background: due to the marked increase in the burden of cancer both in the developed and developing countries, world health organization recommends planning and implementation of comprehensive cancer control program in all countries. we evaluated evolutionary progress of the population based cancer registries (pbcr), an essential component of the cancer control program. methods: we studied freq...

abstract: introduction: this study was conducted to determine the outcomes of the project of ‘integration of breast cancer screening and early detection’ into primary health care (phc) system and to detect the incidence rate, mortality rate and the stage of reported breast cancers, during the timeframe of the project in shahre-kord. method: a prospective cohort study was conducted, reviewing me...

Background & Aims: In the western countries, bladder cancer is the fourth and eighth common cancer in males and females, respectively, and like other cancers it has been significantly increasing in last years. The aim of this study was to find out the epidemiology of bladder cancer in Fars province /Iran during 2003-2008 according to cancer registry data system. Methods: In this epidemiological...

Background: As the third leading cause of death, cancers have a special place in the Iranian health system. Several studies have been done in some regions of the country with few years of follow-ups, but this was the first standardized study to investigate the incidence trends of colorectal cancer in Iran in a one-decade period.   Methods: The registered data for colorectal cancer cases...

introduction: in spite of the vast improvement in the area of mental health care delivery in this country, very little attention has been given to the mental health registry. considering the absence of an appropriate national mental health registry system in iran, the purpose of the present study was to formulate a preliminary model for mental health registry in iran. methods: in this comparati...

background: cancer registries are important infrastructure for cancer control programs. however most developing countries lack population based cancer registry. in iran there cancer incidence is estimated based on pathology-based cancer registry. in this study we evaluated results of the nationwide pathology-based cancer registry in iran. materials and methods: we compared age-standardized inci...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic disease of central nervous system. the multiple sclerosis information system (msis), such as other information system (is), depends on identification, collection and processing of data for producing useful information. lack of the integrated is for collecting standard data causes undesirable effects on exchanging, comparing, and managing. the aim of this stu...