%0 Journal Article
%T Cancer prevalence in Pakistan: meta-analysis of various published studies to determine variation in cancer figures resulting from marked population heterogeneity in different parts of the country
%A Ahmad Raheem
%A Jamshid Abdul-Ghafar
%A Romana Idrees
%A Saira Fatima
%A Zubair Ahmad
%J Archive of "World Journal of Surgical Oncology".
%D 2018
%R 10.1186/s12957-018-1429-z
%X Prevalence of oral cancer in Pakistan. Forest plot showing prevalence (%) estimates with 95% confidence intervals and weights allocated to each study based on sample size. The overall pooled prevalence estimate was 0.09 or 9%; I2 =£¿99.7%: high heterogeneity; p value was significant (p£¿=£¿<£¿0.001
%K Cancer prevalence
%K Pakistan
%K Population heterogeneity
%K Cancer registry
%K Cancer incidence
%K Colorectal cancer
%K Gastric cancer
%K Oral cancer
%K Prostate cancer
%K Breast cancer
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034324/