The effect of durability of knowledge transfer through reminiscence on the moral sensitivity of nurses.

Background: Nursing is a moral attempt and endeavor. Moral sensitivity training is one of the most important ways to strengthen nursing moral decision making. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of durability of knowledge transfer through reminiscence on nurses' moral sensitivity.

Challenges to promoting population-based cancer registration in Iran: a workshop report.

In December 2011, the Cancer Research Centre of the Cancer Institute of Iran sponsored a 3-day workshop on "Cancer Registration Principle and Challenges in Iran", which convened cancer registry experts. The objectives of the workshop were: to introduce standard cancer registration, to review the policy and procedure of cancer registration in Iran, and to review the best practices in the cancer registries in Iran. Challenges to cancer registration were discussed and recommendations were developed.

Outcome of breast cancer in Iran: a study of Tehran Cancer Registry data.

Background: Breast Cancer is the second most common cancer among Iranian women. This study was conducted to define the outcome of breast cancer which had been registered by Tehran Cancer Registry.

Methods: All Tehranian breast cancer which registered from 1998 to 2001 was selected; the repeated cases were excluded according to their common name, family name, and Father's name.

Burden of breast cancer in Iran: a study of the Tehran population based cancer registry.

Background: Breast cancer is the second most common cancer among Iranian women. This study was designed to estimate the burden of breast cancer in Tehran, the capital of Iran.

Methods: In this retrospective study, the existing data of Tehran Population Based Cancer Registry (TCR) from 1998 to 2001 were used; all Tehranian women with breast cancer were followed for computing the survival and remission rates.

Delay in flowering and increase in biomass of transgenic tobacco expressing the Arabidopsis floral repressor gene FLOWERING LOCUS C.

FLOWERING LOCUS C (FLC), a gene from Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh. that acts as a flowering repressor, was expressed in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.