Afework Tsion, Seid Birtukan, Anteneh Aderaw, Ayele Wondimu, Gebreyesus Seifu Hagos, Endris Bilal Shikur
School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa 1000, Ethiopia.
Pastoralist Concern, Addis Ababa 1000, Ethiopia.
Ecancermedicalscience. 2022 Jul 14;16:1428. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2022.1428. eCollection 2022.
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death; worldwide, there were 10.0 million cancer deaths in 2020. In Ethiopia, 51,865 people died from the disease in the same year. We aimed to describe the burden of cancer mortality, the socio-demographic and other characteristics of deceased adults in Addis Ababa from 2007 to 2017.
This study was part of the Addis Ababa Mortality Surveillance Programme. Based on the burial-based surveillance, there were 133,170 adult deaths from 2007 to 2017. The standard verbal autopsy questionnaire was applied to collect information on the causes of death of 10% of the randomly selected deaths.
Cancer accounted for 11% of all deaths studied. The median age of death in years was 60 (range = 47-70). Stomach cancer was the leading cause of cancer death (131, 13.6%), followed by breast cancer (116, 12.0%) and liver cancer (101, 10.5%).
Cancer-related deaths accounted for a significant portion of all deaths. Premature deaths accounted for majority of the deaths. Cancer deaths were most commonly caused by stomach, breast and liver cancers. Advocating for a healthy lifestyle, effective cancer screening and effective alcohol-control regulations should be tailored to the country.
癌症是主要死因之一；2020年，全球有1000万例癌症死亡病例。同年在埃塞俄比亚，有51865人死于该疾病。我们旨在描述2007年至2017年亚的斯亚贝巴癌症死亡负担、已故成年人的社会人口学特征及其他特征。
本研究是亚的斯亚贝巴死亡率监测项目的一部分。基于以埋葬为基础的监测，2007年至2017年有133170例成年人死亡。应用标准的口头尸检问卷收集随机抽取的10%死亡病例的死亡原因信息。
癌症占所有研究死亡病例的11%。死亡年龄中位数为60岁（范围=47 - 70岁）。胃癌是癌症死亡的主要原因（131例，占13.6%），其次是乳腺癌（116例，占12.0%）和肝癌（101例，占10.5%）。
癌症相关死亡占所有死亡病例的很大一部分。过早死亡占死亡病例的大多数。癌症死亡最常见的原因是胃癌、乳腺癌和肝癌。应根据该国情况倡导健康的生活方式、有效的癌症筛查和有效的酒精控制法规。
