Evaluation of the Trends of Stomach Cancer Incidence in Districts of Iran from 2000-2010: Application of a

Cancer, which is the second most common cause of death in many developed countries and the third one in some developing countries, is an important global public health concern (Bener et al., 2008; Herszenyi and Tulassay, 2010). According to GLOBOCAN estimates, cancer led to about 14.1 million of new cases and about 8.2 million deaths in 2012. Stomach cancer, with roughly 950,000 new cases and 723,000 deaths in 2012, is the fifth most common cancer and the third leading cause of death among cancers throughout the world (Cancer, 2014; Hu et al., 2015). Therefore, stomach cancer outcomes can affect the health systems and result in a significant burden; it can affect different dimensions of health at the national and international levels (Shrivastava et al., 2015). Although stomach cancer mortality and incidence rates