The Epidemiological Profil of Digestive Cancers in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care Facilities in Cameroon
The Epidemiological Profil of Digestive Cancers in Secondary and Tertiary Health Care Facilities in Cameroon作者机构：Department of Surgery Faculty of Health Sciences University of Buea Buea Cameroon Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences University of Yaounde I Yaounde Cameroon Digestive Surgery Unit Central Hospital of Yaounde Yaounde Cameroon Department of Surgery Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Douala Douala Cameroon
出 版 物：《Surgical Science》 (外科学（英文）)
年 卷 期：2022年第13卷第3期
页 面：98-104页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题：Digestive Cancer Secondary and Tertiary Health Care Facilities Cameroon
摘 要：Background: Cancers have been a major public health problem in developing countries in recent years. The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiological profile of digestive cancers in secondary and tertiary health care facilities in Cameroon. Methodology: This was a cross sectional and descriptive study conducted over a period of 12 months in 14 health structures over the national territory. Included in our study were patients aged 15 and above with a histologically proven digestive cancer, patients with a clinical, biological and morphologic evidence of a digestive cancer. Socio-demographic (age, gender, region of origin, profession), clinical (symptoms on diagnosis, personal and family past history, consumption habits, tumour location) and paraclinical data were recorded on a pretested questionnaire. Data was analysed using SPSS version 20.0. Quantitative data was expressed as means with their corresponding standard deviations. Chi square was used for correlation between variables. A P value 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: Five hundred and eighty-two cases of digestive cancers were recorded out of 37,780 consultations/admissions during the study period giving a prevalence of 1.5% with a male predominance (58.1%). The mean age was 53.11 ± 17.26 years (15 - 99) with 33.8% of them below 45 years of age. Tumours were predominantly localized in the liver (43.5%) and colon (24.9%). Adenocarcinoma was the most common histological type in 44.5% of all cases. Alcohol consumption was found to be associated with colorectal cancer (p = 0.028) while tobacco consumption was found to be significantly associated with oesophageal cancer (p ≤ 0.001) and gastric cancer (p = 0.0047). Conclusion: A third of patients with digestive cancers were aged less than 45 years suggesting an early onset of these cancers in our setting. Relatively low prevalence with the liver being the most common site of localisation in our setting.
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