Journal of Carcinogenesis & Mutagenesis

Abstract

Statistical View of Malignant and Suspected Malignant Tumors in the Surgical Ward of the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital

Willy DT, Guifo ML, Bang A, Ngo Nonga B, Essomba A and Sosso MA

Cancer is a major public health problem in both industrialized and developing countries. One in ten deaths is attributable to cancer worldwide. This situation calls for a development of a cancer registry in hospital and in the general population that can allow a systematic collection, storage, analysis and interpretation of cancer data. The purpose of this work is to highlight an epidemiological profile of malignant tumors and suspected of malignancies at the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital to improve their management.

We conducted a descriptive and retrospective study over a period of five years from 2010 to 2014. We registered 231 hospitalized patients for malignant or suspected malignancies during the study period. The predominance was male with a sex ratio of 1.03. The modal classes were in both sexes 51-60 years followed by 31-40 years. The main tumors encountered were digestive tumors (41.6%), odonto-stomatological tumors (22.1%), gynecological tumors (10%), and ENT (6.9%). Among the digestive tumors in order of frequency, colorectal tumors are the most common (36%), followed by gastric tumors (22%), and tumors of the pancreatic head (19%).

The incidence of malignant tumors increases with time. The need to develop a cancer registry is necessary for epidemiological surveillance to improve their management, and to guide the teaching of tumor pathology in our context.