{"entity":{"id":"paper-inpcr-2014-roshandel-cancer-epidemiol-2019","kind":"paper","name":"Cancer incidence in Iran in 2014: results of the Iranian National Population-based Cancer Registry","aka":[],"tldr":"The first published national count from Iran's population-based cancer registry: 112,131 new cancers registered in 2014, with stomach cancer commonest in men and breast cancer in women.","summary":"The first report of the Iranian National Population-based Cancer Registry, for 2014. Iran's population that year was 76,639,000; the registry covered 30 of 31 provinces (98% of the population) and registered only malignant new primary tumours, from pathology centres, hospitals and death registries, with quality checks and analysis in CanReg-5. Age-standardised rates per 100,000 were reported nationally and by province.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Cancer Epidemiol 2019","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2019.05.009"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31132560/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["gastric","breast-cancer","colorectal","esophageal"],"sections":[],"technologies":["cancer-registries-surveillance"],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["iran-mohme"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"Cancer Epidemiology","year":2019,"doi":"10.1016/j.canep.2019.05.009","pmid":"31132560","authors":"Roshandel G, Ghanbari-Motlagh A, Partovipour E, et al.","paperType":"observational","findings":["112,131 new cancers were registered in 2014, 60,469 (53.9%) in men; 76,568 (68.28%) were confirmed under the microscope.","Age-standardised incidence was 177.44 per 100,000 in men and 141.18 in women.","In men the commonest were stomach (21.24), prostate (18.41) and colorectum (16.57); in women breast (34.53), colorectum (11.86) and stomach (9.44). Cervical cancer was 1.78 per 100,000 women.","Incidence of oesophageal, stomach and lung cancer was high in the north and north-west of the country."],"whatItMeans":"It is the first published national count from the population-based registry. It places Iran as a medium-risk country with a different order of common cancers from the world average.","caveats":["One province was not covered, and about a third of cancers were registered without microscopic confirmation.","Counts are registrations for one year; the paper gives no mortality or survival."],"participants":112131},"route":"/key-papers/paper-inpcr-2014-roshandel-cancer-epidemiol-2019/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"id":"colorectal","kind":"cancer","name":"Colorectal cancer","route":"/cancers/colorectal/"},{"id":"gastric","kind":"cancer","name":"Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer","route":"/cancers/gastric/"},{"id":"esophageal","kind":"cancer","name":"Oesophageal cancer","route":"/cancers/esophageal/"}],"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}],"institution":[{"id":"iran-mohme","kind":"institution","name":"Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran","route":"/institutions/iran-mohme/"}]}}