Mapping of Stomach, Colorectal, and Bladder Cancers in Iran, 2004 –2009: Applying Bayesian Polytomous Log

Conclusions:After considering known shared risk factor of the three cancers, it turns out that colorectal and bladder cancers have unknown shared risk factor. The signifcant difference in their lifestyle and eatinghabits could be an assumption of the risk factor.Keywords:Colorectal neoplasms, disease mapping, polytomous logit model, shared component model, stomach neoplasms, urinary bladder neoplasms
Source: International Journal of Preventive Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research