The pattern and distribution of malignancies reported in hadhramout sector, Yemen-2002-2011

Abstract EN

Background: Hadhramout Sector in Yemen constitiues of three governorates (Hadhramout ,Shabwa, & Almahra) with a population of 1,684,373 inhabitanat.

Cancer cases reported from the different health care facilities are registerd in Hadhramout Cancer Registry (HCR) as a population based cancer registry.

This paper describes the incidence of cancer in the period of 10 years time (2002-2011).

Methodology: The data was analysed using the CanReg4 programme and the incidence rate was calculated based on mid-time total population in each period.

Results: The cancers were more frequent in females (55.5%) than males (44.5%).

The three most common types were breast (17.5 %), leukemia (7.1%), and Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (7.1%).

In the pediatric group, leukemia (25.2%) was most common cancer.

Conclusions: Breast cancer in females and hematological malignancies in males were the most frequent types of malignancies.

Leukemias were the most common cancers in children.

Our results generally indicate that the pattern of the most common registered cancer bears some similarities with the Aden and Gulf’s data with some differences that necceciate furhter evaluation.