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Ostadrahimi A, Ahmadikhatir S, Amirazad H, EivaziZiaei J, AsghariJafarabadi M, Barzeghari A, Esfahani A, Farrin N. Effect of combination of Beta Glucan and Lactobacillus rhamnosus HerizI on white blood cell counts and serum levels of IL-4 and IL-12 in women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial. Clin Nutr ESPEN 2024; 61:281-287. [PMID: 38777445 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnesp.2024.03.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 02/03/2024] [Accepted: 03/29/2024] [Indexed: 05/25/2024]
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BACKGROUND Aim of this study was the isolation of native probiotic and determine the effect of combination of Beta Glucan and Lactobacillus rhamnosus Heriz I on White Blood Cell Counts and serum levels of IL-4and IL-12 in breast cancer women receiving Chemotherapy. METHODS This study was randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial in 30 women with breast cancer. Women in the intervention group received two 10-mg capsules of soluble 1-3,1-6, D-beta glucan and one capsule of Lactobacillus rhamnosus strain Heriz I (2 × 107 CFU) daily and placebo group received placebo during 21days, interval between two courses of chemotherapy. White blood cells, neuthrophil, lymphocyte and monocyte counts, serum levels of IL-4 and IL-12 were measured before and after the study. RESULTS We isolated Lactobacillus rhamnosus Heriz I from conventional yogurt of Heriz region and registered in NCBI GeneBank. After administration, in both groups white blood cells counts decreased. At the end of study, serum level of IL-4 was decreased in combination group compared to placebo (P = 0.005). Also, serum level of IL-12 in combination group increased non-significantly (P = 0.066). CONCLUSION The findings suggest that combination of Beta Glucan and Lactobacillus rhamnosus Heriz I may be useful as immunomodulary supplements in chemotherapy patients however further studies were needed.
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- Alireza Ostadrahimi
- Nutrition Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Nutrition Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Endocrine Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Hematology Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Hematology Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran
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- Nutrition Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Hashemi H, Mahaki B, Farnoosh R. Relative risk of childhood and adolescence cancer in Iran: spatiotemporal analysis from 1999 to 2016. BMC Res Notes 2024; 17:29. [PMID: 38238811 PMCID: PMC10797934 DOI: 10.1186/s13104-023-06629-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 11/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/22/2024] Open
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OBJECTIVE Cancer is the third leading cause of death in the world with increasing trends in Iran. The study of epidemiology, trend, and geospatial distribution of pediatric cancers provides important information for screening as well as early detection of cancer and policy making. We aimed to assess the spatio-temporal disparity of childhood and adolescence cancer risk among provinces of Iran. METHODS In this retrospective study, we estimated geospatial relative risk (RR) of childhood cancer in provinces of Iran using data from 29198 cases. We used BYM and its extended spatiotemporal model in Bayesian setting. This hierarchical model takes spatial and temporal effects into account in the incidence rate estimation simultaneously. RESULTS The relative risk of cancer was > 1 for 45% of the provinces, where 27% of provinces had significantly ascending trend. North Khorasan, Yazd and Qazvin provinces had the highest risk rates while Sistan-Baluchistan province showed the lowest risk of cancer. However, the differential trends was highest in Sistan-Baluchistan, Bushehr, Hormozgan, and Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad. Both the point estimate and the trend of risk was high in Tehran. CONCLUSION The geographic pattern and trend of cancer in children seems to be different from that in adults that urges further studies. This could lead to increased health system capacity and facilitate the access to effective detection, research, care and treatment of childhood cancer.
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- Hasti Hashemi
- Department of Statistics, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
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- School of Mathematics, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
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Soleimani M, Ayyoubzadeh SM, Jalilvand A, Ghazisaeedi M. Exploring the geospatial epidemiology of breast cancer in Iran: identifying significant risk factors and spatial patterns for evidence-based prevention strategies. BMC Cancer 2023; 23:1219. [PMID: 38082251 PMCID: PMC10712175 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-023-11555-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2023] [Accepted: 10/21/2023] [Indexed: 12/18/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast Cancer (BC) is a formidable global health challenge, and Iran is no exception, with BC accounting for a significant proportion of women's malignancies. To gain deeper insights into the epidemiological characteristics of BC in Iran, this study employs advanced geospatial techniques and feature selection methods to identify significant risk factors and spatial patterns associated with BC incidence. METHODS Using rigorous statistical methods, geospatial data from Iran, including cancer-related, sociodemographic, healthcare infrastructure, environmental, and air quality data at the provincial level, were meticulously analyzed. Age-standardized incidence rates (ASR) are calculated, and different regression models are used to identify significant variables associated with BC incidence. Spatial analysis techniques, including global and local Moran's index, geographically weighted regression, and Emerging hotspot analysis, were utilized to examine geospatial patterns, identify clustering and hotspots, and assess spatiotemporal distribution of BC incidence. RESULTS The findings reveal that BC predominantly affects women (98.03%), with higher incidence rates among those aged 50 to 79. Isfahan (ASR = 26.1) and Yazd (ASR = 25.7) exhibit the highest rates. Significant predictors of BC incidence, such as marriage, tertiary education attainment rate, physician-to-population ratio, and PM2.5 air pollution, are identified through regression models. CONCLUSION The study's results provide valuable information for the development of evidence-based prevention strategies to reduce the burden of BC in Iran. The findings underscore the importance of early detection, health education campaigns, and targeted interventions in high-risk clusters and adjacent regions. The geospatial insights generated by this study have implications for policy-makers, researchers, and public health practitioners, facilitating the formulation of effective BC prevention strategies tailored to the unique epidemiological patterns in Iran.
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- Mohsen Soleimani
- Department of Health Information Management and Medical Informatics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health Information Management and Medical Informatics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
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- Department of Health Information Management and Medical Informatics, School of Allied Medical Sciences, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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Danaei M, Haghdoost A, Safizadeh H, Malekpourafshar R, Moradi Baniasad R, Momeni M. Scientometric Analysis of Articles on Spatial Epidemiology of Cancer in Iran: A Systematic Review. IRANIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES 2023; 48:232-242. [PMID: 37791327 PMCID: PMC10542926 DOI: 10.30476/ijms.2022.93320.2463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2021] [Revised: 03/11/2022] [Accepted: 03/30/2022] [Indexed: 10/05/2023]
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Background Geographic information system (GIS) plays an important role in identifying areas with a high incidence of cancer. In the present study, based on a systematic review of studies by Iranian researchers, we performed a scientometric analysis of the published articles on the spatial epidemiology of cancer. In addition, the geographical distribution of certain types of cancer in Iran is presented. Methods A literature search was conducted using electronic databases such as PubMed and NLM Gateway, Institute for Scientific Information, Scopus, Google Scholar, and Cochrane Library for relevant articles published from 2000 to 2021. The search was performed using a combination of medical subject heading terms and keywords. A narrative synthesis was performed, and descriptive data were expressed as frequency and percentage. Results Of the 200 identified articles, 31 studies published in 15 different journals were included in this systematic review. Results showed a wide variation in high-risk breast cancer clusters. However, a similar incidence of gastrointestinal cancers has been reported, and high-risk clusters were identified in the north and the northwest of Iran. Skin cancer and acute lymphoblastic leukemia were more prevalent in the central provinces. Conclusion The current volume of studies on the spatial epidemiology of cancer in Iran, with a CiteScore quartile of Q1, is inadequate to guide health policymakers. The geographical distribution of many prevalent types of cancer has not been assessed by Iranian researchers. Furthermore, the classification of high- and low-risk geographical clusters of cancers was not completely homogeneous.
