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Descriptive Epidemiological Study Of Cancer Patients Registered At Mayo Hospital, Lahore

By: Tamseela Naseem | Prof. Dr. Muhammad Athar Khan.
Contributor(s): Dr. Mansur-ud-Din Ahmad.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: 2011Subject(s): Department of Epidemiology & Public HealthDDC classification: 1370,T Dissertation note: The objective of this study were to report the distribution and pattern of various cancers in Mayo hospital of Lahore over a period of last 5 years and to determine the age and gender distribution of the various reported Cancer cases in the above mentioned teaching hospital of Lahore. This research project was planned to study the epidemiology of various types of cancer among population of Pakistan. For the design of study a descriptive study based on passive surveillance system was planned. The data of cancer patients were collected from the Mayo Hospital a Teaching Hospital of Lahore. To meet the objective of this study we took data from Mayo Hospital, based on previous five years (from 2006-2010). Data was entered and analyzed through SPSS version 16 by researcher herself. Quantitative variable like age was presented in form of mean ± SD with respect to type of cancer and year. The qualitative variable like gender, type of cancer etc were presented in form of frequency tables and appropriate charts. Chi square analysis was used to see the association between qualitative attributes. Analysis of variance was used to see the mean age of different types of carcinomas. Independent sample t-test was used to see the mean age in different gender. In this study there were total 12096 cancer patients registered at Mayo hospital Lahore in period of last five years from 2006 to 2010. Out of which, 2305(19.1%), 2182(18.0%), 2293(19.0%), 2315(19.1%) and 3001(24.8%) patients were registered in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, respectively. Out of total 12096 cancer patients, there were 5766(47.87%) males and 6330(52.13%) females. Of the 12096 patients diagnosed with malignant cancers, nearly 11827 (98.5%) belonged to the province of Punjab and approximately 45 (0.4%) to the NWFP, 111 (0.9%) belonged to Azad Jammu Kashmir, 27 (0.2%) belonged to Karachi and 13 (0.1%) belonged to Quetta. There were 2988 patients of breast and female genital carcinomas registered, out of which 592 patients were registered in 2006, 487 patients were registered in 2007, 583 were in 2008, 611 in 2009 and 715 were registered in 2010. Registered patients with carcinoma of digestive organs were 2071 in which there were 374 were in 2006, 385 were in 2007, 374 in 2008,418 in 2009 and 520 in 2010. Lymphoid heamatopietic were 1589 in which 293 were from 2006,322 were from 2007,302 were from 2008, 284 were from 2009 and 388 were from 2010.
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The objective of this study were to report the distribution and pattern of various cancers in Mayo

hospital of Lahore over a period of last 5 years and to determine the age and gender distribution

of the various reported Cancer cases in the above mentioned teaching hospital of Lahore. This

research project was planned to study the epidemiology of various types of cancer among

population of Pakistan. For the design of study a descriptive study based on passive surveillance

system was planned. The data of cancer patients were collected from the Mayo Hospital a

Teaching Hospital of Lahore. To meet the objective of this study we took data from Mayo

Hospital, based on previous five years (from 2006-2010). Data was entered and analyzed through

SPSS version 16 by researcher herself. Quantitative variable like age was presented in form of

mean ± SD with respect to type of cancer and year. The qualitative variable like gender, type of

cancer etc were presented in form of frequency tables and appropriate charts. Chi square analysis

was used to see the association between qualitative attributes. Analysis of variance was used to

see the mean age of different types of carcinomas. Independent sample t-test was used to see the

mean age in different gender. In this study there were total 12096 cancer patients registered at Mayo

hospital Lahore in period of last five years from 2006 to 2010. Out of which, 2305(19.1%),

2182(18.0%), 2293(19.0%), 2315(19.1%) and 3001(24.8%) patients were registered in 2006, 2007,

2008, 2009 and 2010, respectively. Out of total 12096 cancer patients, there were 5766(47.87%)

males and 6330(52.13%) females. Of the 12096 patients diagnosed with malignant cancers, nearly

11827 (98.5%) belonged to the province of Punjab and approximately 45 (0.4%) to the NWFP, 111
(0.9%) belonged to Azad Jammu Kashmir, 27 (0.2%) belonged to Karachi and 13 (0.1%)
belonged to Quetta. There were 2988 patients of breast and female genital carcinomas registered, out of which 592 patients were registered in 2006, 487 patients were registered in 2007, 583 were in 2008, 611 in 2009 and 715 were registered in 2010. Registered patients with carcinoma of digestive organs were 2071 in which there were 374 were in 2006, 385 were in 2007, 374 in 2008,418 in 2009 and 520 in 2010. Lymphoid heamatopietic were 1589 in which 293 were from 2006,322 were from 2007,302 were from 2008, 284 were from 2009 and 388 were from 2010.

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