background: in iran colorectal cancer (crc) incidence varies among various places. but we do not have any validate data that deeply explored the difference of crc in kerman province by national average. the aim of this study was to evaluate the incidence of colon cancer within a 12-year period in kerman province and to find whether the incidence of crc in kerman compared with the total incidenc...

conclusions overall, cancer incidence rates had increased in both sexes. many factors were responsible, such as changes in lifestyle, environmental factors, increased life expectancy, improvements in the registration systems, and declining mortality rates due to early detection and treatment. the results of this study provided useful information for the prediction of changes in the incidence an...

background: cancer registries are important infrastructure for cancer control programs. however most developing countries lack population based cancer registry. in iran there cancer incidence is estimated based on pathology-based cancer registry. in this study we evaluated results of the nationwide pathology-based cancer registry in iran. materials and methods: we compared age-standardized inci...

This paper evaluates the imaging appearance of radiation injury in the liver on positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) in patients with distal esophageal cancer who underwent pre-operative chemoradiation therapy. Twenty-six patients with distal esophageal cancer who received chemoradiotherapy before esophagectomy were included. All patients had baseline and follow-up PET/CT...

background : the age standardized incidence rates of esophageal cancer in women and men in iran have the fifth and eighth ranks, respectively. due to the high incidence rate of esophageal cancer and the necessity of knowledge of its geographical distribution, the incidence of this cancer was mapped at province and county levels in the present study. methods: the study population of this empiric...

background: esophageal cancer is the second most common malignancy in iranian men and third most common in iranian women.the aim of this study is to discover the geographic distribution for age-standardized incidence rate of esophageal cancer among both genders in iran. methods: this ecological study used re-analysis medical records aggregated to provinces from the national cancer registry and ...

compared to western countries, pancreatic cancer has a relatively low incidence in iran. it is rarely diagnosed before the fifth decade in iran and most of the patients are older than 60 at the time of diagnosis like to the western countries, where pancreatic cancer is a disease of advanced age. the incidence of the disease in some young patients suggests a possible role of genetic defects, whi...