Patterns of Benign and Malignant Lesions of the Thyroid in Two Wilayahs of Northeastern Algeria

Table 2

Estimates of crude incidence rates of cancers of the thyroid in different Wilayahs of Algeria.

Wilayahs	Period	Crude rates, per 100,000 person-years		Data source
		Men	Women
Guelma	2008–2012	3.31	21.14	Hospital-based data, this study
El-Taref	2008–2012	1.2	5.39	Hospital-based data, this study
Algiers	1993–1997	0.9	3.5	CIV-8
	2003	1.7	7.7	Population-based cancer registry
	2006	1.2	8
	2007	1.8	6.3
Setif	1986–1989	0.2	0.8	CIV-6 [13]
	1990–1993	0.1	0.4	CIV-7 [14]
	1998–2002	0.9	2.6	CIV-9
	2006	0.8	4.0	Population-based cancer registry
	2010	1.5	6.0	Population-based cancer registry
Annaba	2003–2009	1	3.1	Population-based cancer registry

(a): see Figure 1 for localization of data sources.
(b): cancer incidence in five Continents, IARC, (http://ci5.iarc.fr/) [15].
(c): Registres des Tumeurs d’Algers, 2003, 2006, and 2007 [16–18].
(d): cancer registry of Setif; for age-standardized incidence rates (world standard) see [19].
(e): Rapport du Registre des Cancers d’Annaba, 2003–2009, unpublished (personal communication, Dr Bouzbid).