PURPOSE To describe cancer prevalence and hospital service utilization by prevalent cancer patients in Western Australia from 1992 to 2011. METHODS This study was a population-based cohort study using the Western Australia (WA) Cancer Registry (1982 to 2011) as the source of incident cancer cases. These data were linked to mortality (1982 to 2011) and hospital morbidity (1998 to 2011) records...

background: tumor lysis syndrome caused by widespread tumor cell damage may lead to electrolyte imbalances and express as metabolic disturbance causing clinical abnormalities. patients and methods: all patients younger than 16 years with documented malignancy candidate for chemotherapy, in hamedan province of iran were enrolled. results: out of 69 cancer patients the laboratory form of tumor ly...

Multiple-day diet records can be unsuitable for cohort studies because of high administrative and analytical costs. Costs could be reduced if a subsample of participants were analyzed in a nested case-control study. However, completed records are usually reviewed ("documented") with participants to correct errors and omissions before analysis. The authors evaluated the suitability of using undo...

Oral Cancer is one of the leading causes deaths in India. Despite growing innovations and trends field oral cancer diagnosis management, prevalence rate deadly disease keeps escalating. a debilitating disease, numerous research activities are being pursued worldwide to combat this deleterious process. Nanotechnology very diverse that has revolutionized industry setting new management cancer. He...

the previous studies reported some information about prevalence release of high-risk hpv types in hsil or cervical cancer globally and in iran, however, this information is not enough for final judgment about vaccination against hpv or any screening program. the aim of the present study was to assess the hpv type distribution in hsil and icc specimens of women attending shahid beheshti universi...

BACKGROUND The reported proportion of cancer patients who experience hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) ranges between 3% and 30%. HCM can be observed with any type of tumor and occurs most commonly in lung cancer, breast cancer and multiple myeloma. While HCM is a potentially fatal condition, the prevalence of HCM is not well defined. METHODS Using the United Kingdom Clinical Practice Researc...

Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Prevalence and E6 Protein Expression in Gastric Cancer Tissue Samples Compared with Non-malignant Control Groups East Azerbaijan Province, Iran, 2021

BACKGROUND Lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations are not part of cancer surveillance, resulting in scarce information about the cancer survivorship of these populations. To address this information gap, the authors examined the prevalence of cancer survivorship by sexual orientation and cancer survivors' self-reported health by sexual orientation. METHODS The authors explored these issues by...

BACKGROUND In this first article of what is planned to be an annual series, we examine the history of cancer prevalence reporting and the role that these annual figures play in guiding the direction of cancer control research, and specifically the science of cancer survivorship. For this inaugural year, we focus on the confluence of the growing number of survivors and population aging, and the ...