In Ghana, majority of cancer studies have focused on only two main teaching hospitals. However, there is the need to study the disease burden from other parts of the country. This study was designed to review cancer cases recorded in major hospitals in the Volta Region of Ghana, with the aim of determining the incidence of cancers and cancer-related mortalities, and contribute to cancer data in the country. In-patient diagnosis data from 2012 to 2014 were collected from 21 hospitals in the Volta Region of Ghana. The data were entered and structured in Microsoft Excel and analyzed with IBM SPSS Statistics 20 and GraphPad Prism 6. Cervical, breast, liver, soft tissue, and prostate cancer were identified as the commonly diagnosed cancers in the Region. Socioeconomic factors such as poor educational background and occupation were associated with incidence of cancer in the study area. The incidence of cancer was determined to be approximately 9, 11, and 6 morbidities per 100,000 people in the years 2012, 2013, and 2014, respectively, with liver cancer being the leading cause of deaths. Public awareness and screening efforts are thus needed to fight against cancer in the Volta Region, and Ghana as a whole. In addition, this study is an original report of cancers in the Volta Region of Ghana and underscores the need to report ethnic/population-specific frequencies to effectively evaluate the burden of cancer in the country.

Impact statement

Region-specific cancer reports are essential in knowing the common cancers in specific populations. This study reports all cancer types recorded in the major hospitals in the Volta Region of Ghana, a population that is sparsely captured in the national cancer registries. The study identified the common cancers as well as the death rates in the Volta Region, hence contributing to the national effort to report cancer data. Although not comprising all the elements of a cancer registry, our data will augment the effort of the two national cancer registries in Ghana to provide the national cancer reports.

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加纳沃尔特地区癌症的发病率和死亡率。

在加纳，大多数癌症研究仅集中在两家主要的教学医院。但是，有必要研究该国其他地区的疾病负担。这项研究旨在审查加纳沃尔塔地区主要医院中记录的癌症病例，目的是确定癌症的发生率和与癌症相关的死亡率，并有助于该国的癌症数据。2012年至2014年的住院诊断数据来自加纳沃尔塔地区的21家医院。在Microsoft Excel中输入数据并对其进行结构化，并使用IBM SPSS Statistics 20和GraphPad Prism 6进行分析。宫颈癌，乳腺癌，肝癌，软组织癌和前列腺癌被确定为该地区最常见的癌症。社会经济因素，例如受教育程度低和职业差，与研究区域的癌症发生率有关。在2012年，2013年和2014年，癌症的发病率分别确定为每100,000人中约有9例，11例和6例发病，其中肝癌是导致死亡的主要原因。因此，需要在沃尔特地区乃至整个加纳开展公众意识和筛查工作，以抗击癌症。此外，这项研究是加纳沃尔特地区癌症的原始报告，强调需要报告特定种族/特定人群的频率以有效评估该国的癌症负担。肝癌是导致死亡的主要原因。因此，需要在沃尔特地区乃至整个加纳进行公众认识和筛查工作，以抗击癌症。此外，这项研究是加纳沃尔特地区癌症的原始报告，强调需要报告特定种族/特定人群的频率以有效评估该国的癌症负担。肝癌是导致死亡的主要原因。因此，需要在沃尔特地区乃至整个加纳开展公众意识和筛查工作，以抗击癌症。此外，这项研究是加纳沃尔特地区癌症的原始报告，强调需要报告特定种族/特定人群的频率以有效评估该国的癌症负担。

影响陈述

特定地区的癌症报告对于了解特定人群中的常见癌症至关重要。这项研究报告了加纳沃尔塔地区主要医院中记录的所有癌症类型，该国人口很少被国家癌症登记机构捕获。该研究确定了沃尔塔地区的常见癌症以及死亡率，因此有助于国家报告癌症数据。尽管不包括癌症注册中心的所有要素，但我们的数据将增加加纳的两个国家癌症注册中心提供国家癌症报告的工作。