Relative Risk of Death in Bulgarian Cancer Patients during the Initial Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Velizar Shivarov, Denitsa Grigorova, Angel Yordanov

“…Materials and Methods: Data from the Bulgarian National Statistical Institute and the Bulgarian National Cancer Registry were analyzed to estimate monthly RR of death in cancer patients compared to the general population before and during the first two years of the pandemic. …”
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Inverse Association between Statin Use and Cancer Mortality Relates to Cholesterol Level by Antti I. Peltomaa, Kirsi Talala, Kimmo Taari, Teuvo L. J. Tammela, Anssi Auvinen, Teemu J. Murtola

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Candidemia Risk Prediction (CanDETEC) Model for Patients With Malignancy: Model Development and Validation in a Single-Center Retrospective Study by Junsang Yoo, Si-Ho Kim, Sujeong Hur, Juhyung Ha, Kyungmin Huh, Won Chul Cha

“…MethodsWe conducted a single-center retrospective study using the cancer registry of a tertiary academic hospital. Adult patients diagnosed with malignancies between January 2010 and December 2018 were included. …”
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Rural residency and prostate cancer specific mortality: results from the Victorian Radical Prostatectomy Register by Nathan Papa, Nathan Lawrentschuk, David Muller, Robert MacInnis, Anthony Ta, Gianluca Severi, Jeremy Millar, Rodney Syme, Graham Giles, Damien Bolton

“…Methods: Men who underwent open radical prostatectomy (RP) in Victoria from 1995 to 2000 were recorded in a population register co‐ordinated by the Victorian Cancer Registry and Cancer Council Victoria. Baseline clinical, pathological and demographic information such as location were recorded and linked to mortality and recurrence data. …”
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Lung Cancer Incidence by Detailed Race–Ethnicity by Hannah M. Cranford, Tulay Koru-Sengul, Gilberto Lopes, Paulo S. Pinheiro

“…We used LC data from the Florida state cancer registry, 2012–2018, to compute LC age-adjusted incidence rates (AAIR) for US-born Black, Caribbean-born Black, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican, and Central and South American populations. …”
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Trend analysis and survival of primary gallbladder cancer in the United States: a 1973–2009 population‐based study by Rubayat Rahman, Eduardo J. Simoes, Chester Schmaltz, Christian S. Jackson, Jamal A. Ibdah

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Factors predicting death and cancer in patients with giant cell arteritis in Western Norway 1972–2012: a retrospective observational cohort study by Lene Kristin Brekke, Lene Kristin Brekke, Jörg Assmus, Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang, Bjørg-Tilde Svanes Fevang

“…Medical records were reviewed and data about registered deaths and cancer occurrences were extracted from the Norwegian Cause of Death Registry and the Cancer Registry of Norway. We investigated predicting factors using Cox proportional hazards regression.ResultsWe identified 881 cases with a validated diagnosis of GCA (60% biopsy-verified). 490 patients (56%) died during the study period. …”
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Social determinants influencing cervical cancer diagnosis: an ecological study by Juan Fernando Galindo, Giovana Moura Formigari, Luiz Carlos Zeferino, Carla Fabrine Carvalho, Edson Luiz Ursini, Diama Bhadra Vale

“…The ISR was identified through government platforms and data on cancer through the Hospital Cancer Registry. The subjects were the 9,095 women aged 30 years or older. …”
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CT-Detected Subsolid Nodules: A Predictor of Lung Cancer Development at Another Location? by Anton Schreuder, Mathias Prokop, Ernst T. Scholten, Onno M. Mets, Kaman Chung, Firdaus A. A. Mohamed Hoesein, Colin Jacobs, Cornelia M. Schaefer-Prokop

“…Patients scanned between 2004 and 2012 at two Dutch academic hospitals were cross-linked with the Dutch Cancer Registry. All patients who were diagnosed with LC by 2014 and a random selection of LC-free patients were considered. …”
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Therapy Defining at Initial Diagnosis of Primary Brain Tumor—The Role of ¹⁸F-FET PET/CT and MRI by Dávid Gergő Nagy, Imre Fedorcsák, Attila György Bagó, Georgina Gáti, János Martos, Péter Szabó, Hajnalka Rajnai, István Kenessey, Katalin Borbély

