INTRODUCTION Cancer prostate (CaP) is a commonly diagnosed cancer in western men, but there is sparse information about the demographics of this malignancy in Pakistan. The study objective was to provide an overview of CaP in Karachi, Pakistan. METHODOLOGY Epidemiological data of 282 incident CaP cases registered at Karachi Cancer Registry (KCR) during 1st January 1995 to 31st December 2002 w...

BACKGROUND Female cancer, especially breast and gynecologic cancers are considered multistage disease, highly influenced by risk and protective factors and/or screening preventive modalities. Consequences of all these factors result in the trend of change over time. METHODS In this comparative study, based on data of national cancer registry of Iran 2004 published by Iranian Ministry of Healt...

background : the incidence of thyroid cancer has varied from 2 per 100,000 in europe to 21 per 100,000 in the hawaiian chinese population and is 2-3 fold more common in females. middle east cancer consortium figures from 1996-2001 have recorded different age standardized incidence rates that ranged from 2 per 100,000 in egypt to 7.5 per 100,000 among israeli jews. in jordan the age standardized...

BACKGROUND Glioma is a heterogeneous central nervous system (CNS) tumor group that encompasses different histological subtypes with high variability in prognosis. The lesions account for almost 80% of primary malignant brain tumors. The aim of this study is to extend our understanding of the glioma epidemiology in the central Tunisian region. MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed 393 gliomas reco...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to survey for the first time the burden and characteristics of corpus uteri cancers in Central Tunisia. DESIGN Characteristics of all cancer cases diagnosed during a 15-year period were analyzed based on the data of the Cancer Registry of the Center of Tunisia. Five-year age-specific rates, crude incidence rates, world age-standardized rates (ASR), and a...

INTRODUCTION No population-based data of cancer incidence from Morocco have been published before. This is the first report of cancer incidence in Rabat from a population-based cancer registry for the period 2006-2008. MATERIALS AND METHODS The cancer registry collects data on all new cases of cancer diagnosed in the resident population of the Rabat area. Data collection is an active process ...

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...