While incidence and mortality rates for most cancers (including lung, colorectum, female
breast, and prostate) are decreasing in the United States and many other western countries …

The continuously increasing cost of the US healthcare system has received significant
attention. Central to the ideas aimed at curbing this trend is the use of technology in the form …

Background Breast and cervical cancer are important causes of mortality in women aged≥
15 years. We undertook annual age-specific assessments of breast and cervical cancer in …

BACKGROUND: This paper presents the latest international descriptive epidemiological
data for invasive breast cancer amongst women, including incidence, survival and mortality …

Understanding and improving the prognosis of a disease or health condition is a priority in
clinical research and practice. In this article, the authors introduce a framework of four …

Background The breast cancer survival rate is the highest among all types of cancers, and
survivors returning to work after completing treatment is extremely important in regards to …

Background Country comparisons that consider the effect of fatal and non-fatal disease
outcomes are needed for health-care planning. We calculated disability-adjusted life-years …

Background: Peripheral blood-derived inflammation-based scores such as the neutrophil–
lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet–lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have recently been proposed …

Background The authors consider whether differences in stage at diagnosis could explain
the variation in lung cancer survival between six developed countries in 2004–2007 …

This critical review of the literature assembles and compares available data on breast
cancer clinical stage, time intervals to care, and access barriers in different countries. It …