A Multifactorial Epidemiological Analysis Of Cancer Patients At A Tertiary Care Hospital In South India

Abstract

Cancer incidence has been increasing throughout world including India in the recent years.the present study is focussed on studying epidemiology of cancer in teritary care hospital,south India. district i n South India . This is retrospective study conducted at Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Hospital , Warangal , Andhra Pradesh, India from June 2010 to June 2011. We analysed the patients admitted during this study period, all possible information regarding age, gender, demographic data , cancer type, site and stage -wise cancer, treatment , follow-up period were gathered and analysed statistically. A total of 236 patients , of mean age 49.45 years (SD: 11.27), including 52.33% male and 47.67% female were admitted during the study period. The most predominant age group was 41 -60 years . Among male, tongue cancer (11.92%) and among female breast cancer were more predominant (17.86%). The sub -types of cancers , histopathological variants , stage wise presentation, treatment administered and follow-up periods were explained in detail .This study explains the proportion of various cancers cases in south Indian population and provides a source of information, which help public health planners , administrators , healthcare system, and general public in the primary prevention and early detection of cancer which helps in detecting the cancer early .