The objectives of this study were to document the background prevalence and incidence of HCV infection among HCWs in Ain Shams University Hospitals in Cairo and analyse the risk factors for HCV infection. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2008 among 1770 HCWs. Anti-HCV prevalence was age-standardized using the Cairo population. A prospective cohort was followed for a period of 18 months...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the epidemiology of prostate cancer in Iranian men. We carried out an active prostate cancer surveillance program in five provinces of Iran. METHODS Data used in this study were obtained from population-based cancer registries between 1996 and 2000. RESULTS The age-standardized incidence rate of prostate carcinoma in the five provinces was 5.1 per 100,000 pe...

BACKGROUND Few studies have addressed the secular trend of malignancies in developing countries such as Iran. This study aimed to determine the trend in the incidence of gastrointestinal cancers during a period of 15 years in Kermanshah, Iran. METHODS All of the confirmed positive pathologic reports for esophageal, gastric and colorectal cancers from 1993 to 2007 were collected and compared w...

AIM To investigate the incidence of colorectal cancer in the Split-Dalmatia County in the 1981-1998 period, and compare it with the incidence in the Republic of Croatia. METHODS The data were obtained using case records and registries of all hospitals and Public Health Institute in the County and the Croatian Cancer Registry. Age-standardized incidence per 100,000 was calculated from the numb...

PURPOSE For estimation of Korea's current cancer burden, this study aimed to report on the projected cancer incidence and mortality rates for the year 2015. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cancer incidence data from 1999 to 2012 were obtained from the Korea National Cancer Incidence Database, and cancer mortality data from 1993 to 2013 were acquired from Statistics Korea. The cancer incidence in 2015 w...

background: environment of basrah is seriously contaminated with chemical leukomogens as a result of recent military conflicts. many studies in the past few years have reported an increase in the incidence of leukemia in basrah. this study was designed to study the risk and pattern of childhood leukemia in basrah, iraq, from 2003 to 2007.materials and methods: this hospital-based cancer registr...

The impact of cardiovascular disease was compared in non-diabetics and diabetics in the Framingham cohort. In the first 20 years of the study about 6% of the women and 8% of the men were diagnosed as diabetics. The incidence of cardiovascular disease among diabetic men was twice that among nondiabetic men. Among diabetic women the incidence of cardiovascular disease was three times that among n...

Colon cancer is in fact the most common gastrointestinal cancer in Malaysia. A total of 2,866 cases were registered with National Cancer Registry of Malaysia in 2006 representing only 13.2% of all registered cases. The overall Age Standardized Incidence (ASR) was 18.4 per 100,000 populations. The incidence was higher among males (ASR 21.6 per 100,000) compared to females (ASR 15.4 per 100,000 p...