The incidence of stomach and esophageal cancer in Mongolia: a data from 2009-2018 / Монголын Анагаах Ухаан

ABSTRACT

Introduction@#Cancer is a major public health issue both in Asia and in Mongolia. The most prevalent cancer related deaths in Mongolia are registered for the stomach, esophagus and liver. @*Purpose@#We aimed to investigate the incidence of stomach and esophageal cancer in Mongolian population. @*Materials and Methods@#Epidemiologic data were collected from 2009 to 2018 through the oncology cabinet of all hospitals and medical centers from all provinces, soums (the smallest unit of provinces) and major districts of the capital city. The incidence of stomach and esophageal cancer was calculated by appropriate methods and it was presented by ArcGIS Pro 9.2 software. A P-value of less than 0.05 was considered to be statistically significant and based on two side hypotheses. All calculations were performed in the IBM SPSS Statistics software. The study design in concordance with ethical guidelines was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ministry of Health Mongolia. All clinical investigations were conducted according to the principles laid down in the Declaration of Helsinki.@*Results@#The incidence of esophageal cancer in last ten years (2009-2018) was 10.09 in 100000 populations and the highest incidence were registered in Uvs (38.13), Bayan-Ulgii (24.15) and Zavkhan (18.18) provinces, respectively. The incidence of stomach cancer was 20.33 in 100000 populations and the highest incidences were registered in Uvs (53.01), Khovd (46.02) and Darkhan-Uul (40.50) provinces, respectively. @*Conclusion@#</br> 1. Incidence rates for esophageal and stomach cancer are high among the Mongolian population. In the last decade, the incidence of esophageal cancer had not decreased significantly, but it’s constant. </br> In our study, the esophageal cancer incidence was 10.09 per 100’000 people, which includes one of the high incidence rate countries according to the WHO classification. More than 10 aimags incidence rate of esophageal cancer was higher than the National average. Most of them have occurred in the western region of the country. Most of the Western, some of Khangai and Eastern soums have had the highest incidence of esophageal cancer what we have shown on the mapping. </br> 2. The incidence rates of stomach cancer were registered as 20.33 per 100’000 people in the last 10 years at the national level. It has shown that according to the WHO classification, our country is also one of the countries with the highest incidence of stomach cancer. The stomach cancer incidence trend was increased in the last 10 decades. Therefore, some of aimag’s soums has included the highest rate classification. In addition, some soums in the Western, Khangai, and Eastern aimags had have a very high incidence of stomach cancer. </br> According to results in the above, the nationwide targeted prevention program is needed especially where the highest incidence rates. Also there is a lack of cooperation between national organizations to accurate registration of gastrointestinal cancer and to fight against these harmful cancers.