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Incidence of Gastric Cancer in Marrakech and Casablanca, Morocco

Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer globally with over 70% of new cases occurring in developing countries. In Morocco, oncologists in Marrakech suspected higher frequency of gastric cancer compared to Casablanca, a city 150 kilometers away. This study calculated age-specific, sex-specific...

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Autores principales: Smith, Brittney L., Khouchani, Mouna, Karkouri, Mehdi, Lazenby, Audrey J., Watkins, Katherine, Tahri, Ali, Benider, Abdel-Latif, Rajaram, Shireen, Soliman, Amr S.
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Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26576155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/704569
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author Smith, Brittney L.
Khouchani, Mouna
Karkouri, Mehdi
Lazenby, Audrey J.
Watkins, Katherine
Tahri, Ali
Benider, Abdel-Latif
Rajaram, Shireen
Soliman, Amr S.
author_facet Smith, Brittney L.
Khouchani, Mouna
Karkouri, Mehdi
Lazenby, Audrey J.
Watkins, Katherine
Tahri, Ali
Benider, Abdel-Latif
Rajaram, Shireen
Soliman, Amr S.
author_sort Smith, Brittney L.
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description Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer globally with over 70% of new cases occurring in developing countries. In Morocco, oncologists in Marrakech suspected higher frequency of gastric cancer compared to Casablanca, a city 150 kilometers away. This study calculated age-specific, sex-specific, and total incidence rates of gastric cancer in Marrakech and was compared to the Casablanca population-based cancer registry. Using medical records from Center Hospital University Mohammad VI and reports from 4 main private pathology laboratories in Marrakech, we identified 774 patients for the period 2008–2012. Comparison of rates showed higher age-specific incidence in Marrakech in nearly all age groups for both genders. A higher total incidence in Marrakech than in Casablanca was found with rates of 5.50 and 3.23 per 100,000, respectively. Incidence was significantly higher among males in Marrakech than males in Casablanca (7.19 and 3.91 per 100,000, resp.) and females in Marrakech compared to females in Casablanca (3.87 and 2.58 per 100,000, resp.). Future studies should address possible underestimation of gastric cancer in Marrakech, estimate incidence in other regions of Morocco, and investigate possible risk factors to explain the difference in rates.
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spelling pubmed-46318982015-11-16 Incidence of Gastric Cancer in Marrakech and Casablanca, Morocco Smith, Brittney L. Khouchani, Mouna Karkouri, Mehdi Lazenby, Audrey J. Watkins, Katherine Tahri, Ali Benider, Abdel-Latif Rajaram, Shireen Soliman, Amr S. J Cancer Epidemiol Research Article Gastric cancer is the fifth most common cancer globally with over 70% of new cases occurring in developing countries. In Morocco, oncologists in Marrakech suspected higher frequency of gastric cancer compared to Casablanca, a city 150 kilometers away. This study calculated age-specific, sex-specific, and total incidence rates of gastric cancer in Marrakech and was compared to the Casablanca population-based cancer registry. Using medical records from Center Hospital University Mohammad VI and reports from 4 main private pathology laboratories in Marrakech, we identified 774 patients for the period 2008–2012. Comparison of rates showed higher age-specific incidence in Marrakech in nearly all age groups for both genders. A higher total incidence in Marrakech than in Casablanca was found with rates of 5.50 and 3.23 per 100,000, respectively. Incidence was significantly higher among males in Marrakech than males in Casablanca (7.19 and 3.91 per 100,000, resp.) and females in Marrakech compared to females in Casablanca (3.87 and 2.58 per 100,000, resp.). Future studies should address possible underestimation of gastric cancer in Marrakech, estimate incidence in other regions of Morocco, and investigate possible risk factors to explain the difference in rates. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-10-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4631898/ /pubmed/26576155 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/704569 Text en Copyright © 2015 Brittney L. Smith et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Khouchani, Mouna
Karkouri, Mehdi
Lazenby, Audrey J.
Watkins, Katherine
Tahri, Ali
Benider, Abdel-Latif
Rajaram, Shireen
Soliman, Amr S.
Incidence of Gastric Cancer in Marrakech and Casablanca, Morocco
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4631898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26576155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/704569
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