Burden of the central nervous system malignancies in Iran 2003

The policy makers and social managers need some criteria for building up theappropriate health status of the community and observe the equity and equality on it. theyhave to know the burden of diseases as a main determining factor for decision making,planning and programming. disability adjusted life years (dalys) is a criteria which shows thewasted life time due to early death and also wasted time due to disease morbidity anddisability. central nervous system malignancies are important especially in children andestimating the burden of these malignancies in iran will enable the health policy makers toshare the community sources, as appropriate.material and methods: the estimation of burden of disease and risk factors was a nationalstudy that began on 2003 by the ministry of health and medical education (moh&me) afterestablishing cancer registry in the country. here by we discussed about the burden of cnsmalignancies as a part of this study. this study was performed by a special modeling and newsoftware.results: due to wasted life time of early death and morbidity, cns malignancies are the thirdmalignancy in iran. year waste in iranian population is 0.69 in each 1000 person.