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Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data
Cancer is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. The aim of the present study was to measure the pattern of different cancers in Kashmir, India, a cancer belt with peculiar cancer profile. A hospital based cancer registry was started by the Department of Community Medicine, Governm...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949346/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27478644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1896761 |
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author | Qurieshi, Mariya A. Khan, S. M. Salim Masoodi, Muneer A. Qurieshi, Uruj Ain, Quratul Jan, Yasmeen Haq, Inaamul Ahmad, Sheikh Zahoor |
author_facet | Qurieshi, Mariya A. Khan, S. M. Salim Masoodi, Muneer A. Qurieshi, Uruj Ain, Quratul Jan, Yasmeen Haq, Inaamul Ahmad, Sheikh Zahoor |
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description | Cancer is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. The aim of the present study was to measure the pattern of different cancers in Kashmir, India, a cancer belt with peculiar cancer profile. A hospital based cancer registry was started by the Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Srinagar, in January 2006, wherein information was collected from cancer patients who were diagnosed and treated in the hospital. Data has been analysed for a period extending from January 2006 to December 2012. Descriptive analysis has been done by using statistical software. A total of 1598 cancer patients were admitted during this period. Overall male to female ratio was 1.33 : 1. Stomach cancer was the most commonly reported cancer (25.2%), followed by colorectal cancer (16.4%) and lung cancer (13.2%) among males. For females, colorectal cancer (16.8%), breast cancer (16.1%), and stomach cancer (10.4%) were the most frequently reported cancers in order of frequency. Tobacco related cancers contributed to more than three-fourths of cancers among men and more than half of cancers for women. There is an urgent need to set up a population based cancer registration system to understand the profile of cancers specific to this geographic region. |
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spelling | pubmed-49493462016-07-31 Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data Qurieshi, Mariya A. Khan, S. M. Salim Masoodi, Muneer A. Qurieshi, Uruj Ain, Quratul Jan, Yasmeen Haq, Inaamul Ahmad, Sheikh Zahoor Adv Prev Med Research Article Cancer is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the world. The aim of the present study was to measure the pattern of different cancers in Kashmir, India, a cancer belt with peculiar cancer profile. A hospital based cancer registry was started by the Department of Community Medicine, Government Medical College, Srinagar, in January 2006, wherein information was collected from cancer patients who were diagnosed and treated in the hospital. Data has been analysed for a period extending from January 2006 to December 2012. Descriptive analysis has been done by using statistical software. A total of 1598 cancer patients were admitted during this period. Overall male to female ratio was 1.33 : 1. Stomach cancer was the most commonly reported cancer (25.2%), followed by colorectal cancer (16.4%) and lung cancer (13.2%) among males. For females, colorectal cancer (16.8%), breast cancer (16.1%), and stomach cancer (10.4%) were the most frequently reported cancers in order of frequency. Tobacco related cancers contributed to more than three-fourths of cancers among men and more than half of cancers for women. There is an urgent need to set up a population based cancer registration system to understand the profile of cancers specific to this geographic region. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-07-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4949346/ /pubmed/27478644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1896761 Text en Copyright © 2016 Mariya A. Qurieshi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Qurieshi, Mariya A. Khan, S. M. Salim Masoodi, Muneer A. Qurieshi, Uruj Ain, Quratul Jan, Yasmeen Haq, Inaamul Ahmad, Sheikh Zahoor Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data |
title | Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data |
title_full | Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data |
title_fullStr | Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data |
title_full_unstemmed | Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data |
title_short | Epidemiology of Cancers in Kashmir, India: An Analysis of Hospital Data |
title_sort | epidemiology of cancers in kashmir, india: an analysis of hospital data |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949346/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27478644 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/1896761 |
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