background: there is a variation in trends of oral cancers all over the world. many studies have reported evidence of increasing incidence in oral cancers during recent years. the purpose of this study was to investigate time trends and changes in demographic distribution of oral cancers incidence in isfahan during 1991-2010. materials and methods: in this retrospective analytic study, we colle...

background: epidemiologic aspects of oral and pharyngeal cancers in iran have not been studied adequately. we evaluated age-adjusted incidence rates by sex using pathological confirmed cases between 1991 and 2002 in kerman province, south east­ern iran. methods: the information of cases was collected actively from all of the 18 histopathology departments around the prov­ince. the standardize ri...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The aim of this study was to determine the incidence and relative frequency of oral and pharyngeal cancers in Kermanshah, Iran, from March 1993 until March 2006.METHODS: The data used in this epidemiologic study were extracted directly from pathology records registered in 12 (all) public and private pathology centers of Kermanshah province during the 13-year study period. Th...

background: the role of retinoblastoma (rb) protein in cell cycle regulation prompted us to take up this study with the aim of assessing its role in the progression of oral cancer and to correlate with various clinicopathological parameters, including habits such as smoking, paan chewing, and alcoholism. materials and methods: this observational study included surgical specimens from 10 apparen...

objective: the aim of the present study was to estimate crude and age-standardized incidence rates for oral and pharyngeal nonsquamous cell malignant tumors in kerman province over a period of 11 years. materials and methods: the data used in this retrospective population-based study were extracted from the records registered in all pathology centers of kerman province from 1991 to 2001. all co...

results 89.9 % of dentists managed to support their patients in their efforts to stop smoking, though only 39% believed in their own capacity to assist with tobacco use cessation. dentists reported that 35.4% of their patients aged 40+ had undergone screening for oral cancer during their first visit, whereas 11.6% received regular check-up on a periodic basis. those prone to cancer constituted ...