Head and neck cancers are a varied group depending on the histopathological and/or anatomical definition one chooses to adopt. The oral cavity, oropharynx, nasopharynx, larynx and hypopharynx are most affected and often the histology is squamous cell carcinoma. Looking at them as a group their incidence worldwide varies dependent on gender, prevalence of smoking anatomic site and geographical r...

The aim of this study was to show that age-adjusted cancer incidence rates for an area may not be representative of the incidence in subareas. We propose a simple measure to show the amount of geographical variability. European age-standardized incidence rates (ASRs) for 'all sites excluding nonmelanoma skin cancer', for men, in 2014, for Nordic countries as a whole, for each country (Denmark, ...

background breast cancer (bc) is the most common cancer in iranian women. studying the mortality statistics is important to monitor the effects of screening programs or the influence of earlier diagnosis on the burden of this chronic disease. misclassification is still a problem in the iranian death registry data and about 20% of death statistics are recorded in misclassified categories. object...

Standard descriptive methods for the analysis of cancer surveillance data include canonical plots based on the lexis diagram, directly age-standardized rates (ASR), estimated annual percentage change (EAPC), and joinpoint regression. The age-period-cohort (APC) model has been used less often. Here, we argue that it merits much broader use. First, we describe close connections between estimable ...

Standard automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems use acoustic models typically trained with speech of young adult speakers. Ageing is known to alter speech production in ways that require ASR systems to be adapted, in particular at the level of acoustic modeling. This paper reports ASR experiments that illustrate the impact of speaker age on speech recognition performance. A large read speec...

Introduction: Each year, 10 million people are faced with cancer and about 6 million of them die throughout the world. This study aimed at investigating the geographical distribution of cancer and its environmental risk factors in Iran. Methods: The present study was mapping the available data collected from the reports of Iranian Center for Disease Control (Cancer Bureau) regarding the frequen...

Methods: The analysis was based on annual reports of Ministry of Health and Federal State Statistics Service on cases, deaths and person-years by gender, age, calendar year and region. Age-specific and age-adjusted rates were calculated. Additionally, the average annual percent change (AAPC) with 95% confidence interval (95% CI), derived from a Poisson regression model, was estimated. Excess or...

Abstract Background Antituberculosis-drug resistance is an important public health issue, and its epidemiological patterns has dramatically changed in recent decades. This study aimed to estimate the trends of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which can be used inform strategies. Methods Data were collected from Global Burden Disease 2017. The estimated annual percentage changes (EAPCs...

Background : Thyroid cancer is the most common type of endocrine cancer. We aimed to determine incidence rates thyroid across a 10-year period (2004-2013) in Golestan, Iran. Methods obtained data from Golestan Population-Based Cancer Registry (GPCR). Age-standardized (ASR) were calculated and reported per 100000 person-years. The Joinpoint software was used assess time trends, average annual pe...

BACKGROUND Malignancies of the female reproductive tract are estimated to be the third most common group of cancers in women. OBJECTIVES We here aimed to present their epidemiological features in Golestan province located in Northeast of Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data on primary female reproductive cancers diagnosed between 2004-2010 were obtained from Golestan Population-based Cancer Reg...