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- Mina Danaei
- Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Pathology and Stem Cell Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Department of Non-communicable Diseases, Vice Chancellor for Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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Pahlevani V, Mohammadzadeh M, Pahlevani N, Nayeb Zadeh V. Determination of the Risk Factors for Breast Cancer Survival using the Bayesian Method, Yazd, Iran. Adv Biomed Res 2022; 10:35. [PMID: 35071103 PMCID: PMC8744422 DOI: 10.4103/abr.abr_152_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2019] [Revised: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 08/28/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Background: There are numerous sophisticated studies which have investigated risk factors of breast cancer (BC). The purpose of this paper is to use benefits of Bayesian modeling to involve such prior information in determining factors affecting the survival of women with BC in Yazd city. Materials and Methods: The checklist included the characteristics of the patients and the factors studied. Then, from the records of patients referred to Radiotherapy Center of Shahid Ramezanzadeh, who had BC, from April 2005 to March 2012, the survival of 538 persons was recorded in the census. Data were analyzed by R software version 3.4.2, and 0.05 was considered the significance level. Results: The mean age of BC diagnosis was 48.03 ± 11016 years. The Bayesian Cox regression showed that surgery (hazard ratio [HR] =1.631 95% PI; 1.102–2.422), ki67 (HR = 3.260. 95% PI; 1.6308–6.372), stage (HR = 5.620, 95% PI; 4.079–7.731), lymph node (HR = 1.765, 95% PI; 1.127–2.790), and ER (HR = 2. 600 95% PI; 2.023–3.354) were significantly related to survival time. Conclusion: The parametric and cox models were compared with standard error, and Cox model was selected as an optimal model. Accordingly, stage, ki67, lymph node, ER, and surgery variables had a positive effect on death hazard.
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- Vida Pahlevani
- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Yazd, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Medical Sciences, Kashan University, Kashan, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Yazd, Iran
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Jabbari M, Barati M, Shabani M, Kazemian E, Khalili-Moghadam S, Javanmardi F, Hatami E, Zeinalian R, Davoodi SH, Rashidkhani B, Jafarzadeh S, Huseyn E, Mousavi Khaneghah A. The Association between Consumption of Dairy-Originated Digestion Resistant and Bioactive Peptides and Breast Cancer Risk: A Case-Control Study. Nutr Cancer 2022; 74:2426-2435. [PMID: 35048753 DOI: 10.1080/01635581.2021.2009884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Bioactive peptides (BPs) content of dairy products is suggested to be a significant ingredient for reducing breast cancer (BC) risk. There is no observational study regarding the correlation between BPs and the risk of chronic disease because BPs' content of food items has not been evaluated in any study. The goal of the current study was to assess the association of dairy-originated BPs with BC risk. One hundred thirty-four women with BC and 267 cancer-free controls were selected from referral hospitals in Tehran, Iran. The development of an in-silico model for estimation of the bioactive and digestion-resistant peptides content of dairy products was done in our previous research. The risk assessment for BPs and BC association was performed across the tertiles of the peptide's intake. Odds ratios (OR) were calculated by logistic regression. The negative association of all bioactive and digestion-resistant peptides except for peptides with high hydrophilicity and low bioactivity was seen in all models. In PR-negative subjects only the association of total dairy intake (OR: 0.61; 95% CI: 0.26-1.45; P for trend: 0.276), peptides with low bioactivity (OR: 0.40; 95% CI: 0.16-1.02; P for trend: 0.0.052), antidiabetic peptides (OR: 0.42; 95% CI: 0.17-1.05; P for trend: 0.0.062) and di-peptides (OR: 0.42; 95% CI: 0.17-1.05; P for trend: 0.0.062) were not significant in the final model. Also, no significant association between ER-negative subjects and total dairy intake (OR: 0.41; 95% CI: 0.16-1.07; P for trend: 0.0.068) was noted. Our findings deduced that milk-derived BPs negatively associate with the risk of ER/PR/HER2 negative BC among Iranian women.Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/01635581.2021.2009884.
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- Masoumeh Jabbari
- Student Research Committee, Department of Community Nutrition, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Nutrition, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Immunology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-communicable Diseases Research Center, Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Karaj, Iran
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- Department of Clinical Nutrition & Dietetics, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Food Science and Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Exercise Physiology, Sport Medicine Research Center, Sport Sciences Research Institute, Tehran, Iran
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- Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Cancer Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, Department of Community Nutrition, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Faculty of Nutrition and Food Technology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Food Technology Division, School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia
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- Research Laboratory of Intelligent Control and Decision-Making Systems in Industry and Economics, Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, Baku, Azerbaijan
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- Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Food Engineering, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil
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Ataeinia B, Saeedi Moghaddam S, Shabani M, Gohari K, Sheidaei A, Rezaei N, Naderimagham S, Ghasemi E, Rouhifard Khalilabad M, Roshani S, Farzi Y, Farzadfar F. National and Subnational Incidence, Mortality, and Years of Life Lost Due to Breast Cancer in Iran: Trends and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis Since 1990. Front Oncol 2021; 11:561376. [PMID: 33842306 PMCID: PMC8027299 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.561376] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2020] [Accepted: 01/15/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, causing considerable burden and mortality. Demographic and lifestyle transitions in low and low-middle income countries have given rise to its increased incidence. The successful management of cancer relies on evidence-based policies taking into account national epidemiologic settings. We aimed to report the national and subnational trends of breast cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost (YLL) and mortality to incidence ratio (MIR) since 1990. As part of the National and Subnational Burden of Diseases project, we estimated incidence, mortality and YLL of breast cancer by sex, age, province, and year using a two-stage spatio-temporal model, based on the primary dataset of national cancer and death registry. MIR was calculated as a quality of care indicator. Age-period-cohort analysis was used to distinguish the effects of these three collinear factors. A significant threefold increase in age-specific incidence at national and subnational levels along with a twofold extension of provincial disparity was observed. Although mortality has slightly decreased since 2000, a positive mortality annual percent change was detected in patients aged 25-34 years, leading to raised YLLs. A significant declining pattern of MIR and lower provincial MIR disparity was observed. We observed a secular increase of breast cancer incidence. Further evaluation of risk factors and developing national screening policies is recommended. A descending pattern of mortality, YLL and MIR at national and subnational levels reflects improved quality of care, even though mortality among younger age groups should be specifically addressed.
