Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women and second leading cause of death in women (Siegel et al., 2017) with BC alone accounting for 30% of all new diagnoses in women worldwide (Siegel et al., 2017). According to the National Cancer Registry of Iran, of all cancers BC has the highest rate of occurrence among women (Rafiemanesh et al., 2015). Although the
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