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PurposePancreatic cancer (PC) has the worst prognosis among cancers and is the only cancer whose annual incidence is higher than its prevalence. Considering that many PC cases are annually diagnosed in the world, and the fact that the disease has the worst prognosis among cancers, and the prevalence of its risk factors such as diabetes, high-fat diets, smoking, population aging, etc. has been on the rise, the incidence of PC is expected to increase in the future. So, our aim was to assess the demographic features of PC patients in an Iranian population.MethodsThe present study was a descriptive cross-sectional research conducted in 2018 in the teaching hospitals affiliated with Kerman University of Medical Sciences (i.e., Afzalipour and Bahonar hospitals). The statistical population of this study was all the patients with PC, referring to these hospitals. The files of all the patients diagnosed with PC (confirmed clinically and pathologically) from the beginning of 2009 to the end of 2019 were assessed. Treatments (i.e., surgical tumor resection or other alternative treatments) were recorded into a data collection sheet. Finally, the data was entered into SPSS version 20 for performing statistical analyses. ResultsIn this study, 380 patients with PC were studied, of whom 60.5% were male, and 39.5% female. Most of the patients were in the age range of 61-70 years (26.1%), and most of them were residents of Kerman city (62.9%), followed by Jiroft (5.5%) and Bam and Iranshahr (each 4.7%). A history of alcohol consumption was noted in 9.3%, and 33.7% were exposed to cigarette smoke. The most common symptoms of the patients were jaundice (65.3%), abdominal pain (54.7%), and anorexia (50.7%). The most common tumor location was the head of the pancreas (62.4%), and the most common type of the tumors was adenocarcinoma (71%). Overall, 23.7% and 76.3% of the patients underwent chemotherapy and surgery, respectively. Of those who had surgeries, 63.8% underwent palliative surgery. Of all 380 patients, 30 (7.8%) individuals were still alive, and 350 (91.4%) had died.ConclusionThe results of this study showed that most of the PC patients were male, had an age between 61 and 70 years, and lived in Kerman and Jiroft cities. The most common tumor site was the pancreatic head, and the most common type of the tumors among both sexes was adenocarcinoma. Surgery, mostly palliative surgery, was the most frequent treatment of choice among all patients. |
