Yet, few realize that Pakistan, a country located in South Asia and classified as part of the third-world, suffers from a high burden of breast cancer. The Karachi Cancer Registry suggests that the age-standardized annual rate of breast cancer in Pakistan is 69.1 per 100,000, a figure ...
Background: Breast cancer (BCa) is the most common cause of cancer death in Pakistan. In 2019, Pakistan saw the highest global BCa-associated death rate. But do Pakistani women know about the various aspects of BCa? And how prevalent are BCa screening methods amongst Pakistani females? These...
The five most common cancers in women pertained to the breast (22.9%), lung (9.9%), corpus uteri (7.0%), colon (5.9%), and ovary (4.3%; Fig. 5). The age-standardized incidence rate was 95 per 100,000 for breast cancer, 40 for lung cancer, 29 for corpus uteri cancer, 24 for...
The majority of countries had an age-standardised cancer rate sex ratio of less than 1.4 (Table 2), with nine countries ratio being greater than this (China 1.42; Singapore 1.46; Egypt 1.48; Uganda 1.49; India 1.57; Pakistan 1.58; Zimbabwe 1.60; Chile 1.71; Bahrain 1.84). Excluding ...
Breast cancer remains a pressing concern for women all around the world, but its rate is quite high in Pakistan. Given that early detection can significantly lower the mortality rate among breast cancer patients, one would expect timely screening and checkups to be commonplace in the country. Unf...
Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world, where almost 80 million of the people (approximately 50% of the population) suffer from one of such chronic conditions [9]. It is necessary to monitor cancer thoroughly considering the rapid rate at which the disease burden is ...
In cancer immunotherapy, cytokines have played an important role since this approach was the first to create a balance between anti-tumor immune response and cancer. Studies have reported that the high dose of IFN-α and IL-2 although having high toxicity and low response rate, when used with...
the survival rate for head and neck cancers is one of the poorest. Less than 50% of the patients survive five years or more after initial diagnosis. This is because the early signs of head and neck cancers are frequently ignored. Hence, when it is first diagnosed, it is often in an ad...
Meanwhile, individuals of Hispanic origin exhibit GSTT1 deletions at a rate of 10–12% (155–158). In terms of ethnicity, Asians are more susceptible to HNC associated with GSTT1 null genotype, compared to their European and American counterparts (107). The present meta-analysis reported that...
Figure 4. Average Annual Percent Change in Age-Standarized Mortality Rate in Both Sexes for All Cancers From 2006 to 2016 View LargeDownload ATG indicates Antigua and Barbuda; BRB, Barbados; COM, Comoros; DMA, Dominica; E Med: Eastern Mediterranean; FJI, Fiji; FSM, Federated States of Micron...