background breast cancer is still considered as one of the most common female cancers worldwide regardless of the countries’ level of development. this study determines the incidence of breast cancer in fars province, southern iran. methods this study used patients' records from shiraz university of medical sciences cancer registry centre, which is a hospital-based registry of nemazee hosp...

Background and aim: Head and neck cancers are the tenth most common cancers worldwide. Since these cancers can cause severe complications and mortality, early diagnosis and investigation of their prevalence in various regions may be life-saving. Therefore, this study evaluated the prevalence of head and neck cancer over a 10-year period in Gilan province, Iran. Materials and methods: This is a...

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...

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...

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...

PURPOSE Epidemiologic information on rare cancers is scarce. The project Surveillance of Rare Cancers in Europe (RARECARE) provides estimates of the incidence, prevalence and survival of rare cancers in Europe based on a new and comprehensive list of these diseases. MATERIALS AND METHODS RARECARE analysed population-based cancer registry (CR) data on European patients diagnosed from 1988 to 2...