{"entity":{"id":"paper-national-cancer-registry-pakistan-jcpsp-2023","kind":"paper","name":"National Cancer Registry of Pakistan: First Comprehensive Report of Cancer Statistics 2015-2019","aka":[],"tldr":"The first attempt to pool Pakistan's separate cancer registries into one national picture: 269,707 cancers from 2015 to 2019, with breast cancer the commonest overall and oral cancer the commonest in men.","summary":"Data from six registries, the Punjab Cancer Registry, the Karachi Cancer Registry, the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission cancer registry, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology registry, Nishtar Medical University Hospital Multan and Shifa International Hospital Islamabad, were pooled, cleaned and analysed at the Health Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health, Islamabad, for 2015 to 2019. 269,707 cancer cases were analysed: 45.13% from Punjab, 26.83% from Sindh, 16.46% from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 3.52% from Balochistan.","asOf":"2026-11-04","links":[{"label":"J Coll Physicians Surg Pak 2023","url":"https://doi.org/10.29271/jcpsp.2023.06.625"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37300256/"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":["breast-cancer","oral-cavity-cancer","hcc","colorectal","cervical"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["nih-pakistan","punjab-cancer-registry","paec-cancer-hospitals","aku-karachi"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"journal":"Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan","year":2023,"doi":"10.29271/jcpsp.2023.06.625","pmid":"37300256","authors":"Ikram A, Pervez S, Khadim MT, et al.","paperType":"observational","findings":["Breast cancer was the commonest cancer in both sexes combined: 57,633 cases (21.4%).","In men the five commonest were oral (14,477; 11.6%), liver (8,398; 6.73%), colorectal (8,024; 6.43%), lung (7,547; 6.05%) and prostate (7,322; 5.87%).","In women the five commonest were breast (56,250; 38.8%), ovary (8,823; 6.09%), oral (7,195; 4.97%), cervix (6,043; 4.17%) and colorectal (4,860; 3.36%).","Leukaemia was the commonest cancer in children (1,626; 14.50%) and bone cancer in adolescents (880; 14%)."],"whatItMeans":"It is the nearest thing Pakistan has to a national cancer count, and its authors point out that most of the commonest cancers are largely preventable: oral cancer correlates with chewing habits, and liver, lung and cervical cancer with hepatitis B and C, smoking and high-risk human papillomavirus. It counts registered cases, not population incidence.","caveats":["Pooled counts from registries of very different kinds, most of them hospital-based, so the shares describe who reached a registering centre rather than rates in the population.","No population denominator or age-standardised rate is reported for the country as a whole."],"participants":269707},"route":"/key-papers/paper-national-cancer-registry-pakistan-jcpsp-2023/","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/"},{"id":"hcc","kind":"cancer","name":"Hepatocellular carcinoma","route":"/cancers/hcc/"},{"id":"oral-cavity-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Oral cavity cancer (mouth and tongue)","route":"/cancers/oral-cavity-cancer/"}],"institution":[{"id":"aku-karachi","kind":"institution","name":"Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi","route":"/institutions/aku-karachi/"},{"id":"paec-cancer-hospitals","kind":"institution","name":"Atomic Energy Cancer Hospitals (Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission)","route":"/institutions/paec-cancer-hospitals/"},{"id":"nih-pakistan","kind":"institution","name":"National Institutes of Health, Islamabad","route":"/institutions/nih-pakistan/"},{"id":"punjab-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Punjab Cancer Registry","route":"/institutions/punjab-cancer-registry/"}]}}