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- Bahar Ataeinia
- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Center for Precision Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,International Hematology/Oncology of Pediatrics Experts (IHOPE), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Rahimzadeh S, Burczynska B, Ahmadvand A, Sheidaei A, Khademioureh S, Pazhuheian F, Saeedi Moghaddam S, Bentham J, Farzadfar F, Di Cesare M. Geographical and socioeconomic inequalities in female breast cancer incidence and mortality in Iran: A Bayesian spatial analysis of registry data. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0248723. [PMID: 33730079 PMCID: PMC7968648 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0248723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2020] [Accepted: 03/03/2021] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
Abstract
BACKGROUND In Iran, trends in breast cancer incidence and mortality have generally been monitored at national level. The purpose of this study is to examine province-level disparities in age-standardised breast cancer incidence versus mortality from 2000 to 2010 and their association with socioeconomic status. METHODS In this study, data from Iran's national cancer and death registry systems, and covariates from census and household expenditure surveys were used. We estimated the age-standardised incidence and mortality rates in women aged more than 30 years for all 31 provinces in the consecutive time intervals 2000-2003, 2004-2007 and 2008-2010 using a Bayesian spatial model. RESULTS Mean age-standardised breast cancer incidence across provinces increased over time from 15.0 per 100,000 people (95% credible interval 12.0,18.3) in 2000-2003 to 39.6 (34.5,45.1) in 2008-2010. The mean breast cancer mortality rate declined from 10.9 (8.3,13.8) to 9.9 (7.5,12.5) deaths per 100,000 people in the same period. When grouped by wealth index quintiles, provinces in the highest quintile had higher levels of incidence and mortality. In the wealthiest quintile, reductions in mortality over time were larger than those observed among provinces in the poorest quintile. Relative breast cancer mortality decreased by 16.7% in the highest quintile compared to 10.8% in the lowest quintile. CONCLUSIONS Breast cancer incidence has increased over time, with lower incidence in the poorest provinces likely driven by underdiagnoses or late-stage diagnosis. Although the reported mortality rate is still higher in wealthier provinces, the larger decline over time in these provinces indicates a possible future reversal, with the most deprived provinces having higher mortality rates. Ongoing analysis of incidence and mortality at sub-national level is crucial in addressing inequalities in healthcare systems and public health both in Iran and elsewhere.
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- Shadi Rahimzadeh
- Department of Natural Science, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Natural Science, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
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- School of Medicine, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- ECO College of Insurance, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Natural Science, School of Science and Technology, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom
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Ataeinia B, Saeedi Moghaddam S, Shabani M, Gohari K, Sheidaei A, Rezaei N, Naderimagham S, Ghasemi E, Rouhifard Khalilabad M, Roshani S, Farzi Y, Farzadfar F. National and Subnational Incidence, Mortality, and Years of Life Lost Due to Breast Cancer in Iran: Trends and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis Since 1990. Front Oncol 2021. [PMID: 33842306 DOI: 10.3389/fonc.2021.561376/full] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023] Open
Abstract
Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women, causing considerable burden and mortality. Demographic and lifestyle transitions in low and low-middle income countries have given rise to its increased incidence. The successful management of cancer relies on evidence-based policies taking into account national epidemiologic settings. We aimed to report the national and subnational trends of breast cancer incidence, mortality, years of life lost (YLL) and mortality to incidence ratio (MIR) since 1990. As part of the National and Subnational Burden of Diseases project, we estimated incidence, mortality and YLL of breast cancer by sex, age, province, and year using a two-stage spatio-temporal model, based on the primary dataset of national cancer and death registry. MIR was calculated as a quality of care indicator. Age-period-cohort analysis was used to distinguish the effects of these three collinear factors. A significant threefold increase in age-specific incidence at national and subnational levels along with a twofold extension of provincial disparity was observed. Although mortality has slightly decreased since 2000, a positive mortality annual percent change was detected in patients aged 25-34 years, leading to raised YLLs. A significant declining pattern of MIR and lower provincial MIR disparity was observed. We observed a secular increase of breast cancer incidence. Further evaluation of risk factors and developing national screening policies is recommended. A descending pattern of mortality, YLL and MIR at national and subnational levels reflects improved quality of care, even though mortality among younger age groups should be specifically addressed.
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- Bahar Ataeinia
- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Center for Precision Imaging, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- International Hematology/Oncology of Pediatrics Experts (IHOPE), Universal Scientific Education and Research Network (USERN), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Non-Communicable Diseases Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Population Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Clinical Sciences Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Iraji Z, Asghari Jafarabadi M, Jafari-Koshki T, Dolatkhah R. A Conditional Probability Model to Predict the Mortality in Patients With Breast Cancer: A Bayesian Network Analysis. Am J Med Sci 2020; 360:575-580. [PMID: 32739037 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjms.2020.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2019] [Revised: 05/03/2020] [Accepted: 06/02/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compute the event rate of patients with breast cancer (BC) using Bayesian network (BN) structure. METHOD Data for 1,154 patients newly diagnosed with BC were recruited in this study during 2007 and 2016 in Iran. The database was linked to the regional death registration system and active follow-up was performed by referring to hospital information system or calling the patients. BN structure with inverse probability of censoring weighting (IPCW) approach was used to assess the relationship between event rate and underlying risk factors. RESULTS The median (25th, 75th percentiles) of patients' survival time was 46.8 (32.6, 69.3) months. There were 217 (18.8%) deaths from BC by the end of the study. The optimal BN structure (Akaike Information Criteria = -8743.66 and Bayesian Information Criteria = -8790.80) indicated that being male (conditional probability [CP] = 0.316), age >50 (CP = 0.215), higher grades (CP = 0.301) and lower survival times (CP = 0.566) had higher event rate. Also lobular carcinoma (CP = 0.157) and ductal carcinoma (CP = 0.178) type of morphology had lower event rate while other types (CP = 0.316) had higher. CONCLUSIONS The BN structure in which time was as a mediator of predictors-event relationship could be presented as the optimal tool to compute the event rate of BC. The findings could be used to identify the high risk patients and recommend for health policy making, prevention and planning for decrease the mortality in patients with BC.
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- Zeynab Iraji
- Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
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- Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Molecular Medicine Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Liver and Gastrointestinal Diseases Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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Iraji Z, Jafari Koshki T, Dolatkhah R, Asghari Jafarabadi M. Parametric survival model to identify the predictors of breast cancer mortality: An accelerated failure time approach. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN MEDICAL SCIENCES 2020; 25:38. [PMID: 32582344 PMCID: PMC7306232 DOI: 10.4103/jrms.jrms_743_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2019] [Revised: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 01/11/2020] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Background: Breast cancer (BC) was the fifth cause of mortality worldwide in 2015 and second cause of mortality in Iran in 2012. This study aimed to explore factors associated with survival of patients with BC using parametric survival models. Materials and Methods: Data of 1154 patients that diagnosed with BC recorded in the East Azerbaijan population-based cancer registry database between March 2007 and March 2016. The parametric survival model with an accelerated failure time (AFT) approach was used to assess the association between sex, age, grade, and morphology with time to death. Results: A total of 217 (18.8%) individuals experienced death due to BC by the end of the study. Among the fitted parametric survival models including exponential, Weibull, log logistic, and log-normal models, the log-normal model was the best model with the Akaike information criterion = 1441.47 and Bayesian information criterion = 1486.93 where patients with higher ages (time ratio [TR] =0.693; 95% confidence interval [CI] = [0.531, 0.904]) and higher grades (TR = 0.350; 95% CI = [0.201, 0.608]) had significantly lower survival while the lobular carcinoma type of morphology (TR = 1.975; 95% CI = [1.049, 3.720]) had significantly higher survival. Conclusion: Log-normal model showed to be an optimal tool to model the survival of patients with BC in the current study. Age, grade, and morphology showed significant association with time to death in patients with BC using AFT model. This finding could be recommended for planning and health policymaking in patients with BC. However, the impact of the models used for analysis on the significance and magnitude of estimated effects should be acknowledged.
