Radwan Hadia, Hasan Hayder, Ballout Rami A, Rizk Rana
Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, College of Health Sciences, Sharjah Institute of Medical Research (SIMR),University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
Faculty of Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut.
Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Dec;97(50):e13618. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000013618.
We conducted a systematic review to explore the United Arab Emirates (UAE)'s cancer-specific epidemiological profiles.
We followed the standardized methods for conducting and reporting systematic reviews. We employed a highly sensitive and extensive strategy to identify all studies on the prevalence and incidence of cancer in the UAE, searching electronic databases and the grey literature. We assessed the methodological quality of the studies, summarized them, and qualitatively analyzed their results.
We included 4 retrospective studies published between 2003 and 2011, reporting data gathered between 1982 and 2004. The majority of the data were collected from national cancer registries and addressed adult Emiratis and certain cancer types. All included studies employed validated procedures for diagnostic confirmation. The overall age-standardized cancer rates were 70.1 and 74.2 per 100,000 in males and females, respectively. Lung, gastric, and prostate cancer ranked as the top 3 types in Emirati males; while breast, cervical, and thyroid cancer were the top 3 types in Emirati females. Men exhibited higher rates of lung and stomach cancers compared with women. The majority of the studies were of acceptable methodological quality.
Our findings highlight the need for high-quality future research and systematic cancer data collection and registration to provide reliable data on the current incidence of cancer. We hope that our findings guide the tailoring of interventions aimed at curbing cancer rates in the UAE.
我们进行了一项系统评价，以探究阿拉伯联合酋长国（阿联酋）特定癌症的流行病学概况。
我们遵循进行和报告系统评价的标准化方法。我们采用了高度敏感且广泛的策略，通过检索电子数据库和灰色文献，来识别所有关于阿联酋癌症患病率和发病率的研究。我们评估了这些研究的方法学质量，对其进行总结，并对结果进行定性分析。
我们纳入了2003年至2011年间发表的4项回顾性研究，这些研究报告了1982年至2004年间收集的数据。大部分数据来自国家癌症登记处，涉及成年阿联酋人和某些癌症类型。所有纳入的研究都采用了经过验证的诊断确认程序。男性和女性的总体年龄标准化癌症发病率分别为每10万人70.1例和74.2例。肺癌、胃癌和前列腺癌是阿联酋男性中排名前三的癌症类型；而乳腺癌、宫颈癌和甲状腺癌是阿联酋女性中排名前三的癌症类型。男性的肺癌和胃癌发病率高于女性。大多数研究的方法学质量是可接受的。
我们的研究结果凸显了未来开展高质量研究以及系统收集和登记癌症数据的必要性，以便提供有关当前癌症发病率的可靠数据。我们希望我们的研究结果能指导制定旨在降低阿联酋癌症发病率的干预措施。
