Global Trends in Gynaecological Cancers.

Cancers of the Brain and CNS: Global Patterns and Trends in Incidence

Miranda-Filho et al. in their recently published paper entitled “Cancers of the brain and CNS: global patterns and trends in incidence” provided a global status report of the geographic and temporal variations in the incidence of brain and CNS cancers in different countries across continents worldwide. While the authors confirm the role of genetic risk factors and ionizing radiation exposur...

1Epidemiology of gynaecological cancers

Epidemiology is the basic science underpinning public health and clinical medicine. It describes the occurrence of health-related states or events (incidence, prevalence), quantifies the risk of disease (relative risk) and its outcome (prognosis, survival, mortality), and postulates causal mechanisms for disease in populations (aetiology, prevention). The main function of epidemiology is to pro...

Screening Methods for Gynaecological Cancers

Age-related mTOR in gynaecological cancers

Aging is an uninvited sequel of organismal growth and the ultimacy of which is death. At the molecular level, organismal aging is a conversion from cellular quiescence to senescence state. Age is a major risk factor for many diseases including diabetes, obesity, neurodegenerative disorders, and cancer. Other consequences of aging are not defined by diseases, but rather considered ‘stages of lif...

Pattern of gynaecological cancers in Ghana.

OBJECTIVE To determine the relative frequencies of gynaecological cancers in Ghana, age and parity distribution, stage of disease at presentation and the influence of age and parity on stage at presentation. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. SETTING Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana. SUBJECTS Cases of gynaecological cancers seen in a fifty two month period. RESULTS Cervic...