# Cancer Incidence in Egypt: Results of the National Population-Based Cancer Registry Program

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## TL;DR

The national cancer incidence figures from Egypt's registry programme, the only ones OnCo found: registries in three governorates from 2008 to 2011 put liver, breast and bladder cancer first and projected cancers to nearly treble by 2050.

## Summary

The National Cancer Registry Program of Egypt stratified the country into Lower, Middle and Upper Egypt and ran a population-based registry in one governorate of each: Damietta (2009 to 2011), Minya (2009) and Aswan (2008), together covering 20.9% of Egypt's population. Abstractors collected data from cancer centres, national tertiary institutions, the Health Insurance Organization, the government-subsidised treatment programme and death records. Regional age-specific rates were applied to the national population to give national incidence, and to projected populations for estimates up to 2050. The authors are from the National Cancer Institute of Cairo University, the South Egypt Cancer Institute of Assiut University and Cairo University's Faculty of Engineering.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Journal: Journal of Cancer Epidemiology
- Year: 2014
- DOI: 10.1155/2014/437971
- Authors: Ibrahim AS, Khaled HM, Mikhail NN, Baraka H, Kamel H
- Findings: Age-standardised incidence (world standard) was 166.6 per 100,000 for both sexes, 175.9 in men and 157.0 in women, excluding non-melanoma skin cancer.; Liver was 23.8% of cancers (age-standardised rate 43.6), breast 15.4% (24.3) and bladder 6.9% (13.5); in men liver was 33.6% and bladder 10.7%, in women breast 32.0% and liver 13.5%.; Liver cancer was highest in Lower Egypt (age-standardised rate 56.8 per 100,000) and lowest in Upper Egypt (13.1).; Applying the same rates to projected populations gives 114,985 new cancers in 2013, 168,723 in 2025 and 331,169 in 2050.; Death-certificate-only cases were almost 8% of registrations.
- What it means: These are the national incidence figures Egypt's own registry has published, and IARC's estimates for Egypt are built on subnational rates of this kind. They describe 2008 to 2011, before the national hepatitis C treatment campaign, so the liver cancer share may not describe Egypt today.
- Caveats: The authors note that the rates rest on a short initial phase of registration and a mathematical model that applies regional rates to the whole country.; Greater Cairo was not one of the three registry governorates.; The projections assume rates stay as they were in 2008 to 2011.

## Sources

- J Cancer Epidemiol 2014: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/437971
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25328522/
- Full text, Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC4189936

## Connected records

- cancers: [Bladder & urothelial cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/urothelial/), [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Hepatocellular carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/)
- technologies: [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/)
- institutions: [National Cancer Institute, Cairo University](https://onco.cc/institutions/nci-cairo/), [National Population-Based Cancer Registry Program of Egypt](https://onco.cc/institutions/egypt-national-cancer-registry-program/)

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