# Cancer in Lahore, Pakistan, 2010-2019: an incidence study

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## TL;DR

Ten years of cancer counts from the Punjab Cancer Registry for Lahore, a city of about 11 million: more cancers were recorded in women than men, led by breast cancer.

## Summary

The population-based Punjab Cancer Registry, coordinated from Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre and using active and passive data collection, reported cancer counts and incidence rates per 100,000 by age group, sex and site for residents of Lahore district (average annual population estimated at 11.1 million) from 2010 to 2019. The authors describe it as the first report of cancer statistics over a ten-year period for any region of Pakistan.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Journal: BMJ Open
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047049
- Authors: Badar F, Mahmood S
- Findings: 58,394 incident cases were reported, 57.1% in women; adults accounted for 92.2%, adolescents 2.2% and children 5.6%.; The age-standardised incidence rate per 100,000 was 103.4 in women and 65.6 in men.; The highest rates were breast cancer in adult women (76.7), prostate cancer in adult men (10.7), bone tumours in adolescents and lymphoid leukaemia in children.; Age-specific rates peaked at 60 to 70 years, at 420 per 100,000 women and 330 per 100,000 men.
- What it means: Its authors describe it as the first report of cancer statistics over ten years for any region of Pakistan; it gives a baseline against which screening or prevention in Punjab could be measured.
- Caveats: One district, mostly urban; not representative of the whole country.; Registration depends on reports from participating centres, so some cases are likely missed, and follow-up and mortality data have been hard to collect.

## Sources

- BMJ Open 2021: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-047049
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34413099/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- institutions: [Punjab Cancer Registry](https://onco.cc/institutions/punjab-cancer-registry/), [Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre](https://onco.cc/institutions/shaukat-khanum/)

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