation of Laryngeal Cancer: A Single Radiotherapy Institute Experience in Iraq.

Purpose: Laryngeal cancer is relatively common and usually presents with hoarseness due to a lesion in the glottis. We noticed that many of our patients had presented with supraglottic lesions and we could not find local literature in support of this observation. Mode of presentation and site of the lesion of these patients will be addressed in this review.

Treatment Outcomes of Pediatric Patients With Ewing Sarcoma in a War-Torn Nation: A Single-Institute Experience From Iraq.

Purpose: Ewing sarcoma (ES) is a relatively rare, highly malignant tumor of the musculoskeletal system. It is the second most common malignant bone tumor in children and adolescents in the age group of 5 to 20 years. The aim of this study was to identify the treatment outcomes of pediatric patients with ES in Sulaimani governorate, Iraq.