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- Zeinab Iraji
- Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Hematology and Oncology Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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- Department of Statistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.,Road Traffic Injury Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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Wah W, Ahern S, Earnest A. A systematic review of Bayesian spatial-temporal models on cancer incidence and mortality. Int J Public Health 2020; 65:673-682. [PMID: 32449006 DOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01384-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 04/26/2020] [Accepted: 05/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES This study aimed to review the types and applications of fully Bayesian (FB) spatial-temporal models and covariates used to study cancer incidence and mortality. METHODS This systematic review searched articles published within Medline, Embase, Web-of-Science and Google Scholar between 2014 and 2018. RESULTS A total of 38 studies were included in our study. All studies applied Bayesian spatial-temporal models to explore spatial patterns over time, and over half assessed the association with risk factors. Studies used different modelling approaches and prior distributions for spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal interaction effects depending on the nature of data, outcomes and applications. The most common Bayesian spatial-temporal model was a generalized linear mixed model. These models adjusted for covariates at the patient, area or temporal level, and through standardization. CONCLUSIONS Few studies (4) modelled patient-level clinical characteristics (11%), and the applications of an FB approach in the forecasting of spatial-temporally aligned cancer data were limited. This review highlighted the need for Bayesian spatial-temporal models to incorporate patient-level prognostic characteristics through the multi-level framework and forecast future cancer incidence and outcomes for cancer prevention and control strategies.
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- Win Wah
- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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- Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
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Breast Cancer Survival and Incidence: 10 Years Cancer Registry Data in the Northwest, Iran. Int J Breast Cancer 2020; 2020:1963814. [PMID: 32411480 PMCID: PMC7211235 DOI: 10.1155/2020/1963814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2019] [Revised: 03/24/2020] [Accepted: 04/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Methods Data were obtained from East Azerbaijan cancer registry database for the 10-year period between 2007 and 2016. Survival analysis was performed to calculate the breast cancer-specific survival proportions and mortality rates. Joinpoint trend analysis was performed to estimate the incidence trend of the cancer. Results A total number of 4989 patients were recorded with primary diagnosis of breast cancer. Of them, we collected follow-up data for 1335 (1309 female and 26 male). The 10-year crude mortality rate was 3.34 (per 100,000). The one-, two-, three-, five-, and ten-year breast cancer-specific survival proportions were 0.92 (95% CI 0.91-0.93), 0.88 (95% CI 0.86-0.90), 0.84 (95% CI 0.83-0.86), 0.77 (95% CI 0.74-0.80), and 0.65 (95% CI 0.60-0.70), respectively. Over the study period, the age-standardized incidence rates increased from 21.68 to 36.99 (per 100,000) with an annual percentage change of 5.5 percent. Older individuals and males patients had significantly worse survival, and patients with high-grade tumors had significantly higher risk of mortality. Conclusion A relatively better survival for breast cancer in East Azerbaijan, Iran, was observed compared to the overall breast cancer-specific survival proportions and mortality rates in the country. However, it is still poor compared to the developed countries indicating that inappropriate treatment modalities might have played a role on this.
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Persad RA. Bayesian Space-Time Analysis of Brain Cancer Incidence in Southern Ontario, Canada: 2010-2013. Med Sci (Basel) 2019; 7:medsci7120110. [PMID: 31847406 PMCID: PMC6950658 DOI: 10.3390/medsci7120110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2019] [Revised: 12/09/2019] [Accepted: 12/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Canada has one of the highest incidence rates of brain cancer in the world. This study investigates the space–time variation of brain cancer risk across Southern Ontario, Canada. A Bayesian spatio-temporal regression model is used to estimate the relative risk of brain cancer in the 12 spatial health units of Southern Ontario over a four-year period (2010–2013). This work also explores the association between brain cancer and two potential risk factors: traumatic head injury (THI) and excess body fat (EBF). Across all areal units from 2010–2013, results show that the relative risk of brain cancer ranged from 0.83 (95% credible interval (CI) 0.74–0.91) to 1.26 (95% CI 1.13–1.41). Over the years, the eastern and western health units had persistently higher risk levels compared to those in the central areas. Results suggest that areas with elevated THI rates and EBF levels were also potentially associated with higher brain cancer relative risk. Findings revealed that the mean temporal trend for cancer risk progression in the region smoothly decreased over time. Overall, 50% of the health units displayed area-specific trends which were higher than the region’s average, thus indicating a slower decrease in cancer rates for these areas in comparison to the mean trend.
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Mansori K, Solaymani-Dodaran M, Mosavi-Jarrahi A, Motlagh AG, Salehi M, Delavari A, Hosseini A, Asadi-Lari M. Determination of effective factors on geographic distribution of the incidence of colorectal cancer in Tehran using geographically weighted Poisson regression model. Med J Islam Repub Iran 2019; 33:23. [PMID: 31380313 PMCID: PMC6662539 DOI: 10.34171/mjiri.33.23] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2018] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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Background: This study aimed to determine effective factors on geographic distribution of the Incidence of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) in Tehran, Iran using Geographically Weighted Poisson Regression Model. Methods: This ecological study was carried out at neighborhood level of Tehran in 2017-2018. Data for CRC incidence was extracted from the population-based cancer registry data of Iran. The socioeconomic variables, risk factors and health costs were extracted from the Urban HEART Study in Tehran. Geographically weighted Poisson regression model was used for determination of the association between these variables with CRC incidence. GWR 4, Stata 14 and ArcGIS 10.3 software systems were used for statistical analysis. Results: The total number of incident CRC cases were 2815 in Tehran from 2008 to 2011, of whom, 2491 cases were successfully geocoded to the neighborhood. The median IRR for local variables were : unemployed people over 15 year old (median IRR: 1.17), women aged 17 years or older with university education (median IRR: 1.17), women head of household (median IRR: 1.06), people without insurance coverage (median IRR: 1.10), households without daily consumption of milk (median IRR: 0.85), smoking households (median IRR: 1.07), household's health expenditure (median IRR: 1.39), disease diagnosis costs (median IRR: 1.03), medicines costs of households (median IRR: 1.05), cost of the hospital (median IRR: 1.09), cost of medical visits (median IRR: 1.27). Conclusion: The spatial variability was observed for most socioeconomic variables, risk factors and health costs that had effects on CRC incidence in Tehran. Spatial variability is necessary when interpreting the results and utterly helpful for implementation of prevention programs.
