Recognition of Geographical diffusion of Stomach Cancer in Gilan province

Subject Areas : environmental management

Bahman Ramezani Gourabi ¹ ()
Azam Hanifi ² ()

Received: 2008-05-09 Accepted : 2009-02-05 Published : 2011-06-22

Keywords: Gilan, health of geography, medical geography, Stomach Cancer,

Abstract :

Environmental and climatically conditions in each region could have effects on diffusion and out breaking diseases such as stomach Cancer. Rate of appearing of this disease in recent years in Iran and especially in Gilan province (the biggest rates in Iran) has supported the hypotheses that this problem could be very important and the cost of treatment is another major issue. The aim of this paper is recognition of geographically diffusion of Stomach Cancer in Gilan province which its dispersal has been presented on the map. The research method of this paper is medical documents from hospital, library documents, Medical studies and the period of the research is from 2000 till 2006 years. Results of this paper has shown that Stomach Cancer (the biggest rates) has diffusions in the North and Northwest and Northeast areas of Gilan province and its geographical diffusion is depended on soil combination (Molybdenum element) and the biggest rate of this cancer has been observed in Rasht and Talash township