Open AccessChanging Incidence of Uterine Cancer in Rural Egypt: Possible Impact of Nutritional and Epidemiologic Transitions
Author(s) -
Saad Alshahrani,
Ahmed Hablas,
Robert M. Chamberlain,
Jane L. Meza,
Steven W. Remmenga,
Ibrahim A. Seifeldin,
Mohamed Ramadan,
Amr S. Soliman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of global oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.002
H-Index - 17
ISSN - 2378-9506
DOI - 10.1200/jgo.18.00255
Subject(s) - medicine , rural area , residence , uterine cancer , cancer registry , demography , incidence (geometry) , cancer , population , environmental health , pathology , physics , sociology , optics
Uterine cancer is a top-ranking women's cancer worldwide, with wide incidence variations across countries and by rural and urban areas. Hormonal exposures and access to health care vary between rural and urban areas, globally. Egypt has an overall low incidence of uterine cancer but variable rural and urban lifestyles. Are there changes in the incidence of uterine cancer in rural and urban areas in middle-income countries such as Egypt? No previous studies have addressed this question from a well-characterized and validated population-based cancer registry resource in middle-income countries. The aim of this study was to explore the differences in clinical and demographic characteristics of uterine cancer over the period of 1999 to 2010 in rural and urban Gharbiah province, Egypt.