Association of reproductive factors with the incidence of breast cancer in Gulf Cooperation Council countries.

Onm-4: Reproductive Factors and Breast Cancer Incidence in Premenopousal Patients: A Case-Control Study

Background: Menstrual characteristics may serve as surrogate measures of endogenous estrogen and may be related to breast cancer risk. This case-control study investigated the relationship between menstrual factors and risk of breast cancer incidence in Iranian Center for Breast Cancer (ICBC). Materials and Methods: Forty seven Cases of breast cancer referred to ICBC and 77 controls were studie...

Business Cycle Synchronization and Patterns of Trade: Cases from Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

 Do similarities in trade patterns of GCC countries (UAE, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman), which are geographically and politically alike and also enjoy oil income, affect the synchronization of their business cycles and make them have similar booms and busts? In this paper, we attempt to connect these two features and explore this question. Using various estimation methods (Common Corre...

Incidence of cancer in Gulf Cooperation Council countries, 1998-2001.

We describe the patterns of cancer incidence for common cancers in Gulf Cooperation Council countries during 1998-2001. A total of 32,291 cases of cancer were diagnosed (16,342 in males; 15,949 in females). Male preponderance was observed only in Saudi Arabia and Oman. The age-standardized incidence of all malignancies per 100,000 in both sexes was highest in Qatar followed by Bahrain, Kuwait, ...

Travel Medicine in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on the Human Development in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: An Empirical Study

The main goal of this study is to investigate the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on human development in the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), particularly, the effect of ICT development index on the three-key component of human development; income, health, and education. The study focused on the years 2005-2014. Based on the theoretical background explaine...