Open AccessCancer incidence and prevalence in Isfahan: Application of mortality data to estimates and projects for the period 2001-2015
Author(s) -
Mohammad Reza Maracy,
Farhad Moradpour,
Sayed Mohsen Hosseini,
Maryam Tirani
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of preventive medicine/international journal of preventive medicine.
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.539
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 2008-8213
pISSN - 2008-7802
DOI - 10.4103/2008-7802.104858
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , demography , mortality rate , cancer , population , cancer incidence , public health , relative survival , cancer registry , environmental health , surgery , pathology , physics , sociology , optics
The aim of this study was to show up-to-date estimates of incidence and prevalence in Isfahan for all cancers, except non-melanoma skin cancer over the period 2001-2010 to provide projections up to 2015, based on a statistical method that uses mortality and cancer patients' survival data.