Jamal Shahid, Mamoon Nadira, Mushtaq Sajid, Luqman Muhammad
Army Medical College, Adiala Road, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Asian Pac J Cancer Prev. 2006 Jul-Sep;7(3):420-2.
To determine the pattern of childhood cancer in northern Pakistan.
A descriptive study.
January 1992 to December 2001 at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
All histologically diagnosed malignant childhood tumours registered with the tumour registry of our institute were retrieved from the case files. Basic epidemiological data regarding each case were collected from the request forms and analysed for the site of involvement, age distribution and histological types of tumour.
During the ten year study period a total of 922 childhood malignancies, constituting 4.3% of all malignant tumours, were seen. Haematological malignancies (lymphomas and leukaemias) were the commonest, accounting for 50.4% in males and 37.7% in females. The haematological malignancies were followed by tumours of bone (6.3%), CNS (6.3%), and eye (4.84%) in males and soft tissue tumours as 5th common in females. Skin, renal and colorectal tumours were also in the ten commonest in both sexes and so were ovarian tumours in females.
Lymphomas and leukaemias are the main bulk of childhood cancer. Malignant tumours were twice more common in males than females in this series.
确定巴基斯坦北部儿童癌症的模式。
一项描述性研究。
1992年1月至2001年12月于巴基斯坦拉瓦尔品第的武装部队病理研究所。
从病例档案中检索出所有在本研究所肿瘤登记处登记的经组织学诊断的儿童恶性肿瘤。从申请表中收集每个病例的基本流行病学数据，并对肿瘤的受累部位、年龄分布和组织学类型进行分析。
在十年研究期间，共发现922例儿童恶性肿瘤，占所有恶性肿瘤的4.3%。血液系统恶性肿瘤（淋巴瘤和白血病）最为常见，男性占50.4%，女性占37.7%。男性中，血液系统恶性肿瘤之后依次是骨肿瘤（6.3%）、中枢神经系统肿瘤（6.3%）和眼肿瘤（4.84%），女性中软组织肿瘤排第五位。皮肤、肾脏和结肠直肠肿瘤在男女中均位列十大常见肿瘤，女性中的卵巢肿瘤也是如此。
淋巴瘤和白血病是儿童癌症的主要类型。在本系列研究中，恶性肿瘤在男性中的发病率是女性的两倍。
