background: stomach cancer has the highest prevalence of gastrointestinal cancer in iran. therefore, the aim of this study was mapping stomach cancer rate in iran using area-to-area poisson kriging.   methods: data of 336 cities in iran was analyzed that was gathered by the ministry of health and medical education (in the non-infectious diseases management center) from 2003 to 2007. area-to-are...

Background and aim: Non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC) are one of the most prevalent malignancies of the human. Although the morality rate is not high for these cancers, they may cause high morbility for the patients. In addition to the skin type, factors such as sun exposure, head and neck radiotherapy, inappropriate use of sunscreen and cultural changes may increase the incidence of these...

Background and aims: The aim of this study was the modeling of the incidence rates of Colorectal, breast and prostate cancers using a shared component model in order to explore the spatial pattern of their shared risk factors (i.e., obesity and low physical activity) affecting on cancer incidence, and also to estimate the relative weight of these shared components. Methods: In this study,...

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...

abstract introduction: bladder cancer is the most common tumor of the urinary tract and the ninth cancer in terms of incidence in both sexes in the world. bladder cancer is the second most common cancer in men in iran. this study aimed to investigate the trend of death from bladder cancer in iran.materials and methods: this study was conducted by the use of data on mortality in iran during 2006...

background: considering the importance of updating information about incidence and mortality of common or fatal cancers and the need for studying the effectiveness   of   changes   in   the   iranian   cancer   registration   system   from pathological based to population based since 2007, the aim of this study was to provide updated population based information on incidence and mortality rates...

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...