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- Kamyar Mansori
- Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Semnan, Iran.,Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Minimally Invasive Surgery Research Center, Rasoul Akram Hospital, Iran University of Medical Science, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health and Community Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Shahid Baheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Oncopathology Research Centre, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Azamjah N, Soltan-Zadeh Y, Zayeri F. Global Trend of Breast Cancer Mortality Rate: A 25-Year Study. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2019; 20:2015-2020. [PMID: 31350959 PMCID: PMC6745227 DOI: 10.31557/apjcp.2019.20.7.2015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 280] [Impact Index Per Article: 56.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2018] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Background: breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death for women worldwide. In the past two decades, published epidemiological reports in different parts of the world show significant increase in breast cancer mortality rate. The aim of this study was to determine the 25-year trend of breast cancer mortality rate in 7 super regions defined by the Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), i.e. Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia and Oceania, Latin America and Caribbean, Central Europe and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, High-income. Methods: Our study population consisted of 195 world countries in the IHME pre-defined seven super regions. The age-standardized mortality rates from 1990 to 2015 were extracted from the IHME site. The reference life table for calculating mortality rates was constructed based on the lowest estimated age-specific mortality rates from all locations with populations over 5 million in the 2015 iteration of GBD. To determine the trend of breast cancer mortality rate, a generalized linear mixed model was fitted separately for each IHME region and super region. Results: Statistical analysis showed a significant increase for breast cancer mortality rate in all super regions, except for High-income super region. For total world countries, the mean breast cancer mortality rate was 13.77 per 100,000 in 1990 and the overall slope of mortality rate was 0.7 per 100,000 from 1990 to 2015. The results showed that Latin America and Caribbean the highest increasing trend of breast cancer mortality rate during the years 1990 to 2015 (1.48 per 100,000). Conclusion: In general, our finding showed a significant increase in breast cancer mortality rate in the world during the past 25 years, which could be due to increase in incidence and prevalence of this cancer. Low this increasing trend is an alarm for health policy makers in all countries, especially in developing countries and low-income regions which experienced sharp slopes of breast cancer mortality rate.
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- Nasrindokht Azamjah
- Department of Administrative Science, Faculty of Shariaty, Tehran Branch, Technical and Vocational University (TVU), Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Information Studies, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, UK.
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- Proteomics Research Center and Department of Biostatistics, Faculty of paramedical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Nasrazadani M, Maracy MR, Dreassi E, Mahaki B. Mapping of Stomach, Colorectal, and Bladder Cancers in Iran, 2004-2009: Applying Bayesian Polytomous Logit Model. Int J Prev Med 2018; 9:104. [PMID: 30622687 PMCID: PMC6298128 DOI: 10.4103/ijpvm.ijpvm_30_17] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2017] [Accepted: 01/09/2018] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND According to the last report of Iran cancer registry, stomach, colorectal, and bladder cancers are the most prevalent cancers. The present study focused on separating the latent risk surface into shared and disease-specific components. METHODS In this study, data consisting of stomach, colorectal, and bladder cancers in 30 provinces of Iran during 2004-2009 are considered. These data are analyzed by polytomous logit model. The incidence of stomach cancer acts as the reference category (the surrogate for smoking). Then, the log odds are decomposed into shared and specific structured spatial and unstructured spatial components. These latent components help to detect spatial patterns of shared and disease-specific risk factors. RESULTS Central, Southern, Eastern, and Southwestern provinces are supposed as high-risk regions for shared risk factor for colorectal and bladder cancers. This shared risk factor is slightly associated more with bladder than with colorectal cancer. Northern, northwestern, and central regions and also three borderline provinces in southwestern are high-risk regions for colorectal cancer. Central, eastern, southern, and western strip of the country except Ilam are found as the high-risk regions of bladder cancer. CONCLUSIONS After considering known shared risk factor of the three cancers, it turns out that colorectal and bladder cancers have unknown shared risk factor. The significant difference in their lifestyle and eating habits could be an assumption of the risk factor.
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- Marzieh Nasrazadani
- Student Research Center, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Statistics G. Parenti, University of Florence, Florence, Italy
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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Rajbongshi N, Nath DC, Mahanta LB. Estimating Risk of Breast Cancer Occurrences at Different Ages: Application of Survival Techniques. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2018; 19:3033-3038. [PMID: 30484988 PMCID: PMC6318421 DOI: 10.31557/apjcp.2018.19.11.3033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/08/2017] [Accepted: 10/07/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Background: Awareness is the primary means to control breast cancer occurrence. The purpose of the present work is to study the risk of breast cancer occurrence in different age group, for the study area, Assam, India, by means of survival analysis techniques. Methods: Survival and hazard functions are key concepts in survival analysis for describing the distribution of event times. In the present research a new individialized model has been proposed for cumulative hazard function, taking gamma probability distribution as probability distribution of breast cancer occurrences. Kaplan Meier Survival method has been applied to find out the probability of diseases occurrence in the early menarche and late menarche group. The data used for implementation were collected from the Record Department of a prime local cancer institute, for the period 2010-2012. The information for the risk factor age at menarche were collected from the patients registered during August 2011 to February 2012. Results: The study reveals that in the study area, cumulative hazard of the women belonging to 35 to 50 years is higher than the early and late aged women. The cumulative hazard plot with shape parameter 0.5, 1 and 10 shows that cumulative risk for early aged women are greater than the late age women but when this values is increased from 10, the opposite trend is observed. Further, the median age of disease occurrence among early menarche group is 52 years and for late menarche it is 54 years. Conclusion: The model developed could successfully point out the age group for women lying at higher risk of breast cancer occurrence. Additionally the important risk factor, age at menarche, was effectively applied to supplement to this calculation. It is hoped that practical use of this method would enhance not only awareness but also early detection of the said disease.
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- N Rajbongshi
- Central Computational and Numerical Sciences Division (CCNS), Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) (An Autonomous Institute under Department of Science and Technology), Guwahati, India.
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Heidari Z, Jalali S, Sedaghat F, Ehteshami M, Rashidkhani B. Dietary patterns and breast cancer risk among Iranian women: A case-control study. Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol 2018; 230:73-78. [PMID: 30243229 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejogrb.2018.09.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2018] [Revised: 07/29/2018] [Accepted: 09/10/2018] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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AIM Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide. Most previous studies focused on individual nutrients or foods rather than overall dietary patterns. We aimed to assess the association between major dietary patterns and breast cancer risk. METHOD In a hospital-based case-control study, 134 women diagnosed as breast cancer and 267 controls were recruited from referral hospitals in Tehran, Iran. Dietary intakes were evaluated by using a validated 168-item food frequency questionnaire. Dietary pattern were identified by factor analysis. Odds ratios (OR) were estimated using logistic regression. RESULTS Two dietary patterns were extracted: healthy and unhealthy. The "Healthy" dietary pattern was loaded for high consumptions of fruits, vegetables, seeds, legume, fish and sea foods, whole grains, liquid oils, olive oils and olive and lack of salt intake. "Unhealthy" dietary pattern was characterized by high factor loadings for sweets, soft drinks, mayonnaise, solid oils, processed meat, fried and boiled potato and salt intake. In multivariate logistic regression analyses, the healthy dietary pattern was not associated with breast cancer risk (OR: 0.83; 95%CI: 0.36, 1.89; P-trend = 0.50), while women in the highest quartile of the unhealthy dietary pattern had a significantly increased breast cancer risk (OR: 2.21; 95%CI: 1.04, 4.690; P-trend = 0.009). When stratified by menopausal status, unhealthy dietary pattern showed inverse association with breast cancer risk only among post-menopausal women (OR: 3.56; 95%CI: 1.16, 10.95; P-trend = 0.008). CONCLUSIONS Our findings showed that an unhealthy dietary pattern might be associated with higher risk of breast among Iranian women.
