Population-attributable causes of cancer in Korea: obesity and physical inactivity. by Sohee Park, Yeonju Kim, Hai-Rim Shin, Boram Lee, Aesun Shin, Kyu-Won Jung, Sun Ha Jee, Dong Hyun Kim, Young Ho Yun, Sue Kyung Park, Mathieu Boniol, Paolo Boffetta

“…The overall PAF was then estimated using 2009 national cancer incidence data from the Korea Central Cancer Registry. Excess body weight was responsible for 1,444 (1.5%) and 2,004 (2.2%) cancer cases among men and women, respectively, in 2009 in Korea. …”
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A poisson regression approach for modelling spatial autocorrelation between geographically referenced observations by Jolley Damien, Wolfe Rory, Mohebbi Mohammadreza

“…</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>We used age standardised incidence ratios (SIRs) of esophageal cancer (EC) from the Babol cancer registry from 2001 to 2005, and extracted socioeconomic indices from the Statistical Centre of Iran. …”
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Partnering to Reduce Colon Cancer Health Disparities Among the American Indian Population in Michigan by Noel Pingatore, Angela Lewis Precht, Georgetta Alverson, Glenn Copeland, Betty Jahnke, Andrea Dwyer, Robey B. Champine

“…Disproportionately high rates of colon cancer were identified among three tribal communities in Michigan by linking each tribe’s enrollment roster to the state cancer registry. In response, in 2015 the Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan received funding from the Office of Minority Health within the U.S. …”
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Population-Attributable Fractions of Personal Comorbidities for Liver, Gallbladder, and Bile Duct Cancers by Kari Hemminki, Kristina Sundquist, Jan Sundquist, Asta Försti, Vaclav Liska, Akseli Hemminki, Xinjun Li

“…Methods: Patients were identified from the Swedish Inpatient Register from 1987 to 2018 and cancers from the Swedish Cancer Registry from 1997 through 2018. PAFs were calculated for each comorbidity-associated cancer using a cohort study design. …”
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Can National Tests from the Last Year of Compulsory School Be Used to Obtain More Detailed Information about Academic Performance in Children Treated for Brain Tumours? A Nationwid... by Malin Lönnerblad, Eva Berglund, Ingrid van’t Hooft, Klas Blomgren

“…Data were obtained from The Swedish Childhood Cancer Registry and Statistics Sweden. The results from 475 children diagnosed with a brain tumour before their 15th birthday and 2197 matched controls showed that children treated for brain tumours evinced more difficulties with national tests than controls in almost all subtests, especially in the subject English, and that they may perform better on oral than written tasks. …”
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The impacts of the scope of benefits expansion on hospice care among adult decedents: a nationwide longitudinal observational study by Tsung-Hsien Yu, Frank Leigh Lu, Chung-Jen Wei, Wei-Wen Wu

“…Methods We used the 2001–2017 Taiwan NHI claims data, Death Registry, and Cancer Registry in this study, and we included people who died between 2002 and 2017. …”
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Epidemiology and Mortality of Ovarian Cancer in Taiwan: A Population-Based Study by Yun-Hui Teng, Fu-Chao Liu, Shang-Yu Huang, Chang-Fu Kuo, Huang-Ping Yu

“…The histological subtypes of ovarian cancer were retrieved from the Taiwan Cancer Registry database, while the survival rates were extracted from the National Death Registry database. …”
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Use of Multiple Correspondence Analysis and K-means to Explore Associations Between Risk Factors and Likelihood of Colorectal Cancer: Cross-sectional Study by Dídac Florensa, Jordi Mateo-Fornés, Francesc Solsona, Teresa Pedrol Aige, Miquel Mesas Julió, Ramon Piñol, Pere Godoy

“…MethodsThis cross-sectional study was made up of 1083 colorectal cancer episodes between 2012 and 2015, extracted from the population-based cancer registry for the province of Lleida (Spain), the Primary Care Centers database, and the Catalan Health Service Register. …”
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Cigarette Smoking Associated with Colorectal Cancer Survival: A Nationwide, Population-Based Cohort Study by Yu-Min Huang, Po-Li Wei, Chung-Han Ho, Chih-Ching Yeh

“…We investigate whether cigarette smoking is associated with survival in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) through a nationwide population-based cohort study in Taiwan. The Taiwan Cancer Registry and National Health Insurance Research Database were used to identify data from patients with CRC from 2011 to 2017. …”
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Improved prognosis in soft-tissue sarcoma of extremity and trunk wall: Comparison of patients diagnosed during 1998–2001 and 2005–2010 in Finland by Mika M Sampo, Katariina Klintrup, Erkki J Tukiainen, Tom O Böhling, Carl P Blomqvist

