The First Statistical Analysis of BUZIM Cancer Types

Abstract

Cancer is referred to as malignancy and presented uncontrolled proliferation of cell. Although some of the types are mostly observed, some of them could be in rare amount. Cancer can be affected by many factors including smoking, drinking, obesity, hormones, and environment. Biostatistics is a powerful tool for describing and summarizing different data. This work has been firstly done to analyse the cancer type and rate in Buzim, a city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to Buzim main hospital registered data analysis, cancer profiles of the city showed variety of cancer types. Descriptive statistics was used to describe the population and given insight into cancer increasing rate in municipality of the city. By the basic statistical analysis, we understood that digestive and respiratory organs cancer rate more than other and rapidly increased last decade.