Lung cancer incidence in Sulaimani province during (2011–2015)

Abstract

Lung cancer is the high frequent form of cancer in the world (12.3% of all cancers). It was estimated to be 1.8 million new cases in 2012 (12.9% of the total), 58% of which occurred in the developing countries (Ferlay et al., 2013 [1]). According to International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), lung cancer is one of the most common causes of death worldwide. In recent years incidence of bronchogenic cancer has been growing in different areas of Sulaimani11Sulaimani also called Sulaimaniyah or Slemani. Governorate, which is one of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s governorates located at northern Iraq. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence rate of new lung cancer cases and its distribution in different areas of Sulaimani Governorate (excluding mortality and prevalence data) from 2011 to 2015. Our data source was Hiwa hospital which is the only referral hospital in the governorate. Totally 611 cases of lung cancer were recorded during the period 2011–2015 with 483 male, 128 female cases and also the annual crude rate for all age groups and both sexes was 6.3 per 105 population per year with the annual percentage of 8.5% of all cancers. Our finding was that lung cancer incidence rate increased significantly with increasing in age and the incidence rate of lung cancer increased with time in Sulaimani province. ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to determine the incidence rate of new lung cancer cases and its distribution in different areas of Sulaimani Governorate (excluding mortality and prevalence data) from 2011 to 2015.