TY - JOUR
T1 - Cancer mortality in Menofeia, Egypt
T2 - Comparison with US mortality rates
AU - Soliman, Amr S.
AU - Bondy, Melissa L.
AU - Raouf, Ahmed A.
AU - Makram, Moselhy A.
AU - Johnston, Dennis A.
AU - Levin, Bernard
N1 - Funding Information:
A.S.S. was supported in part by the Cancer Research Foundation of America. We thank Mr Jude Richard of the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center's Department of Scientific Publications for his editorial comments, and Ms Joanne Sider and Ms Joyce Brown for their assistance in preparing the manuscript.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - Objectives: In developing countries where cancer registries are unavailable, mortality statistics from death certification may be a practical source of cancer statistics. We aimed at describing the cancer mortality in Egypt and comparing it to that in the US. Methods: We used the mandatory and routinely available mortality records of Menofeia province in the Nile Delta region of Egypt, which is typical of the rest of Egypt. We determined cancer mortality rates, and compared them with the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) mortality rates of the US. Results: Bladder and liver cancers were the two most common causes of cancer mortality in Menofeia, Egypt. When adjusted for age the Egyptian rates were much higher than the US rates (9.5/100,000 and 8.4/100,000 for bladder and liver cancer, respectively, compared with 2.3/100,000 and 2.5/100,000 for the same cancers from SEER data). We also observed that age-specific rates for early-onset colorectal cancer under age 40 and premenopausal breast cancer were higher in Egypt than in the US. Conclusion: This study confirms our earlier observations about the higher proportion of early-onset colorectal cancer in Egypt, and opens the door for future studies to investigate familial clustering of cancer in Egypt.
AB - Objectives: In developing countries where cancer registries are unavailable, mortality statistics from death certification may be a practical source of cancer statistics. We aimed at describing the cancer mortality in Egypt and comparing it to that in the US. Methods: We used the mandatory and routinely available mortality records of Menofeia province in the Nile Delta region of Egypt, which is typical of the rest of Egypt. We determined cancer mortality rates, and compared them with the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) mortality rates of the US. Results: Bladder and liver cancers were the two most common causes of cancer mortality in Menofeia, Egypt. When adjusted for age the Egyptian rates were much higher than the US rates (9.5/100,000 and 8.4/100,000 for bladder and liver cancer, respectively, compared with 2.3/100,000 and 2.5/100,000 for the same cancers from SEER data). We also observed that age-specific rates for early-onset colorectal cancer under age 40 and premenopausal breast cancer were higher in Egypt than in the US. Conclusion: This study confirms our earlier observations about the higher proportion of early-onset colorectal cancer in Egypt, and opens the door for future studies to investigate familial clustering of cancer in Egypt.
KW - Cancer mortality
KW - Colorectal cancer
KW - Developing countries
KW - Egypt
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U2 - 10.1023/A:1008968701313
DO - 10.1023/A:1008968701313
M3 - Article
C2 - 10530604
AN - SCOPUS:0032879189
VL - 10
SP - 349
EP - 354
JO - Cancer Causes and Control
JF - Cancer Causes and Control
SN - 0957-5243
IS - 5
ER -