Aubakirova, Mina2019-07-092019-07-092019Aubakirova, Mina (2019) Association of climate and weather components with incidence of gastric cancer. Nazarbayev University School of Medicinehttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/3946Today, climate change and cancer are concurrent epidemics, and while each is under scrutiny in its own field, little research concentrates on the interaction of the two. Among other oncological diseases, stomach cancer is the second most common in males and fourth most common in females in Kazakhstan. The country itself takes the twelfth place in the world for age-standardized gastric cancer incidence rates. Therefore, the purpose of the current study is to examine the association of climate and annual weather with incidence of stomach cancer. Hospital admissions for 2014-2017 were obtained from the Ministry of Health of Kazakhstan, whereas climate and weather data were extracted from publicly available online sources. Kruskal-Wallis test, Pearson’s correlation tests, and multiple linear regression with generalized estimating equation were performed in STATA-12. The analyses were done on town levels. Thus, all 87 towns of Kazakhstan were assessed in climate analysis, and 40 towns were analyzed in terms of annual weather....enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United Statesgastric cancerMaster's thesis