Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide and its incidence is expected to increase in the future. In Panama, cancer is also one of the leading causes of death. In 1964, a nationwide cancer registry was started and it was restructured and improved in 2012. The aim of this study is to utilize Joinpoint regression analysis to study the trends of the incidence and mortality of cancer ...

BACKGROUND Ethics is one of the main pillars in the development of science. We performed a JoinPoint regression analysis to analyze the trends of ethical issue research over the past half century. The question is whether ethical issues are neglected despite their importance in modern research. METHOD PubMed electronic library was used to retrieve publications of all fields and ethical issues....

A large part of converting a pre-AOP application into an aspect-oriented one consists, next to aspect mining, out of aspect refactoring. One such aspect refactoring named “Extract Method Calls” refactoring [11, 17] transforms certain crosscutting concerns which are implemented by calls to a single method into an aspect by turning the called method into an advice and all the calls to that method...

BACKGROUND Limited data on mortality from malignant lymphatic and hematopoietic neoplasms have been published for Serbia. METHODS The study covered population of Serbia during the 1991-2010 period. Mortality trends were assessed using the joinpoint regression analysis. RESULTS Trend for overall death rates from malignant lymphoid and haematopoietic neoplasms significantly decreased: by -2.1...

Cancer has been the most common cause of death in Korea since 1983 and is a major public concern. The aim of this study was to analyze the secular trend of cancer mortality in Korea from 1983 to 2007. Mortality and population data from 1983 to 2007 were obtained from the Korea Statistical Office. The annual cancer death rates for 18 age groups were estimated, and joinpoint regression was applie...

BACKGROUND Suicide is among the top 20 leading causes of death globally in all age groups and it is still a significant social and public health problem. METHODS Data on suicide deaths in 1987-2011 were extracted from the Turkish Statistical Institute mortality dataset based on ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes. The temporal trend in age-standardized suicide rates was tested for age, gender and methods ...

Introduction and Aim Tuberculosis (TB) poses a severe risk to public health through the world but excessively distresses low-income nations. The aim of this study is to analyze silent changes of TB in Iran (2005-2015): A joinpoint regression analysis. Materials and Methods This is a trend study conducted on all patients (n = 70) that register in control disease center of Joibar (one of coasta...