During the Last two decades the incidence of cancer has increased in an ascending pattern worldwide. The type and pattern of cancer varies\nwith between geographical region location, people�s life style and socio-economic development status of a given country. Some types of cancers\nare more common in the developed world and others occur more frequently in developing countries. It is expectable that with increase in life\nexpectancy, adapting western life style and increasing growth of industrialization, the burden of cancer in sub-Saharan African countries is likely\nto increase in the new millennium.\nObjective: The objective of this study is to identify the pattern and type of cancer in Ethiopia based on the hospital registry for the last 14 years\nfrom 1998 up to 2010 in the only Oncology Center for the country in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital.\nMethodology: This is a retrospective study aims to determine the pattern of cancer based on hospital registry in Tikur Anbessa Specialized\nHospital, Oncology Center. All data was carefully reviewed from the registration log book, if any inadequate information was counter checked\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n \nand then SPSS statistical package was used to analyze the pattern of cancer, type and other variable.\nResult: According to our study we found that 72.8% are females and the rest 27.2 % are males. Among all patients only 10% of patients\ndid come to the center in early stage I and II. The most common malignancy in female was gynecological malignancy 47% followed by breast\ncarcinoma 26%. Ca uterine cervix found the most common malignancies among all gynecological malignancies. Head and Neck malignancy is\nfound to be the leading malignancy in male 22% followed by sarcoma 15%, Gastrointestinal 12%, Hematology malignancies and urogenital 9%\neach and Thyroid 5%.\nConclusion: Cancer has been increasingly recognized as a critical public health problem in Ethiopia, Despite this increasing burden, cancer\ncontinues to receive low public health priority in Africa, largely because of the overwhelming burden of communicable diseases and limited\nresources. In this study summarized the available information on cancer occurrence in Ethiopia, this should be helpful to raise cancer awareness\nand promote cancer prevention and control in this country. We highly recommended establishing functional population-based cancer registries\nwithin the country to facilitate cancer control strategic plan and to improve insight to policymaker about pattern and type of cancer.\nPattern of cancer in Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital Oncology center in Ethiopia from 1998 to 2010
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