LOCAL HOSPITAL REGISTRY.-At one end of the scale is the local registry serving just one hospital. This type, which is found in an increasing number of cancer hospitals all over the world, has as its essential element a file of all cancer patients seen, and its main functions are to ensure that case records contain sufficiently detailed information on site, type, stage of the disease, and treatm...

This study presents the first population-based report on breast cancer in the Islamic Republic of Iran using data derived from a cancer registry. A retrospective study was conducted to find all new breast cancer cases in 5 provinces covered by the cancer registry during the 5-year period 1996-2000. There were 2421 cases recorded in the 5 registries. The age-standardized incidence rate (ASR) was...

Introduction Progress in cancer prevention and treatment depends on the collection and analysis of reliable information about the incidence, risk factors, and progression of cancer in the Canadian population. Every jurisdiction in Canada has a public cancer registry, operated by a cancer agency or subsumed within another government department or ministry. These registries contain comprehensive ...

The early cancer studies on immigrants, which started to appear some 50 years ago, showed that the incidence in cancers changes to the level of the new host country in one or two generations. These findings were fundamental to the understanding of the environmental etiology of human cancer. Many immigrant groups originate from countries with no cancer registration, and, hence, the immigrant stu...

Background and Objective Genderand age-specific differences in melanoma incidence are poorly defined in the literature. The purpose of this study was to evaluate such gender-and age-related differences in melanoma incidence rates using large population-based U.S. datasets. Methods Data for this study were obtained from three cancer registries: the Cancer Surveillance Program of Orange County/Sa...

Timely monitoring of trends in long-term patient survival is an important task of cancer registries. Recently, a new method, denoted period analysis, has been proposed to enhance up-to-date monitoring of survival. The authors assessed the use of period analysis for advanced detection of time trends in long-term cancer patient survival based on data from the nationwide Finnish Cancer Registry by...

During the last 20 years, India has emerged as a fast growing economy with changes in lifestyle-related behavior partially responsible for the increasing cancer burden. While cancer incidence rates are lower than many western countries some changes over recent decades have emerged. This paper examines the time trends in cancer-specific incidence from six population-based cancer registries in In...

Background: Bladder cancer is the 10th most common cancer worldwide. We aimed to assess the prevalence of bladder cancer in the Kerman Province, in southeast Iran. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, we used data on 1272 patients with bladder cancer registered in the Kerman population-based cancer registry from 2014 to 2017. There were two parts of data including observed dat...

BACKGROUND Several previous studies have documented region or country-specific liver cancer incidence trends around the world. However, no study has systematically examined the international pattern using the most recently updated incidence data from the International Agency for Research on Cancer. METHODS We examined recent trends in liver cancer incidence rates from 1993 to 2002 by joinpoin...