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- Zeinab Heidari
- Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
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- Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Community Nutrition, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Mahaki B, Mehrabi Y, Kavousi A, Schmid VJ. Joint Spatio-Temporal Shared Component Model with an Application in Iran Cancer Data. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2018; 19:1553-1560. [PMID: 29936779 PMCID: PMC6103587 DOI: 10.22034/apjcp.2018.19.6.1553] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2017] [Accepted: 05/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Background: Among the proposals for joint disease mapping, the shared component model has become more popular. Another advance to strengthen inference of disease data is the extension of purely spatial models to include time aspect. We aim to combine the idea of multivariate shared components with spatio-temporal modelling in a joint disease mapping model and apply it for incidence rates of seven prevalent cancers in Iran which together account for approximately 50% of all cancers. Methods: In the proposed model, each component is shared by different subsets of diseases, spatial and temporal trends are considered for each component, and the relative weight of these trends for each component for each relevant disease can be estimated. Results: For esophagus and stomach cancers the Northern provinces was the area of high risk. For colorectal cancer Gilan, Semnan, Fars, Isfahan, Yazd and East-Azerbaijan were the highest risk provinces. For bladder and lung cancer, the northwest were the highest risk area. For prostate and breast cancers, Isfahan, Yazd, Fars, Tehran, Semnan, Mazandaran and Khorasane-Razavi were the highest risk part. The smoking component, shared by esophagus, stomach, bladder and lung, had more effect in Gilan, Mazandaran, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Kohgilouyeh and Boyerahmad, Ardebil and Tehran provinces, in turn. For overweight and obesity component, shared by esophagus, colorectal, prostate and breast cancers the largest effect was found for Tehran, Khorasane-Razavi, Semnan, Yazd, Isfahan, Fars, Mazandaran and Gilan, in turn. For low physical activity component, shared by colorectal and breast cancers North-Khorasan, Ardebil, Golestan, Ilam, Khorasane-Razavi and South-Khorasan had the largest effects, in turn. The smoking component is significantly more important for stomach than for esophagus, bladder and lung. The overweight and obesity had significantly more effect for colorectal than of esophagus cancer. Conclusions: The presented model is a valuable model to model geographical and temporal variation among diseases and has some interesting potential features and benefits over other joint models.
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- Behzad Mahaki
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran.
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Moradzadeh R, Golmohammadi P, Kazemi-Galougahi MH, Sartipi M, Sharfi H, Ahmadpour M. Distribution of breast cancer risk factors in two groups of healthy people referral to cancer registry and Shahid Mottahari center. Data Brief 2018; 19:988-991. [PMID: 29900394 PMCID: PMC5997904 DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.05.045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2018] [Accepted: 05/08/2018] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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The aim of this study is evaluation of breast cancer risk factors distribution in two groups of healthy people referral to cancer registry and Shahid Mottahari center in Iran. This study is cross-sectional study which is part of the study to estimate Gene-Environment Interaction in women with breast cancer with case-control studies in Shiraz. In this study, two control groups have been used. The sample size of 300 was specified for each group. Selection sources of groups include Cancer Registry Center and referred people to surgical and internal ward of Shahid Mottahari Clinic. Information collect tools have included Form No. 1 in Cancer Registry Center which includes information of age, use of oral contraceptives history, breastfeeding history, number of live births, age at menarche, age at first childbirth, etc. Considering the results obtained, it was showed that the highest frequency (144) in the group of Cancer Registry Center belongs to high school education, but the highest frequency of Shahid Mottahari Clinic is related to primary education (176).There is statistically significant difference between the two groups in terms of education, history of breast cancer in first-degree relatives and age at first birth, (P<0.05). Due to the easy availability of data on non-cancer patients referred to the cancer registry center, researchers may be encouraged to use them as a control group, but we must bear in mind that, this Group may be different in terms of some variables, and this difference leads to bias in the estimation of considered exposure effects.
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- Rahmatollah Moradzadeh
- Department of Epidemiology, School of Health, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Students Research Committee, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran
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- Department of Public Health, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran
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Bouya S, Koochakzai M, Rafiemanesh H, Balouchi A, Taheri S, Badakhsh M, Didehvar M. Health-related quality of life of Iranian breast cancer patients: a meta-analysis and systematic review. Breast Cancer Res Treat 2018. [PMID: 29541975 DOI: 10.1007/s10549-018-4750-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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PURPOSE Quality of life is the most important psychological factor affecting breast cancer patients. This study aimed to examine the health related quality of life of breast cancer patients in Iran. METHODS International (PubMed, Web of science, Scopus and Google scholar) and national (SID, Magiran) databases were searched for related studies to September 2017. The quality of the articles was evaluated using the Hoy tool. RESULTS Out of 232 initial studies, 18 studies performed on 2263 people were included in the final stage of the study. Based on the EORTC-QLQ-C30 and random effect method, the pooled mean score of quality of life in 1073 people was 57.88 (95% CI 48.26-67.41, I2 = 97.90%) and the pooled mean score of quality of life based on WHOQOL-BREF in 357 people was 66.79 (95% CI 45.96-87.62, I2 = 99.50%). CONCLUSION According to the results of the study, a moderate level of quality of life in women with breast cancer was indicated. Therefore, the use of multidimensional approaches can improve their quality of life.
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- Salehoddin Bouya
- Clinical Immunology Research Center, Ali-ebne Abitaleb Hospital, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Zabol University of Medical Science, Zabol, Iran
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- Student Research Committee, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran.,Student Research Committee, Nursing and Midwifery School, University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Zabol University of Medical Science, Zabol, Iran.
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- Midwifery Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Iranshahr, Iran
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer has become the most common cancer among Yazdi women in Iran. Thus, it is necessary to encourage these women to participate in breast health-seeking behaviors. In this regard, husbands can play an effective role. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore women's perceptions about the effect of their husband's role on breast health-seeking protection motivation. METHODS This study used a directed qualitative content analysis approach based on the Protection Motivation Theory. Participants were selected using purposive sampling; in-depth semistructured interviews with 14 Yazdi women were completed. RESULTS One major category named "motivator role of husband" emerged from the analysis. The following subcategories underlying this category were "indifference and a lack of support as long as the women can continue with expected duties," "what women want for support," "facilitating and restrictive factors of husband's supportive role," "public health education needed," and "husband's agreement with preventive actions." CONCLUSIONS Voluntary participation in breast health-seeking behaviors is a culturally sensitive topic. The qualitative methodology allowed this sensitive topic and its different aspects to be explored. The findings indicated that the major source of support for women was their husband's behavior toward breast health-seeking actions. Family cohesion and love among couples were identified as strong determinant factors pertaining to husband's supportive behaviors. IMPLICATIONS FOR PRACTICE The study findings provided deeper understanding about the effective factors related to a husband's role in motivating a wife to practice breast cancer prevention. These new findings are relevant for health educators and practitioners to develop culturally based interventions.
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Disparities in Female Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis in New Jersey: A Spatial-Temporal Analysis. JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND PRACTICE 2017; 23:477-486. [PMID: 28430705 PMCID: PMC5548504 DOI: 10.1097/phh.0000000000000524] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Despite improvements in early detection of breast cancer, disparities persist in stage at diagnosis, which is an important prognostic factor.
