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. 2019 Aug:61:50-58.
doi: 10.1016/j.canep.2019.05.009. Epub 2019 May 25.

Cancer incidence in Iran in 2014: Results of the Iranian National Population-based Cancer Registry

Gholamreza Roshandel  1 , Ali Ghanbari-Motlagh  2 , Elham Partovipour  3 , Fereshteh Salavati  3 , Susan Hasanpour-Heidari  4 , Gohar Mohammadi  5 , Mostafa Khoshaabi  3 , Alireza Sadjadi  6 , Masoud Davanlou  7 , Seyed-Mohammad Tavangar  8 , Hakimeh Abadi  9 , Abasali Asgari  10 , Mohamadreza Behrooz  11 , Maria Cheraghi  12 , Leila Danechin  13 , Roya Dolatkhah  14 , Floria Enferadi  15 , Soodabeh Esshaghi  16 , Mohsen Farahani  17 , Solmaz Farrokhzad  18 , Mansooreh Fateh  19 , Siamak Vahedi  20 , Arash Golpazir  21 , Mahdieh Hasanzadeh  22 , Narjes Hazar  23 , Hosein Hoseini-Hoshyar  24 , Mohsen Izadi  25 , Ali Jafarnia  26 , Mahdi Jahantigh  27 , Ahmad Jalilvand  28 , Mehrdad Jazayeri  29 , Parvin Joola  30 , Yasan Kazemzadeh  31 , Maryam Khalednejad  32 , Maryam Kooshki  33 , Amineh Madani  34 , Reza Malekpour-Afshar  35 , Amir-Hossein Bayat  36 , Zeinab Moinfar  37 , Hosein Mohamadifar  38 , Gholamhasan Mohamadzadeh  39 , Rita Motidost-Komleh  40 , Mahboobeh Narooei  41 , Sharareh Niksiar  42 , Habibollah Pirnejad  43 , Azadeh Poornajaf  44 , Gita Pourshahi  45 , Amir Rahnama  46 , Bahman Rashidpour  47 , Zahra Ravankhah  48 , Khadijeh Rezaei  49 , Abbas Rezaeianzadeh  50 , Gholamreza Sadeghi  51 , Athar Shahdadi  52 , Mehraban Shahi  53 , Zahra Sharafi  54 , Farroq Sharifi-Moghadam  55 , Ali Soleimani  56 , Maryam Soltany-Hojatabad  57 , Zeinab Tahmasebi  58 , Sohrab Yadolahi  59 , Majid Yaghoubi-Ashrafi  60 , Hamed Zandian  61 , Aliakbar Zareiyan  62 , Hossein Poustchi  6 , Kazem Zendehdel  63 , Afshin Ostovar  64 , Ghasem Janbabaei  65 , Alireza Reisi  66 , Reza Malekzadeh  67
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Cancer incidence in Iran in 2014: Results of the Iranian National Population-based Cancer Registry

Gholamreza Roshandel et al. Cancer Epidemiol. 2019 Aug.

Abstract

Background: We aimed to report, for the first time, the results of the Iranian National Population-based Cancer Registry (INPCR) for the year 2014.

Methods: Total population of Iran in 2014 was 76,639,000. The INPCR covered 30 out of 31 provinces (98% of total population). It registered only cases diagnosed with malignant new primary tumors. The main sources for data collection included pathology center, hospitals as well as death registries. Quality assessment and analysis of data were performed by CanReg-5 software. Age standardized incidence rates (ASR) (per 100,000) were reported at national and subnational levels.

Results: Overall, 112,131 new cancer cases were registered in INPCR in 2014, of which 60,469 (53.9%) were male. The diagnosis of cancer was made by microscopic confirmation in 76,568 cases (68.28%). The ASRs of all cancers were 177.44 and 141.18 in male and female, respectively. Cancers of the stomach (ASR = 21.24), prostate (18.41) and colorectum (16.57) were the most common cancers in men and the top three cancers in women were malignancies of breast (34.53), colorectum (11.86) and stomach (9.44). The ASR of cervix uteri cancer in women was 1.78. Our findings suggested high incidence of cancers of the esophagus, stomach and lung in North/ North West of Iran.

Conclusion: Our results showed that Iran is a medium-risk area for incidence of cancers. We found differences in the most common cancers in Iran comparing to those reported for the World. Our results also suggested geographical diversities in incidence rates of cancers in different subdivisions of Iran.

Keywords: Cancer; Iran; Population surveillance; Registries.

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