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Conclusion: The results of this study showed that cognitive-behavioral group therapy can affect the self-efficacy and quality of life in women with breast cancer.

Conclusion: Our study showed that upgrading rate increases with increasing age and tumor size. This rate is much higher in PL and ADH as compared to SA and FEA. Therefore, it is recommended that the tumor be excised in older patients and larger tumors to prevent cancer. In order to achieve more accurate results, specific studies for each lesion are required.

Conclusion: Our results revealed that about %45 of patients with breast cancer undergoing mastectomy experienced some degree of depression.

Conclusion: Based on the findings of this study, the defects in the memory of patients with breast cancer were due to chemotherapy. It is recommended that Psychological interventions be applied along with medical treatment for improving these problems.

Conclusion: Applying this algorithm can optimize the performance of the neural network. The optimal performance of this method is revealed by comparing the proposed method with the non-optimized method and the approach which used only PCA and neural network method. The results suggest that the method presented in this paper had a high accuracy in classifying breast cancer data and can be used for its diagnosis.

Conclusion: The results showed that dyadic coping strategies play an important role in marital quality of married women with breast cancer. Therefore, given the positive relationship between dyadic coping and marital quality, couples experience higher marital quality as they cooperate more to deal with the stress associated with cancer.