The burden of cancer in Vietnam of the year 2000
- Author:
Anh Thi Hoang Pham
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
cancer
- MeSH:
neoplasms;
Epidemiology
- From:Journal of Medical and Pharmaceutical Information
1999;(9):19-26
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
It is estimated that there were 36,024 new cancer cases in male and 32,786 cases in females had been diagnosed in the country in this year. The cancers of lung, stomach and liver are the most common cancers in male. The cancers of breast, cervical uterus and stomach are the most common cancers in female. The cancer pattern in the country, though, is not homogeneously distributed. It is likely that the cancers of liver and cervix uteri are more common in the South than in the North while cancer of stomach and nasopharynx is more common in the North than in the South.
