Prevalence of live cancer in Indonesia: A cross sectional population-Basic Health Center (2011–2019)

Abstract

Liver-cancer is one of the health problems in Indonesia and one of the most killers for everyone in Indonesia. The prevalence of liver-cancer in Indonesia is still high and has an increase. Impact of liver-cancer is a public health problem. Many people in Indonesia suffer from liver-cancer due to a lack of awareness of the symptoms of early detection so that cancer becomes malignant and ultimately causes death. In the later stages of liver-cancer can spread to other breasts, as well as to other body organs, such as blood vessels, lymph nodes. The data used are secondary data from Basic Health Research since 2011 until 2019. This research is an observational study using a cross sectional design. Samples were taken from Indonesian people spread throughout Indonesia. Based on data collected from the Indonesian Ministry of Health, in 2011 cancer-related deaths totaled 2433 cases where liver-cancer became the-second number of-cancer that occurred in Indonesia. The GLOBOCAN, in 2012 liver cancer patients in Indonesia were 19.4%. In 2015, 263,000 deaths from liver cancer were caused by hepatitis B. Until 2019, the Ministry of Health Republic of-Indonesia showed the most common cancer case in-Indonesia ware liver cancer at 12.4/100,000 population with an average death rate of 7.6/100,000 population. Although the prevalence of liver-cancer has experienced and decreased, based on data obtained shows liver cancer has been the second-of-biggest cause of-death of-cancer-sufferers in Indonesia. Public health intervention is urgently needed to improve diagnosis, treatment, and early detection of liver-cancer in-Indonesia.