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Ayubi E, Mansournia MA, Motlagh AG, Mosavi-Jarrahi A, Hosseini A, Yazdani K. Exploring neighborhood inequality in female breast cancer incidence in Tehran using Bayesian spatial models and a spatial scan statistic. Epidemiol Health 2017; 39:e2017021. [PMID: 28774168 PMCID: PMC5543299 DOI: 10.4178/epih.e2017021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Accepted: 05/17/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore the spatial pattern of female breast cancer (BC) incidence at the neighborhood level in Tehran, Iran. METHODS The present study included all registered incident cases of female BC from March 2008 to March 2011. The raw standardized incidence ratio (SIR) of BC for each neighborhood was estimated by comparing observed cases relative to expected cases. The estimated raw SIRs were smoothed by a Besag, York, and Mollie spatial model and the spatial empirical Bayesian method. The purely spatial scan statistic was used to identify spatial clusters. RESULTS There were 4,175 incident BC cases in the study area from 2008 to 2011, of which 3,080 were successfully geocoded to the neighborhood level. Higher than expected rates of BC were found in neighborhoods located in northern and central Tehran, whereas lower rates appeared in southern areas. The most likely cluster of higher than expected BC incidence involved neighborhoods in districts 3 and 6, with an observed-to-expected ratio of 3.92 (p<0.001), whereas the most likely cluster of lower than expected rates involved neighborhoods in districts 17, 18, and 19, with an observed-to-expected ratio of 0.05 (p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS Neighborhood-level inequality in the incidence of BC exists in Tehran. These findings can serve as a basis for resource allocation and preventive strategies in at-risk areas.
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- Erfan Ayubi
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Radiotherapy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Health and Community Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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Zahmatkesh B, Keramat A, Alavi N, Khosravi A, Kousha A, Motlagh AG, Darman M, Partovipour E, Chaman R. Breast Cancer Trend in Iran from 2000 to 2009 and Prediction till 2020 using a Trend Analysis Method. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2017; 17:1493-8. [PMID: 27039796 DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2016.17.3.1493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide with a rising incidence rate in most countries. Considering the increase in life expectancy and change in lifestyle of Iranian women, this study investigated the age-adjusted trend of breast cancer incidence during 2000-2009 and predicted its incidence to 2020. MATERIALS AND METHODS The 1997 and 2006 census results were used for the projection of female population by age through the cohort-component method over the studied years. Data from the Iranian cancer registration system were used to calculate the annual incidence rate of breast cancer. The age-adjusted incidence rate was then calculated using the WHO standard population distribution. The five-year-age-specific incidence rates were also obtained for each year and future incidence was determined using the trend analysis method. Annual percentage change (APC) was calculated through the joinpoint regression method. RESULTS The bias adjusted incidence rate of breast cancer increased from 16.7 per 100,000 women in 2000 to 33.6 per 100,000 women in 2009. The incidence of breast cancer had a growing trend in almost all age groups above 30 years over the studied years. In this period, the age groups of 45-65 years had the highest incidence. Investigation into the joinpoint curve showed that the curve had a steep slope with an APC of 23.4% before the first joinpoint, but became milder after this. From 2005 to 2009, the APC was calculated as 2.7%, through which the incidence of breast cancer in 2020 was predicted as 63.0 per 100,000 women. CONCLUSIONS The age-adjusted incidence rate of breast cancer continues to increas in Iranian women. It is predicted that this trend will continue until 2020. Therefore, it seems necessary to prioritize the prevention, control and care for breast cancer in Iran.
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- Bibihajar Zahmatkesh
- Pathology Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran E-mail :
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Khoshkar AH, Koshki TJ, Mahaki B. Comparison of Bayesian Spatial Ecological Regression Models for Investigating the Incidence of Breast Cancer in Iran, 2005- 2008. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2016; 16:5669-73. [PMID: 26320433 DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2015.16.14.5669] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most prevalent kind of cancer among women in Iran. Regarding the importance of cancer prevention and considerable variation of breast cancer incidence in different parts of the country, it is necessary to recognize regions with high incidence of breast cancer and evaluate the role of potential risk factors by use of advanced statistical models. The present study focussed on incidence of breast cancer in Iran at the province level and also explored the impact of some prominent covariates using Bayesian models. MATERIALS AND METHODS All patients diagnosed with breast cancer in Iran from 2005 to 2008 were included in the study. Smoking, fruit and vegetable intake, physical activity, obesity and the Human Development Index (HDI), measured at the province level, were considered as potential modulating factors. Gamma-Poisson, log normal and BYM models were used to estimate the relative risk of breast cancer in this ecological investigation with and without adjustment for the covariates. RESULTS The unadjusted BYM model had the best fit among applied models. Without adjustment, Isfahan, Yazd, and Tehran had the highest incidences and Sistan- Baluchestan and Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari had the lowest. With the adjusted model, Khorasan-Razavi, Lorestan and Hamedan had the highest and Ardebil and Kohgiluyeh-Boyerahmad the lowest incidences. A significantly direct association was found between breast cancer incidence and HDI. CONCLUSIONS BYM model has better fit, because it contains parameters that allow including effects from neighbors. Since HDI is a significant variable, it is also recommended that HDI should be considered in future investigations. This study showed that Yazd, Isfahan and Tehran provinces feature the highest crude incidences of breast cancer.
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- Ahmad Haddad Khoshkar
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran E-mail :
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Jalali C, Ghaderi B, Amini S, Abdi M, Roshani D. Association of XRCC1 Trp194 allele with risk of breast cancer, and Ki67 protein status in breast tumor tissues. Saudi Med J 2016; 37:624-30. [PMID: 27279507 PMCID: PMC4931642 DOI: 10.15537/smj.2016.6.13540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2015] [Accepted: 04/20/2016] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVES To evaluate the role of this polymorphism as a risk factor for breast cancer in Kurdish patients and to investigate the possible association between Arg194Trp x-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1) gene polymorphisms with clinical and histopathological outcomes of patients with breast cancer. METHODS A total of 100 breast cancer patients and 200 cancer-free controls in Kurdish population of Kurdistan state admitted to Tohid Hospital, Sanandaj, Kurdistan, Iran between January 2012 and May 2015 were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. Tissue expression of estrogen receptor (ER), progesteron receptor (PR), human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (Her2/neu), and Ki67 were evaluated by immunohistochemistry (IHC). The Arg194Trp genotypes were determined by polymerase chain reaction- restriction fragment length polymorphism method. RESULTS Our data showed that the risk for breast cancer increased significantly among the Trp variant of XRCC1. Statistically significant association was found between codon 194 polymorphisms and tissue expression of Ki67. CONCLUSION The Trp allele of codon 194 XRCC1 is a potential risk factor for breast cancer in Kurdish ethnicity. Furthermore, effect of this polymorphism on clinical and histological features of breast cancer was significant.
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- Chiya Jalali
- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Kurdistan University of Medical Sciences, Sanandaj, Iran. E-mail.
