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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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About: Tehran University of Medical Sciences is a education organization based out in Tehran, Iran. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cancer. The organization has 35661 authors who have published 57234 publications receiving 878523 citations. The organization is also known as: TUMS.
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TL;DR: This review covers the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of cancer cachexia; the elements impeding the formulation of a standard management guideline; and future directions of research for the improvement and standardization of current treatment procedures.
Abstract: Cancer cachexia is a multi-factorial syndrome, which negatively affects quality of life, responsiveness to chemotherapy, and survival in advanced cancer patients. Our understanding of cachexia has grown greatly in recent years and the roles of many tumor-derived and host-derived compounds have been elucidated as mediators of cancer cachexia. However, cancer cachexia remains an unmet medical need and attempts towards a standard treatment guideline have been unsuccessful. This review covers the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of cancer cachexia; the elements impeding the formulation of a standard management guideline; and future directions of research for the improvement and standardization of current treatment procedures.
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TL;DR: These epidemiologic findings call for a broader attempt to promote public awareness and screening strategies in those families with a member affected by colorectal cancer, especially at younger age or with proximal tumors.
Abstract: Although the incidence of colorectal cancer in Iranian older age subjects is currently very low compared to Western population, the younger generation is experiencing an accelerated rate approaching the Western rates and the burden of disease will increase dramatically in near future. The high frequency of positive family history of colorectal cancer in Iranian patients indicates that a significant number of colorectal cancers in Iran arise in family members and relatives of colorectal cancer patients. It is clear that the familial clustering of colorectal cancer is more often seen in younger probands and cancer located in the right side of the colon. These epidemiologic findings call for a broader attempt to promote public awareness and screening strategies in those families with a member affected by colorectal cancer, especially at younger age or with proximal tumors. Based on our present understanding, the possibility of preventing or curing most colon and rectal cancers is now plausible. The molecular biology of colon cancer has been the subject of many researches and is better understood than those for any other solid cancer and have established an important example for cancer research. It is now clear that colorectal cancer develops as the result of genetic and epigenetic alterations that lead to malignant transformation of normal mucosa. In spite of these scientific progresses and the fact that screening can reduce the rate of death by detecting early cancer or premalignant polyps, the rate of screening is very low globally and negligible in Iran and many other developing countries which is due to cost, resistance by physicians, patients, and the healthcare system. In Iran screening should at least be started in family members at earlier age with colonoscopy as the preferred modality of screening method.
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TL;DR: In this article, porous cross-linked Chit/Alg hydrogels containing Alpha-tocopherol (Vitamin E) were fabricated and their morphology, swelling properties, weight loss, hemo- and cytocompatibility were evaluated.
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TL;DR: The results demonstrated that the patients treated with Liv-52 for 6 months had significantly better child-pugh score, decreased ascites, decreased serum ALT and AST, and in placebo administered patients all the clinical parameters recorded at beginning of the study were not significantly different than after 6 months.
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TL;DR: An estimate of the cancer risk caused by exposure to ambient PAHs in highly crowded areas in central Tehran is provided, and can be used as a guide for the adoption of effective air quality policies in order to reduce the human exposure to these harmful organic species.
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Graeme J. Hankey | 137 | 844 | 143373 |
Paul D.P. Pharoah | 130 | 794 | 71338 |
Jerome Ritz | 120 | 644 | 47987 |
Reza Malekzadeh | 118 | 900 | 139272 |
Robert N. Weinreb | 117 | 1124 | 59101 |
Javad Parvizi | 111 | 969 | 51075 |
Omid C. Farokhzad | 110 | 329 | 64226 |
Ali Mohammadi | 106 | 1149 | 54596 |
Alexander R. Vaccaro | 102 | 1179 | 39346 |
John R. Speakman | 95 | 667 | 34484 |
Philip J. Devereaux | 94 | 443 | 110428 |
Rafael Lozano | 94 | 265 | 126513 |
Mohammad Abdollahi | 90 | 1045 | 35531 |
Ingmar Skoog | 89 | 458 | 28998 |
Morteza Mahmoudi | 83 | 334 | 26229 |