Author/Authors :
Khosravi Shadmani Fatemeh نويسنده Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health,Kerman University of Medical Sciences,Kerman,Iran , Mansouri hanis Shiva نويسنده School of Public Health,Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences,Tehran,Iran , Khazaei Salman نويسنده Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran , Ayubi Erfan نويسنده Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Mansori Kamyar نويسنده Dezful University of Medical Sciences, Dezful, Iran , Gholamaliee Behzad نويسنده Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran , Khazaei Somayeh نويسنده Department of Operating Room,School of Paramedicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran , Soheylizad Mokhtar نويسنده Social Development and Health Promotion Research Center, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran , Sani Mohadeseh نويسنده Department of public health, School of public health, Zabol University of Medical Sciences, Zabol, Iran
Abstract :
Background: Esophageal cancer is the second most common malignancy in Iranian
men and third most common in Iranian women.The aim of this study is to discover
the geographic distribution for age-standardized incidence rate of esophageal cancer
among both genders in Iran.
Methods: This ecological study used re-analysis medical records aggregated to
provinces from the National Cancer Registry and Disease Control and Prevention
Report of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education for esophageal cancer in 2008.
For each province, we calculated the average annual age-standardized incidence rate.
Results: Squamous cell carcinoma was the most common histological type of
esophageal cancer in males (65.4%) and females (75%). The age-standardized
incidence rate for esophageal cancer in Western, Northwest, Northern and Northeast
provinces of Iran were higher than other provinces. We observed the highest agestandardized
incidence rate in both genders in the 80-84 year age group with 147.5 in
males and 114.5 in females.
Conclusion: Given that the Western, Northwest, Northern, and Northeast provinces
were hot zones for esophageal cancer in Iran, increased access to screening services
and implementation of prevention programs should be considered.