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Survival trends of patients with oral and oropharyngeal cancer treated at a cancer center in São Paulo, Brazil by Luiz Paulo Kowalski, Max Moura de Oliveira, Rossana Veronica Mendoza Lopez, Diego Rodrigues Mendonça e Silva, Mauro Kazuo Ikeda, Maria Paula Curado

“…Data were obtained from the Hospital Cancer Registry. OS and CS were analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier method to evaluate the probability of survival with Cox predictor models. …”
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The prognostic role of cigarette smoking in Kidney Cancer Survival by Amrit Baral, Hannah M. Cranford, Janaki Sharma, Paulo S. Pinheiro

“…Methods All primary KC cases from the Florida Cancer Registry diagnosed during 2005–2018 were analyzed. …”
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Relationship between the Types of Antihypertensive Drugs and COVID-19 Outcomes by Elahe Mahmoodi, Akbar Hedayatizadeh-Omran, Mohammad Asadi, Niloufar Shetaban, Reza Alizade-Navaei, Mahmood Moosazadeh

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Disparities in oesophageal cancer risk by age, sex, and nativity in Kuwait:1980–2019 by Saeed Akhtar, Ahmad Al-Shammari, Mohammad Al-Huraiti, Fouzan Al-Anjery, Salman Al-Sabah, Anjum Memon, Iqbal Siddique

“…Methods Using oesophageal cancer incidence data from the Kuwait National Cancer Registry, relevant Kuwaiti population data and World Standard Population as a reference, age-standardized incidence rates (ASIR) (per 100,000 person-years) overall and by subcohorts were computed. …”
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Incidence and management of hepatocellular carcinoma among Māori and non‐Māori New Zealanders by Joshua Chamberlain, Diana Sarfati, Ruth Cunningham, Jonathan Koea, Jason Gurney, Tony Blakely

“…Methods: Cohorts of the NZ population (1981–2004) were created and probabilistically linked to cancer registry records to investigate trends in incidence by ethnicity over time. …”
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GT-Repeat Polymorphism in the HO-1 Gene Promoter Is Associated with Risk of Liver Cancer: A Follow-Up Study from Arseniasis-Endemic Areas in Taiwan by Meei-Maan Wu, Fang-I Hsieh, Ling-I Hsu, Te-Chang Lee, Hung-Yi Chiou, Chien-Jen Chen

“…Newly developed cancer cases were identified through linkage to the National Cancer Registry of Taiwan. Multivariate Cox regression analysis was used to evaluate the effect of the HO-1 (GT)n variants. …”
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Developing and evaluating national severity distributions for use in Burden of Disease studies: a case study of cancers in Scotland by Grant Wyper, Ian Grant, Eilidh Fletcher, Gerry McCartney, Diane Stockton

“…Methods Patient-level records from the Scottish Cancer Registry for 21 cancers were obtained and linked to death registrations. …”
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Epidemiology of Breast, Corpus Uteri, and Ovarian Cancers in Lebanon With Emphasis on Breast Cancer Incidence Trends and Risk Factors Compared to Regional and Global Rates by Najla A. Lakkis MD, MPH, Reem M. Abdallah MD, Umayya M. Musharrafieh MD, Hanane G. Issa MS, Mona H. Osman MD, MPH, MBA

“…Methods Data on female Bca, CUca, and Oca published by the Lebanese national cancer registry were obtained (ie, for the years of 2005 to 2016). …”
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Spatiotemporal variations in childhood lymphoma cancer incidence and its survival rate in Iran, 2005–2015: a cross-sectional study by Soheila Khodakarim, Samaneh Ziyaee, Mohammad Esmaeil Akbari, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha, Forough Rahimi

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial and time variations in lymphoma incidence as well as the children’s survival time in Iran.Method This cross-sectional study was conducted using lymphoma cases (children under 14 years of age) from 2005 to 2015, and the data were obtained from the National Cancer Registry Center. The frequency, age-standardised incidence rate (ASIR), spatial clustering in national level and the survival rate (1 year and 5 years) using Kaplan-Meier method were evaluated. …”
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Amyloid blood biomarker detects Alzheimer's disease by Andreas Nabers, Laura Perna, Julia Lange, Ute Mons, Jonas Schartner, Jörn Güldenhaupt, Kai‐Uwe Saum, Shorena Janelidze, Bernd Holleczek, Dan Rujescu, Oskar Hansson, Klaus Gerwert, Hermann Brenner

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