Burden of cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region, 2005-2015 : findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2015 Study

Collaborators Gbd 2015 Eastern Mediterranean Region Cancer Collaborators, Ubai Alsharif, Charbel El Bcheraoui, Ibrahim Khalil, Raghid Charara, Maziar Moradi-Lakeh, Ashkan Afshin, Michael Collison, Adrienne Chew, Kristopher J. Krohn, Farah Daoud, Daniel Dicker, Kyle J. Foreman, Joseph Frostad, Nicholas J. Kassebaum, Michael Kutz, Haidong Wang, Gebre Yitayih Abyu, Isaac Akinkunmi Adedeji, Aliasghar Ahmad KiadaliriMuktar Beshir Ahmed, Ayman Al-Eyadhy, Khurshid Alam, Deena Alasfoor, Raghib Ali, Reza Alizadeh-Navaei, Rajaa Al-Raddadi, Khalid A. Altirkawi, Nelson Alvis-Guzman, Erfan Amini, Nahla Anber, Palwasha Anwari, Al Artaman, Solomon Weldegebreal Asgedom, Tesfay Mehari Atey, Ashish Awasthi, Huda Omer Ba Saleem, Umar Bacha, Aleksandra Barac, Neeraj Bedi, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Zahid A. Butt, Carlos A. Castaneda-Orjuela, Abdulaal A. Chitheer, Hadi Danawi, Jose Das Neves, Dragos V. Davitoiu, Subhojit Dey, Samath D. Dharmaratne, Shirin Djalalinia, Huyen Phuc Do, Manisha Dubey, Hedyeh Ebrahimi, Donatus U. Ekwueme, Aman Yesuf Endries, Babak Eshrati, Alireza Esteghamati, Maryam S. Farvid, Seyed-Mohammad Fereshtehnejad, Florian Fischer, Tsegaye Tewelde Gebrehiwot, Sameer Vali Gopalani, Nima Hafezi-Nejad, Randah Ribhi Hamadeh, Samer Hamidi, Habtamu Abera Hareri, Roderick J. Hay, Nobuyuki Horita, Mohamed Hsairi, Mihajlo B. Jakovljevic, Jost B. Jonas, Amir Kasaeian, Nigussie Assefa Kassaw, Yousef Saleh Khader, Ejaz Ahmad Khan, Gulfaraz Khan, Daniel Kim, Yohannes Kinfu, Heidi J. Larson, Asma Abdul Latif, Shai Linn, Raimundas Lunevicius, Hassan Magdy Abd El Razek, Mohammed Magdy Abd El Razek, Azeem Majeed, Reza Malekzadeh, Deborah Carvalho Malta, Desalegn Markos, Peter Memiah, Ziad A. Memish, Walter Mendoza, Tuomo J. Meretoja, Ted R. Miller, Shafiu Mohammed, Vinay Nangia, Quyen Le Nguyen, Trang Huyen Nguyen, Felix Akpojene Ogbo, P. A. Mahesh, Eun-Kee Park, Tejas Patel, David M. Pereira, Farhad Pishgar, Farshad Pourmalek, Mostafa Qorbani, Amir Radfar, Anwar Rafay, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar, Rajesh Kumar Rai, Saleem M. Rana, Salman Rawaf, Andre M. N. Renzaho, Satar Rezaei, Kedir Teji Roba, Gholamreza Roshandel, Mahdi Safdarian, Sare Safi, Saeid Safiri, Payman Salamati, Abdallah M. Samy, Juan Ramon Sanabria, Milena M. Santric Milicevic, Benn Sartorius, Sadaf G. Sepanlou, Masood Ali Shaikh, Mark G. Shrime, Vasiliki Stathopoulou, Muawiyyah Babale Sufiyan, Rizwan Suliankatchi Abdulkader, Rafael Tabares-Seisdedos, Arash Tehrani-Banihashemi, Tesfalidet Tekelab, Mohamad-Hani Temsah, Bach Xuan Tran, Kingsley Nnanna Ukwaja, Olalekan A. Uthman, Vasiliy Victorovich Vlassov, Stein Emil Vollset, Tolassa Wakayo, Elisabete Weiderpass, Andrea Werdecker, Mohsen Yaghoubi, Mehdi Yaseri, Hassen Hamid Yimam, Naohiro Yonemoto, Maysaa El Sayed Zaki, Bassel Zein, Aisha O. Jumaan, Theo Vos, Simon I. Hay, Mohsen Naghavi, Christopher J. L. Murray, Ali H. Mokdad, Christina Fitzmaurice

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Abstract

Objectives: To estimate incidence, mortality, and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) caused by cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) between 2005 and 2015. Methods: Vital registration system and cancer registry data from the EMR region were analyzed for 29 cancer groups in 22 EMR countries using the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 methodology. Results: In 2015, cancer was responsible for 9.4% of all deaths and 5.1% of all DALYs. It accounted for 722,646 new cases, 379,093 deaths, and 11.7 million DALYs. Between 2005 and 2015, incident cases increased by 46%, deaths by 33%, and DALYs by 31%. The increase in cancer incidence was largely driven by population growth and population aging. Breast cancer, lung cancer, and leukemia were the most common cancers, while lung, breast, and stomach cancers caused most cancer deaths. Conclusions: Cancer is responsible for a substantial disease burden in the EMR, which is increasing. There is an urgent need to expand cancer prevention, screening, and awareness programs in EMR countries as well as to improve diagnosis, treatment, and palliative care services.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)151-164
Number of pages14
JournalInternational Journal of Public Health
Volume63
Issue numberSupplement 1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018

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Keywords

  • Middle East
  • cancer

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