Abstract
BackgroundThe aim was to use the existing surveillance data sources of cancer in Morocco that could be used to better describe cancer mortality and incidence trends in Morocco.MethodsNational incidence data were derived from population-based cancer registries. Mortality data were collected from the international GLOBOCAN database.ResultsAn overview of the main results was presented. In general, the most commonly diagnosed cancers in men are lung and prostates whereas in women, breast and cervical cancers are the pre-dominant cancers. Fifty nine percent and of breast and 65.7 % of cervical cancers in women are diagnosed at stages II and III. Cancer remains the second highest cause of mortality in Morocco.ConclusionThe data provides a description of the cancer incidence and trends in the Moroccan population. The Moroccan national cancer program should aim for more coherent, consistent and comparable incidence data between different cancer registries in the country, and develop uniform datasets with respect to quality.
Highlights
L'objectif était d'utiliser les sources de données existantes de surveillance du cancer qui pourraient être utiles pour décrire les tendances d’incidence et de mortalité du cancer au Maroc
Morbidity and mortality statistics on cancer were obtained from national and internationaldata sources: whereas national data on cancer were mainly provided by the Moroccan cancer registries, international estimates are mainly based on data available from the IARC
The Rabat cancer registry revealed the same pattern with regards to cancer localizations (Figs. 1 and 2)
Summary
L'objectif était d'utiliser les sources de données existantes de surveillance du cancer qui pourraient être utiles pour décrire les tendances d’incidence et de mortalité du cancer au Maroc. Conclusion: Les données fournissent une description de l'incidence des cancers et leurs tendances dans la population marocaine. Le programme national du cancer marocaine devrait viser pour les données d'incidence cohérents et comparables entre les différents registres du cancer dans le pays, et de développer des ensembles de données uniformes par rapport à la qualité. The Moroccan national cancer program should aim for more coherent, consistent and comparable incidence data between different cancer registries in the country, and develop uniform datasets with respect to quality. Cancer imposes a heavy economic, health, and social burden It is a global pandemic affecting both developed and developing regions, but the cancer toll is rapidly increasing in low and middle-income countries, where resources for prevention, diagnosis and treatment are limited or nonexistent [2]. The professional oncology community is being increasingly called upon to define pragmatic and realistic approaches in order to provide decision makers with the evidence that cancer is increasingly growing a major public health problem and provide information that can be used to monitor its public health threats to general population [4]
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