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Zeinalian M, Eshaghi M, Sharbafchi MR, Naji H, Marandi SMM, Asgary S. A Comparative Study on Cancer Prevention Principles Between Iranian Traditional Medicine and Classic Medicine. Int J Prev Med 2016; 7:61. [PMID: 27141280 PMCID: PMC4837795 DOI: 10.4103/2008-7802.179508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2015] [Accepted: 08/16/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Cancer is one of the three main causes of mortality in most human communities whose prevalence is being increased. A significant part of health budget in all countries has been allocated to treat the cancer, which is incurable in many cases. It has led the global health attitude to cancer prevention. Many cancer-related risk factors have been identified for which preventive recommendations have been offered by international organizations such as World Health Organization. Some of the most important of these risk factors are smoking and alcohol consumption, hypercaloric and low-fiber diet, obesity, inactivity, environmental and industrial pollution, some viral infections, and hereditary factors. Exact reviewing of Iranian-Islamic traditional medicine (IITM) resources determines that preventive rules, which named as six essential rules (Sitteh-e-Zarurieah) are abundantly found, including all identified cancer-related risk factors. These preventive rules are: Air (Hava), body movement and repose, sleep and wakefulness, food and drink, evacuation and retention, and mental movement and repose (A'raz-e-Nafsani). The associated risk factors in classic medicine are: Smoking and air pollution, sedentary life, sleep disturbance, improper nutrition and alcohol, chronic constipation, and psychoneurotic stresses. Moreover, these rules are comprehensive enough to include many of the other harmful health-related factors whose roles have been confirmed in the occurrence of different diseases, except cancer. Apparently, cancer prevention in Iran would be more successful if the sextet necessary rules of IITM are promoted among the populations and health policy makers.
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- Mehrdad Zeinalian
- Entekhab Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center, ALA Charity Foundation, Isfahan, Iran
- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Entekhab Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center, ALA Charity Foundation, Isfahan, Iran
- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Entekhab Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center, ALA Charity Foundation, Isfahan, Iran
- Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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- Entekhab Cancer Prevention and Control Research Center, ALA Charity Foundation, Isfahan, Iran
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- Isfahan Cardiovascular Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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Khazaee-pool M, Majlessi F, Foroushani AR, Montazeri A, Nedjat S, Shojaeizadeh D, Tol A, Salimzadeh H. Perception of breast cancer screening among Iranian women without experience of mammography: a qualitative study. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2016; 15:3965-71. [PMID: 24935582 DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.9.3965] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND In Iran, there are high rates of breast cancer. It is among the five most common cancers, the first among cancers diagnosed, and is the leading cause of cancer deaths among Iranian women. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore perception of breast cancer screening among Iranian women who have never had a mammograph. MATERIALS AND METHODS The current study was part of a qualitative research conducted by means of content analysis method and purposive sampling of 16 women over the age of 30 years who had not undergone mammography using individual semi-structured interviews. Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim. The data were under continuous consideration and comparative analysis in order to achieve data saturation. RESULTS After codification of data, three concept categories were achieved including: i) low awareness, ii) worries, and iii) lack of motivation. CONCLUSIONS Although there is a tendency among Iranian women to participate in breast cancer screening, there is a powerful cultural belief that breasts are sexual organs that should not be discussed publicly. Due to the incidence of breast cancer in Iranian women, it is critical that breast awareness education be performed by health care experts to explore the concepts of breast cancer and breast cancer screening.
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- Maryam Khazaee-pool
- Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran E-mail :
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Sharifian A, Pourhoseingholi MA, Emadedin M, Nejad MR, Ashtari S, Hajizadeh N, Firouzei SA, Hosseini SJ. Burden of Breast Cancer in Iranian Women is Increasing. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2015; 16:5049-52. [DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2015.16.12.5049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Ostadrahimi A, Ziaei JE, Esfahani A, Jafarabadi MA, Movassaghpourakbari A, Farrin N. Effect of beta glucan on white blood cell counts and serum levels of IL-4 and IL-12 in women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy: a randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2015; 15:5733-9. [PMID: 25081694 DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.14.5733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common female malignancy in the world. Beta glucan can be a hematopoietic and an immune modulator agent in cancer patients. The aim of this trial was to determine the effect of beta glucan on white blood cell counts and serum levels of IL-4 and IL-12 in women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS This randomized double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial was conducted on 30 women with breast carcinoma aged 28-65 years. The eligible participants were randomly assigned to intervention (n=15) or placebo (n=15) groups using a block randomization procedure with matching based on age, course of chemotherapy and menopause status. Patients in the intervention group received two 10-mg capsules of soluble 1-3, 1-6, D-beta glucan daily and the control group receiving placebo during 21 days, the interval between two courses of chemotherapy. White blood cells, neuthrophil, lymphocyte and monocyte counts as well as serum levels of IL-4 and IL-12 were measured at baseline and at the end of the study as primary outcomes of the study. RESULTS In both groups white blood cell counts decreased after 21 days of the intervention, however in the beta glucan group, WBC was less decreased non significantly than the placebo group. At the end of the study, the change in the serum level of IL-4 in the beta glucan group in comparison with the placebo group was statistically significant (p=0.001). The serum level of IL-12 in the beta glucan group statistically increased (p=0.03) and comparison between two groups at the end of the study was significant after adjusting for baseline values and covariates (p=0.007). CONCLUSIONS The findings suggest that beta glucan can be useful as a complementary or adjuvant therapy and immunomodulary agent in breast cancer patients in combination with cancer therapies, but further studies are needed for confirmation.
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- Alireza Ostadrahimi
- Nutrition Research Center. Faculty of Nutrition, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran E-mail : Asi
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Khan HMR, Saxena A, Gabbidon K, Rana S, Ahmed NU. Model-based survival estimates of female breast cancer data. Asian Pac J Cancer Prev 2014; 15:2893-900. [PMID: 24761921 DOI: 10.7314/apjcp.2014.15.6.2893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Statistical methods are very important to precisely measure breast cancer patient survival times for healthcare management. Previous studies considered basic statistics to measure survival times without incorporating statistical modeling strategies. The objective of this study was to develop a data-based statistical probability model from the female breast cancer patients' survival times by using the Bayesian approach to predict future inferences of survival times. MATERIALS AND METHODS A random sample of 500 female patients was selected from the Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results cancer registry database. For goodness of fit, the standard model building criteria were used. The Bayesian approach is used to obtain the predictive survival times from the data-based Exponentiated Exponential Model. Markov Chain Monte Carlo method was used to obtain the summary results for predictive inference. RESULTS The highest number of female breast cancer patients was found in California and the lowest in New Mexico. The majority of them were married. The mean (SD) age at diagnosis (in years) was 60.92 (14.92). The mean (SD) survival time (in months) for female patients was 90.33 (83.10). The Exponentiated Exponential Model found better fits for the female survival times compared to the Exponentiated Weibull Model. The Bayesian method is used to obtain predictive inference for future survival times. CONCLUSIONS The findings with the proposed modeling strategy will assist healthcare researchers and providers to precisely predict future survival estimates as the recent growing challenges of analyzing healthcare data have created new demand for model-based survival estimates. The application of Bayesian will produce precise estimates of future survival times.
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- Hafiz Mohammad Rafiqullah Khan
- Department of Biostatistics, Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work, Florida International University, Miami, USA E-mail :
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