# Cancer incidence trends in Sétif, Algeria, 1986 to 2010

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## TL;DR

Twenty-five years of data from the population-based cancer registry of Sétif, in north-eastern Algeria, show cancer incidence rising by 2.5% a year in men and 3.7% a year in women between 1996 and 2010.

## Summary

Published as "Time trends of cancer incidence in Setif, Algeria, 1986-2010: an observational study". The authors used diagnoses from the population-based Cancer Registry of Sétif for 1986 to 2010, by site, morphology, age and sex, with population figures from the Algerian statistics office, and computed age-standardised rates (world population) for five five-year periods and annual percentage changes for 1996 to 2010.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Journal: BMC Cancer
- Year: 2014
- DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-14-637
- Authors: Hamdi Cherif M, Serraino D, Mahnane A, et al.
- Findings: In 2006 to 2010 the age-standardised incidence of all cancers was 106.4 per 100,000 men and 110.3 per 100,000 women.; The leading cancers were lung (18.0%), colorectum (9.6%), bladder (9.1%) and prostate (6.5%) in men, and breast (36.4%), colorectum (8.5%), cervix (6.0%) and thyroid (6.0%) in women.; From 1996 to 2010 overall incidence rose significantly, by 2.5% a year in men and 3.7% in women; breast cancer rose by 8.2% a year and colorectal cancer by 5.4% in men and 4.5% in women, while cervical cancer fell by 4.2% a year.
- What it means: Sétif is one of the two Algerian registries the national cancer plan names as voting members of the International Association of Cancer Registries, and its 25-year series measures how cancer in one Algerian wilaya shifted towards breast, colorectal and lung cancer.
- Caveats: One wilaya; rates elsewhere in Algeria differ.; The series ends in 2010.

## Sources

- BMC Cancer 2014: https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-14-637
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25175348/

## Connected records

- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- institutions: [Réseau national des registres du cancer (Algeria's national network of cancer registries)](https://onco.cc/institutions/algeria-cancer-registry-network/)

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