{"entity":{"id":"paper-memirie-ethiopia-cancer-incidence-2015-jgo-2018","kind":"paper","name":"Estimates of cancer incidence in Ethiopia in 2015 using population-based registry data","aka":[],"tldr":"Using the Addis Ababa registry and cases from six regions, the authors estimated about 21,600 new cancers in men and 42,700 in women in Ethiopia in 2015, with breast cancer by far the commonest.","summary":"The authors combined primary data on 8,539 patients from the Addis Ababa population-based cancer registry with 1,648 cancer cases collected from six Ethiopian regions to estimate the number of common cancers diagnosed in Ethiopia in 2015, with crude and age-standardised rates.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"J Glob Oncol 2018","url":"https://doi.org/10.1200/JGO.17.00175"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30241262/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer","colorectal"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["addis-ababa-city-cancer-registry"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"Journal of Global Oncology","year":2018,"doi":"10.1200/JGO.17.00175","pmid":"30241262","authors":"Memirie ST, Habtemariam MK, Asefa M, et al.","paperType":"observational","findings":["An estimated 21,563 (95% CI 17,416 to 25,660) new cancers in men and 42,722 (37,412 to 48,040) in women in 2015.","Breast cancer made up 33% of cancers in women and 23% of all cancers in the Addis Ababa registry, and was the commonest cancer in four of the six regions studied.","Colorectal cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma were the commonest cancers in men; leukaemia was the leading diagnosis in children aged 0 to 14."],"whatItMeans":"An early national estimate built from Ethiopian data rather than regional models, which the Ministry of Health's cancer plan cites.","caveats":["The regional cases were not from population-based registries, so national figures rest mainly on Addis Ababa rates."],"participants":10187},"route":"/key-papers/paper-memirie-ethiopia-cancer-incidence-2015-jgo-2018/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"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/"}]}}