abstract aim: to analysis the epidemiological and clinopathological aspects of gastric cancer. methods: we retrospectively studied the characteristics of 752 gastric carcinoma patients registered in cancer registry center of taleghani hospital from 2001 to 2006. all the patients confirmed gastric cancer histopathologically. univariate methods (mann-whitney u-test, and chi-square) were used for ...

background: â maintenance of health and its fair and just promotion in any society is the responsibility and duty of its respective government. appropriate financial allocations and prudent decisions in the health sector requires the definition of an index that would reveal the loss resulting from early deaths of any cause and originate from disabilities due to nonfatal outcomes. the disability...

aim : this study aims to investigate some clinical and pathologic factors associated with the prognosis of patients with colon and rectum cancers separately. background : colorectal cancer is the most common cancer of the digestive system and also the fourth cause of cancer-related deaths around the world. different studies indicate that survival of patients with colorectal cancer has improved ...

BACKGROUND For health care performance indicators (PIs) to be reliable, data underlying the PIs are required to be complete, accurate, consistent and reproducible. Given the lack of regulation of the data-systems used in the Netherlands, and the self-report based indicator scores, one would expect heterogeneity with respect to the data collection and the ways indicators are computed. This might...

addiction is a phenomenon that causes structural changes in different systems of society. studies show for planning of addiction prevention and treatment, it is necessary to create an information management system. substance dependence information systems refer to systems which collect, analyse and report data related to substance dependence information. the aim of this study was to identify ad...

background : cancer incidence rate is increasing in the world particularly in developing countries. the awareness regarding cancer incidence and distribution helps policy makers and researchers to design comprehensive plan for controlling cancer. the aim of this study was to determine the incidence rate and trend of cancer in yazd province, centeral iran. methods : data from yazd cancer registr...

Registries have key roles in cancer incidence, mortality and survival monitoring and in showing disparities across the population. Incidence monitoring began in New South Wales in 1972 and other jurisdictions soon followed. Registry data are used to evaluate outcomes of preventive, screening, treatment and support services. They have shown decreases in cancer incidence following interventions a...