The objective of this study was to estimate trends of disease during a twenty years period when Iraq underwent three destructive wars and economic sanctions and to study their relation to other demographic criteria and outcome of malignancy in term of survival or death. All types of childhood malignancy were studied except brain tumors that treated at the Neurosurgical Hospital. This cross-sectional study was based on a review of case records of patients admitted to Children Welfare Hospital in Baghdad over a twenty year period starting from first of January 1985 to the thirty first of...

Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is one of the most common viruses in the modern world and ranked by the WHO as one of the top ten killers. It is responsible for approximately 1.5 million deaths worldwide each year, two thirds of which are attributable to primary hepatic carcinoma following HBV infection. Hepatitis B is preventable with a safe and effective vaccine, the first vaccine against cancer due to HBV infection. The prevalence of HBV infection varies from country to country and depends upon a complex mixture of behavioral, environmental and host factors. The knowledge of the prevalence of...