Fatemeh Ghasemi-Kebria, Abdolreza Fazel, Shahryar Semnani, Arash Etemadi, Mohammad Naeimi-Tabiei, Susan Hasanpour-Heidari, Faezeh Salamat, Nastaran Jafari-Delouie, SeyedMehdi Sedaghat, Hamideh Sadeghzadeh, Mahnaz Akbari, Mahshid Mehrjerdian, Elisabete Weiderpass, Gholamreza Roshandel, Freddie Bray, Reza Malekzadeh
BACKGROUND: We aimed to examine the effects of age, diagnosis year (calendar period) and birth year (cohort) on the incidence trends of breast cancer among Golestan women, Northeast Iran, 2004-2018. METHODS: Incidence data were obtained by residential status (urban/rural) and ethnic region (Turkmens/non-Turkmens). We calculated age-standardized incidence rates (ASRs) per 100,000 person-years. The estimated annual percentage change (EAPC) were calculated, and age-period-cohort (APC) models fitted to assess non-linear effects of period and cohort as incidence rate ratios (IRRs)...
January 15, 2024: Cancer Epidemiology