“…Patients and methods — 2 cohorts of patients with STS of the extremities or trunk diagnosed during the periods 1998–2001 and 2005–2010 were retrieved from the nationwide Finnish Cancer Registry. Detailed information was gathered from patient files. …”
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A complex systems model of breast cancer etiology: The Paradigm II Model. by Robert A Hiatt, Lee Worden, David Rehkopf, Natalie Engmann, Melissa Troester, John S Witte, Kaya Balke, Christian Jackson, Janice Barlow, Suzanne E Fenton, Sarah Gehlert, Ross A Hammond, George Kaplan, John Kornak, Krisida Nishioka, Thomas McKone, Martyn T Smith, Leonardo Trasande, Travis C Porco

“…Census, the California Health Interview Survey, the California Cancer Registry, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the literature. …”
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Income in Adult Survivors of Childhood Cancer. by Laura Wengenroth, Grit Sommer, Matthias Schindler, Ben D Spycher, Nicolas X von der Weid, Eveline Stutz-Grunder, Gisela Michel, Claudia E Kuehni, Swiss Paediatric Oncology Group (SPOG)

“…METHODS:As part of the Swiss Childhood Cancer Survivor Study (SCCSS), a questionnaire was sent to survivors, aged ≥18 years, registered in the Swiss Childhood Cancer Registry (SCCR), diagnosed at age <21 years, who had survived ≥5 years after diagnosis of the primary tumor. …”
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The ban on phenacetin is associated with changes in the incidence trends of upper‐urinary tract cancers in Australia by Sebastien Antoni, Isabelle Soerjomataram, Suzanne Moore, Jacques Ferlay, Freddy Sitas, David P. Smith, David Forman

“…Methods: We used cancer registry data from Australia, where phenacetin was widely used, to study age‐ and sex‐specific incidence trends of cancers of the renal pelvis and the ureter after the phenacetin ban (1979). …”
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Trends in Participation Rates of the National Cancer Screening Program among Cancer Survivors in Korea by E Hwa Yun, Seri Hong, Eun Young Her, Bomi Park, Mina Suh, Kui Son Choi, Jae Kwan Jun

“…Cancer survivors were defined as those registered for any cancer in the Korea Central Cancer Registry by December 31 of the year prior to being included in the target population of the NCSP. …”
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Analysis of the morbidity of breast cancer in Ukraine and the city of Kyiv by Y. D. Rafalska, K. L. Kosyachenko

“…The study used data on the incidence and mortality from breast cancer in women of the National Cancer Registry of Ukraine for 2011–2021. Analytical-comparative, epidemiological, graphic, and mathematical-statistical methods were used. …”
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The Role of Stereotactic Radiotherapy in the Management of Melanoma, A Retrospective Single Institute Preliminary Study of 30 Patients by Mihály Kispál, Levente Zsolt Jánváry, Tímea Balatoni, Stelczer Gábor, Imre Fedorcsák, Bőcs Katalin, István Kenessey, Gabriella Liszkay

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Factors Favoring Long Term Survival in Patients with Stage IV Epithelial Ovarian Cancer: An Institutional Research by Hafiz Abubakar Sarwar, Jhanzeb Iftikhar, Samia Yasmeen, Fareeha Sheikh, Fatima Ali, Aamir Ali Syed, Neelam Siddiqui

“…Patient’s demographics, clinical data and histopathology were abstracted from cancer registry department of our hospital. Chi-square test was used to find the association between clinic-pathological variables and long term survival. …”
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Patient and Provider Perspectives on Barriers to Accessing Gynecologic Oncologists for Ovarian Cancer Surgical Care by Kristin Weeks, Michele West, Charles Lynch, Lisa Hunter, Chelsea Keenan, Savannah Borman, Megan McDonald, Mary Charlton

“…Materials and Methods: Patients and providers were sampled through the Iowa Cancer Registry. Participants were interviewed by telephone about barriers that patients face receiving surgical care from a specialist. …”
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Use of [¹⁸F]Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography after Curative Treatment of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Patients: A Nationwide Cohort Stud... by Kasper Foged Guldbrandsen, Liza Sopina, Torben Riis Rasmussen, Barbara Malene Fischer

“…Data from 13,758 NSCLC patients diagnosed between 2007 and 2020 identified in the Danish Lung Cancer Registry, who underwent curative-intent treatment, were analyzed using multivariable regression. …”
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Cancer risks in a population-based study of agricultural workers: results from the Taiwan’s Farmers and Health Cohort study by Wei-Liang Chen, Gwan-Ling Lin, Yu-Jen Lin, Ting-Yao Su, Chung-Ching Wang, Wei-Te Wu

“…The study population was linked to the National Cancer Registry to identify new cancer cases between 2000 and 2018. …”
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