Abstract
Liver cancer (LC) is the sixth world most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death. Due to the importance and necessity of awareness about the incidence and mortality of diseases to perform prevention programs, this study focused on data for LC and its relationship with the human development index (HDI) and its components in Asia in 2012. This ecological study was based on GLOBOCAN data for Asian countries. We assessed correlations between standardized incidence rates (SIR) and standardized mortality rates (SMR) of LC with HDI and its components using of SPSS18. A total of 582,420 incident cases and 557,097 deaths were recorded in Asian countries in 2012. The five with the highest SIR were Mongolia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Republic of Korea and Thailand and those with the highest SMR were Mongolia, Lao PDR, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand. A negative relation was observed between HDI and LC for SIR of 0.049 (P=0.748) and for SMR of 0.07 (P=0.645), with life expectancy at birth a positive relation for SIR of 0.061 (P=0.687) and a negative relation for SMR of 0.079 (P=0.603), with the average years of education a negative relation fo SIR of 0.476 (p=0.952) and for SMR of 0.032 (P=0.832), and with the country income level per person a negative relation for SMI of 0.11 (p=0.465) and for SMR of 0.113 (P=0.455). The incidence of LC is more in less developed and developing countries but statistically significant correlations were not found between standardized incidence and mortality rates of LC, and HDI and its dimensions.
Highlights
Cancer in 2013 was among the main leading causes of illness and death worldwide with an annual incidence of 14.9 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths caused
Due to the importance and necessity of awareness about the incidence and mortality of diseases to perform prevention programs, this study focused on data for Liver cancer (LC) and its relationship with the human development index (HDI) and its components in Asia in 2012
We assessed correlations between standardized incidence rates (SIR) and standardized mortality rates (SMR) of LC with Human Development Index (HDI) and its components using of SPSS18
Summary
Cancer in 2013 was among the main leading causes of illness and death worldwide with an annual incidence of 14.9 million new cases and 8.2 million deaths caused. Liver cancer is among the most common cancers in the world (Wei et al, 2014) so that this cancer is the fifth most common cancer in men (Hall and Wild, 2003) and the ninth most common cancer in women worldwide This cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death worldwide in 2012 (Pakzad et al, 2015b). Liver cancer mortality is rapidly increasing since 1970 Due to this point that more than 85 percent of liver cancer new cases occur in developing countries which do not have proper diagnostic and treatment facilities (Ferlay et al, 2010), the case fatality rate will rise so that the 5-year mortality rate of the disease is about 95% in the world (Hall and Wild, 2003). Conclusions: The incidence of LC is more in less developed and developing countries but statistically significant correlations were not found between standardized incidence and mortality rates of LC, and HDI and its dimensions
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