Three Years of Population-Based Cancer Registration in Kumasi: Providing Evidence for Population-Based Cancer Surveillance in Ghana
| Autor: | Fred K. Awittor, Kwame O. Boadu, Dennis Odai Laryea, Cobbold Sonia |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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0301 basic medicine
Gynecology medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study business.industry Obstetrics Population Cancer Cancer registration Population based medicine.disease Cancer registry 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure Prostate 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis General Earth and Planetary Sciences Medicine business education Cervix General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Online Journal of Public Health Informatics. 8 |
| ISSN: | 1947-2579 |
| DOI: | 10.5210/ojphi.v8i1.6548 |
| Popis: | Population-based cancer registration is not common practice in developing countries. Ghana's first PBCR, the Kumasi Cancer Registry was established in 2012. We review data from the registry from 2012 to 2014. Females accounted for the majority (64.2%) of the 1,078 cases of cancer were recorded. Breast (35.1%), Cervix (23.7%), Ovary (7.9%), Liver (3.8%) and Endometrium (3.2%) were the top five cancers among females. Among males, the commonest cancers were Liver (21.8%), Prostate (17.9%), Stomach (4.1%), Lung (3.4%) and Bone marrow (2.9%). Histology was the basis of diagnosis for 58.7%. There is the need to establish more such registries in Ghana. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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