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Retrospective epidemiological study on stomach cancer in a region of western Algeria: about 394 cases between 2011 and 2015

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Purpose

Stomach cancer is a major global health problem; it is one of the ten most common cancers with poor survival, and its incidence is characterized by wide variation. The aim of this work is to carry out a retrospective epidemiological study on gastric cancer in the wilaya of Tlemcen (West Algeria) over a period of 5 years (2011–2015).

Methods

The data set was provided by the cancer registry of the Tlemcen wilaya. The statistical analysis was performed using software SPSS.21.

Results

During this period, 394 cases of gastric cancers were collected, including 199 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma (50.50%); gastric cancer was ranked in 5th rank of the ten most answered cancers in the wilaya. The average age of the patients was 60.5 ±  14.208 years (60.618 ±  13.556 men, 56.654 ±  14.8761 women) with an extremity ranging from 18 to 91 years. A predominance of men has been observed with 60.4% against 39.6% of women, with a sex ratio of 1.5 and a significant difference between the two sexes (p = 0.08). Patients over 50 years of age represented the predominant age group (73.4%). The tumor topography was antropyloric in 6.09% of the cases, and the vast majority of the diagnosed cases was in the local stage (17.01%).

Conclusion

Stomach cancer remains one of the top ten cancers in the Tlemcen willaya, so extensive research on the risk factors for gastric cancer remains important to plan effective preventive and curative strategies to reduce this burden.

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  1. Department of Biology, Laboratory of Microbiology Applied to the Food Industry, to Biomedical and to the Environment (LAMAABE), University Abou-Bekr Belkaid, Ex biomedical complex Imama Bloc C BP 119, 13000, Tlemcen, Algeria

    Dalale Behar, Lamia Boublenza, Hafida Hassaine, Bouchra Dahmani, Nabila Masdoua & Amira Nahet

  2. Department of Medicine Cancer Laboratory, Abou-Bekr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria

    Lamia Boublenza, Nafissa Chabni & Kaouel Meguenni

  3. Department of Epidemiology, Dr Tidjani Damerdji University Hospital, Abou-Bekr Belkaid University, Tlemcen, Algeria

    Nafissa Chabni & Kaouel Meguenni

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Writing: Behar D, correction: Doublenz L, data source and analysis: Chabni N, data source: Meguenni K, revision: Hassain H, Dahmani B,Msdoua N, Nahet A.

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Behar, D., Boublenza, L., Chabni, N. et al. Retrospective epidemiological study on stomach cancer in a region of western Algeria: about 394 cases between 2011 and 2015. J Gastrointest Canc 52, 706–710 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12029-020-00459-z

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