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Iran's national cancer registry recorded 124,833 new cancers in 2016; prostate cancer was commonest in men and breast cancer in women, with rates highest in the north-west and centre of the country.
An analysis of the Iranian National Population-based Cancer Registry's 2016 data, which the authors describe as managed by all 60 medical universities under the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, covering 31 provinces and following the protocols of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and the International Association of Cancer Registries. Registration drew on pathology reports and clinical and paraclinical hospital data, by place of residence; about 30,679 patients without a national identity number were matched on name, father's name, date of birth and sex. Rates are standardised to the Segi-Doll world population.
The most recent full national incidence report from the registry that OnCo could read in full. It shows prostate cancer overtaking stomach cancer in men since 2014 and a large number of non-melanoma skin cancers, which change totals depending on whether they are counted.
Shares Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, Cancer registries and population surveillance, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Breast cancer (all types).
Shares Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Lung cancer (all types).
Shares Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, Colorectal cancer.
Shares Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran, Cancer registries and population surveillance, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Colorectal cancer.
Shares Cancer registries and population surveillance, Breast cancer (all types).
Shares Cancer registries and population surveillance, Prostate cancer, Colorectal cancer.
Shares Cancer registries and population surveillance, Gastric & gastro-oesophageal junction cancer, Colorectal cancer.
Shares Cancer registries and population surveillance, Breast cancer (all types).
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