INTRODUCTION By the early 21(st) century the most common cancer of female genitals in Poland was cervical cancer. Now endometrial cancer ranks first. The aim of this study was to analyse the incidence and mortality of endometrial and cervical cancer among women in the Lodz region. MATERIAL AND METHODS Data on the incidence and mortality of endometrial and cervical cancer among inhabitants of ...

BACKGROUND/PURPOSE Identifying trends in the prevalence and incidence of Parkinson's disease (PD) may yield information that supports public health goals. Our aim was to evaluate time-trend changes in the prevalence and incidence of PD in Taiwan between 2004 and 2011. METHODS This retrospective, nationwide, longitudinal study used the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database to iden...

OBJECTIVE The burden of cervical cancer varies considerably in the European Union. In this paper, we describe trends in incidence of and mortality from this cancer in the five most affected member states. METHODS Data on number of deaths from uterine cancers and the size of the female population of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria and Romania were extracted from the WHO mortality database...

OBJECTIVE Striking geographic variation and marked increasing secular trends characterize the incidence of testicular cancer. However, it is not known whether these patterns have attenuated in recent years and whether they are similar for seminomas and nonseminomas, the two main histologic groups of testicular cancer. METHOD Cancer registry data, including 27,030 testicular cancer cases, were...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the most common malignant tumour among women. About 15,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed and more than 5,000 women die in Poland every year. The aim of this study was to analyse the incidence and mortality rate of breast cancer among women in Poland in the years 2001-2010. MATERIAL AND METHODS Analysed data concerning the incidence of and mortality fro...

background: considering the importance of updating information about incidence and mortality of common or fatal cancers and the need for studying the effectiveness   of   changes   in   the   iranian   cancer   registration   system   from pathological based to population based since 2007, the aim of this study was to provide updated population based information on incidence and mortality rates...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess cancer incidence and mortality for all-causes and factors related to risk of death in an Italian cohort of HIV infected unselected patients as compared to the general population. METHODS We conducted a retrospective (1986-2012) cohort study on 16 268 HIV infected patients enrolled in the MASTER cohort. The standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) and standardized mor...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer (BC) in young women of Podkarpackie province accounts for approximately 11.0% of all diagnosed breast tumors. AIM OF THE STUDY Aim of the study was to assess the trends in incidence of BC among women younger than 44 from Podkarpackie in the years 2002-2011. MATERIAL AND METHODS 614 cases of malignant BC and 26 cases of cancer in situ were analyzed. The crude and t...

BACKGROUND Population based cancer registry is inevitable to measure the indicators of cancer. This retrospective study was conducted to perform the age specific incidence and age standardized rate of cancer by sex, age and sites in Nepal, 2012. MATERIALS AND METHODS The data collected by hospital based National cancer registry programme of Nepal were used to calculate the age specific incide...

AIMS Data on the epidemiology of atrial fibrillation (AF) and its antithrombotic management in elderly populations are scarce. The aims of this study were to estimate the incidence and prevalence of AF in the elderly in Germany and to describe antithrombotic management of AF cases. METHODS AND RESULTS Estimation of prevalence and incidence was based on data of three German statutory health in...