BACKGROUND Idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) is a fatal disorder with a prevalence of 8.6 per million. We introduce a registry website for IPAH and PAH patients ( www.IPAH.ir) for access and efficient delivery of government-aided and subsidized antihypertensive medications. MATERIALS AND METHODS The IPAH registry was opened in November 2009. Information of IPAH and PAH patient...

BACKGROUND There have been only a limited number of trend analyses of incidence and mortality using population-based cancer registry data in Japan, and the national statistics regarding incidence are estimated data. In the present study, data from the Fukui Prefecture cancer registry, which is the most accurate in Japan, were used to observe trends in incidence and mortality rates. METHODS Ca...

OBJECTIVES To explore the clinical associations of thick melanoma and to compare the clinicopathological variables of nodular and superficial spreading types. DESIGN Cross-sectional study of all invasive primary melanomas recorded by the Victorian Cancer Registry for 1998 and those reviewed by the Victorian Melanoma Service between October 1, 1994, and April 31, 1999. SETTING Population-bas...

Information collected in a clinical study on a random sample of 99 patients with inoperable lung cancer, treated with radiotherapy, was compared to the staging information in the Maastricht cancer registry. Validity of sex (0% disagreements), date of birth (0%), histology (1% major disagreements) and treatment (1%) was high, but the validity of stage was lower: 12% major and 23% minor disagreem...

BACKGROUND Few prospective studies have examined cancer incidence among vegetarians. OBJECTIVE We report cancer incidence among vegetarians and nonvegetarians in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition-Oxford (EPIC-Oxford) study. DESIGN This was a prospective study of 63,550 men and women recruited throughout the United Kingdom in the 1990s. Cancer incidence was fol...

The population of cancer survivors has grown steadily over the past several decades. Surviving cancer, however, is not synonymous with a life free of problems related to the disease and its treatment. In this paper we provide a brief overview of selected physical and psychosocial health problems prevalent among cancer survivors, namely pain, fatigue, psychological distress and work participatio...

Nieto and Coresh (1) are reviewing alternative methods for presenting adjusted survival curves. The proposed new method is a special case of the Ederer II method currently used at cancer registries worldwide. In addition, there are other frequently used methods for adjusting for deaths and censorings that are not mentioned. It is important to state the context in which any adjusted survival cur...

The Northern Ireland Cancer Registry was evaluated using a 5% sample of all cancers diagnosed histologically in 1983 as the standard for comparison. The overall registration rate was low. Two years following histological diagnosis only 63% of the cancers were registered and 19% of these were notified solely by the Registrar General's office. In a subgroup of patients who were known to have died...

1Instituto de Pesca-APTA-SAA/SP, Caixa Postal 157, Cananéia, SP 11990-000, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] (corresponding author) 2Universidade Federal Dos Vales Do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, Diamantina, MG 39100-000, Brazil 3Laboratório de Ictiogenética, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, SP 05508-090, Brazil. PCR-RFLP PARA IDENTIFICAÇÃO DE OSTRAS PERLÍFERAS (Pinctada imbr...

BACKGROUND Lung cancer is the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in China. Along with socioeconomic development, environmental problems have intensified and the burden of lung cancer continues to increase. METHODS In this study, national cancer registry data was used for evaluating incidence, mortality, time trend, and prediction. RESULTS In China in 2010, 605 900 pati...