TY - JOUR ID - 57587 TI - Thirty Years Cancer Incidence Data for Lahore, Pakistan: Trends and Patterns 1984-2014 JO - Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention JA - APJCP LA - en SN - 1513-7368 AU - Masood, Andleeb AU - Masood, Khalid AU - Hussain, Mazhar AU - Ali, Waqar AU - Riaz, Masooma AU - Alluddin, Zafar AU - Ahmad, Munir AU - Masood, Misbah AU - Shahid, Abubaker AD - Cancer Incidence Statistical Analysis Group, Department of Physics, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan. AD - Cancer Prevention and Control Research Group, Department of Medical Physics, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Lahore, Pakistan. AD - Mining Data for Productive Decision Making Group, Department of Computer Science, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan. AD - Radiation Therapy Research Group, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Lahore, Pakistan. AD - Member Clinical Oncology Research Group, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Lahore, Pakistan. AD - Incharge Clinical Oncology Research Group, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Lahore, Pakistan. AD - Director Regional PAEC Cancer Prevention and Control Research Group, Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Oncology Lahore, Pakistan. Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 19 IS - 3 SP - 709 EP - 717 KW - Cancer-Incidence KW - cancer-diagnosis KW - breast-cancer KW - cancer-survival-Pakistan DO - 10.22034/APJCP.2018.19.3.709 N2 - This research was conducted to generate trends and patterns of most common male and female cancers from1984-2014 for the city population of Lahore Pakistan. Cancer incidence data gathered for different organs wereprocessed through cleaning, integration, transformation, reduction and mining for ultimate representation. Risk ofcancer appeared to be continuously increasing among both males and females. Overall, lymphomas and breast cancerare the most common neoplasm in males and females, respectively, in Lahore with almost the highest rates in the AsianPacific region. The incidence of head and neck, brain, and lung cancers, as well as leukemia have rapidly increasedamong males, whereas, ovarian, cervix, head and neck and lymphomas have become more common among females.The present communication should be helpful for adequate strategic planning, identification of risk factors and takingappropriate prevention and control measures at the national level. UR - https://journal.waocp.org/article_57587.html L1 - https://journal.waocp.org/article_57587_83c7c36caec49ed5c5ab8cceb5e5e377.pdf ER -