{"entity":{"id":"paper-gizaw-addis-ababa-incidence-2018-2022-canep-2026","kind":"paper","name":"Cancer incidence in Addis Ababa, 2018 to 2022, from Ethiopia's only population-based registry","aka":[],"tldr":"The Addis Ababa registry recorded 14,053 new cancers over 2018 to 2022, two thirds of them in women; breast and cervical cancer led in women and colorectal and prostate cancer in men.","summary":"Published as \"Cancer incidence in Addis Ababa, 2018-2022: The only population based cancer registry in Ethiopia\". The authors analysed cancers diagnosed between 2018 and 2022 in the population covered by the Addis Ababa population-based cancer registry, about 3.7 million people in 2020 and about 3% of Ethiopia's population, and compared age-standardised rates with estimates for East Africa, West Africa, the Black population of the United States and the world.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"Cancer Epidemiol 2026","url":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2026.103048"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41814110/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer","cervical","colorectal"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["addis-ababa-city-cancer-registry","tikur-anbessa-hospital"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"Cancer Epidemiology","year":2026,"doi":"10.1016/j.canep.2026.103048","pmid":"41814110","authors":"Gizaw M, Parkin DM, Asmare S, et al.","paperType":"observational","findings":["14,053 cancers were recorded: 4,584 in men (age-standardised rate 66.5 per 100,000) and 9,469 in women (113.5 per 100,000).","In men the commonest were colorectal cancer (14.3% of male cancers, 9.8 per 100,000), prostate cancer (12.9%, 11.8) and mouth and pharynx cancer (6.6%, 3.9).","In women the commonest were breast cancer (38.8%, 39.8 per 100,000), cervical cancer (14.3%, 18.9) and colorectal cancer (7.2%, 8.9)."],"whatItMeans":"These are the latest rates from Ethiopia's only population-based registry, and IARC applies the registry's rates to the whole country; they show breast and cervical cancer dominating in women and a relatively high rate of colorectal cancer.","caveats":["One city, about 3% of the population; rural Ethiopia may differ.","The authors read the low prostate and liver cancer rates as possible under-diagnosis or under-reporting."],"participants":14053},"route":"/key-papers/paper-gizaw-addis-ababa-incidence-2018-2022-canep-2026/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"id":"cervical","kind":"cancer","name":"Cervical cancer","route":"/cancers/cervical/"},{"id":"colorectal","kind":"cancer","name":"Colorectal cancer","route":"/cancers/colorectal/"}],"institution":[{"id":"addis-ababa-city-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Addis Ababa City Cancer Registry","route":"/institutions/addis-ababa-city-cancer-registry/"},{"id":"tikur-anbessa-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Tikur Anbessa Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa University","route":"/institutions/tikur-anbessa-hospital/"}]}}