Trends of National and Subnational Incidence of Childhood Cancer Groups in Iran: 1990-2016.

ABSTRACT: Background: Childhood cancer is a double-edged sword, considering its high rate of response to treatment despite a high vulnerability to develop future malignancies in survivors. Thus, multidisciplinary preventive, curative, and supportive strategies must be incorporated in childhood cancer care that require understanding the distribution and trend of cancer in the target population. In this article, we aimed to report the national and subnational trends of childhood cancer incidence in Iran from 1990 to 2016, and mortality/incidence ratio (MIR), which, to our knowledge, have not been reported in previous literature. Method: Data on the incidence and mortality rates were collected from the National and Subnational Burden of Diseases project. We employed a two-stage spatiotemporal model to

SUBMITTER: Shabani M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6970968 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature