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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.
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.
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.
Shares Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, National Institutes of Health, Islamabad.
Shares Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Punjab Cancer Registry.
Shares Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Cervical cancer.
Shares Oral cavity cancer (mouth and tongue), Cervical cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma, Breast cancer (all types).
Shares Oral cavity cancer (mouth and tongue), Breast cancer (all types).
Shares Oral cavity cancer (mouth and tongue), Breast cancer (all types).
Shares Oral cavity cancer (mouth and tongue), Breast cancer (all types).
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