The epidemiology of haematological cancers in Sarawak, Malaysia (1996 to 2015)

• Main Authors: Kuan, Jew Win, Anselm, Su Ting, Mastulu, Wahab, Abdullah, Hamdan, Jamilah, Hashim, Andrew, Kiyu, Ooi, Choo Huck
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central Ltd 2023
• Subjects: RC Internal medicine; RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer); RZ Other systems of medicine
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42003/3/The%20epidemiol.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/42003/; https://bmccancer.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12885-023-10988-y#:~:text=Overall%20haematological%20cancers%20%E2%80%93%20incidence%20and%20CR&text=CR%20of%20haematological%20cancers%20in,time%20higher%20than%20a%20female.; https://doi.org/10.1186/s12885-023-10988-y

Background Published epidemiological studies of haematological cancers are few. Hereby we present a 20-year epidemiological data of haematological cancers in Sarawak from a population-based cancer registry. Methods Haematological cancer cases with ICD-10 coded C81-C96 and ICD-O coded /3 diagnosed...