Injuries related to consumer products in Canada--a systematic literature review.

Objectives: To conduct a systematic literature review of injury related to certain consumer products.

Methods: Forty-six empirical research reports along with 32 surveillance reports from the Canadian Hospitals Injury Reporting and Prevention Program (CHIRPP) were examined to determine the approximate number of injuries associated with a given product per year and any trends in frequency. Percentages of injuries that: (1) resulted in hospitalization, (2) appeared to result from the product itself and (3) were associated with risky or inappropriate use and/or non-use of a helmet were also extracted from the reports.

Cancer and the environment: Ten topics in environmental cancer epidemiology in Canada.

This Chronic Diseases in Canada supplement is a compilation of literature reviews by scientific experts. It was initiated as follow-up to the Green Plan, the federal government's environmental agenda in the 1990s. In recognizing that Canadians are concerned about the environment and its relationship to their health, this document attempts to address some of these concerns in relation to cancer by reviewing and summarizing the epidemiological literature for ten environmental exposures, and highlighting future research needs.

Cancer in the mothers and siblings of testicular cancer patients.

Some families seem to have an increased risk of several different cancers and a reduced risk of others. Either genetic predisposition or a shared environment may explain this familial clustering, and the type of cause can affect how family members should be advised. We used data from a case-control study to examine the risk of cancer in the mother, sisters and brothers of men with testicular cancer.

Histologic staging in malignant melanoma: cross-sectional area revisited.

Background And Objectives: Tumor thickness is considered the single most important predictor of survival in clinically localized malignant melanoma. A recent study found tumor volume a more sensitive predictor of survival than thickness. Volume measurement, however, is complicated, time consuming, and based on biologically imprecise mathematical models of tumor configuration.

Survival rates among Canadian children and teenagers with cancer diagnosed between 1985 and 1988.

Purpose: To describe the survival rates among Canadian children and teenagers with cancer diagnosed between 1985 and 1988 using population-based data, specifically for the more common forms of childhood cancer, and to assess the effect of age at diagnosis and sex as prognostic factors for selected childhood cancers.

Design: Retrospective survival study based on incident cases of cancer identified by the National Cancer Incidence Reporting System and follow-up ascertained by computer record linkage to the Canadian Mortality Database.

Subjects: A total of 4409 patients with cancer first diagnosed at 19 years of age or younger between 1985 and 1988, and followed up to Dec.