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...

background and aims: the aim of this study was the modeling of the incidence rates of colorectal, breast and prostate cancers using a shared component model in order to explore the spatial pattern of their shared risk factors (i.e., obesity and low physical activity) affecting on cancer incidence, and also to estimate the relative weight of these shared components. methods: in this study, the ...

background : nasopharyngeal carcinoma (npc) is known as a highly distinct kind of head and neck cancer. this distinction is due to its clinical presentation, epidemiology, outcome, and treatment. there have not been any reports of epidemiological analysis of npc in iran. the aim of this study is to evaluate the incidence rates and trends of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in the iranian population dur...

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...

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...

abstract objective: colorectal cancer is a common (5000 new cases per year in iran) and lethal disease. regarding the high incidence (7 cases per 100000) and survival rate of colorectal cancer and the priority of prevalence index in cancer management, in this study, 1, 2-3 and 4-5 year point prevalence were determined according to survival data. method: in this study, survival and incidence dat...

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 ...