Background: Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide and also in Iran. Understanding bladder epidemiology great value for policymakers assists prevention early detection disease. Objectives: The aim present study was to report national subnational incidence trends Iran between 2003 2015. Methods: This investigated age-standardized rates (ASIRs) per annum from 2015 using data r...

BACKGROUND In Iran, bladder cancer is one of the most common malignancy sites among men, ranking as the fifth with age-specific incidence rate of about 11.2 per 100,000 males. It causes 8% of all malignancies in men and 3% of all malignancies in women. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to report the epidemiological, clinical, and pathological features of bladder cancer in Western Iran comp...

Oral cancer is considered a great threat to public health. Tongue cancer accounts for nearly 30% of all oral cancers and usually seen in 50 to 60 year old men. Oropharyngeal cancers account for 3% of all cancers in Iran; as reported in 2003. The present study was designed to assess the epidemiologic and clinicopathologic characteristics of tongue cancer patients in two Tehran's referral univers...

The pattern of primary brain tumors have not been reported in Iran and the etiology remains largely unknown. The need for current estimation of geographical and secular variation is clear. The purpose of this study was to review cases of brain tumors treated in Shariatti hospital, a neurosurgical center, over the twenty five years from 1978 to 2003. A descriptive, retrospective study was made o...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to estimate the burden of disease and injury in Iran for the year 2003, using Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) at the national level and for six selected provinces. METHODS Methods developed by the World Health Organization for National Burden of Disease (NBD) studies were applied to estimate disease and injury incidence for the calculation of ...

BACKGROUND Human cystic echinococcosis (hydatidosis) continues to be an essential cause of morbidity and mortality in many parts of the world. METHODS We studied hydatid cyst pattern in hospitalized adult patients from 2003 to 2012 in Mashhad and Neyshabour, northeast of Iran. RESULTS Overall, 1342 patients, 711 females (53%) and 631 males (47%) diagnosed as infected with hydatid cyst were ...

OBJECTIVE The paper presents a new trend of weight-for-height index of 2397 school children (1268 boys and 1129 girls) aged 6.5-11.5 years by sex in a representative sample from primary schools of Shiraz (Southern Iran) at an interval of 15 years (1988-2003) and its relation to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data (2000). METHODS The data relate to a multi-stage random sam...