Changes in Uterine Cancer Incidence Rates in Egypt

Table 1

Demographic and clinical characteristics of 660 uterine cancer patients in the Gharbiah province between 1999 and 2010.

Variables	Frequency	Percent	95% CI
			LL	UL
Menopausal status
Premenopause	115	17.4	14.5	20.3
Postmenopause	545	82.6	79.7	85.5
Residential status
Urban	355	53.8	50.0	57.6
Rural	305	46.2	42.4	50.0
Periods
1999–2002	154	23.3	20.1	26.6
2003–2006	227	34.4	30.8	38.0
2007–2010	279	42.3	38.5	46.1
Age groups
<40	23	5.0	3.3	6.7
40–49	82	12.4	9.9	14.9
50–59	237	35.9	32.2	39.6
60–69	217	32.9	29.3	36.5
≥70	91	13.8	11.2	16.4
Parity^(n=351)
Nulliparous	171	48.7	43.5	54.0
Low parity	21	6.0	3.5	8.5
High parity	159	45.3	40.1	50.5
Employment^(n=418)
Employed	48	11.5	8.4	14.6
Housewife	370	88.5	85.4	91.6
Basis of diagnosis
Death certificate only	30	4.5	3.0	6.1
Histology of primary	614	93.0	91.1	95.0
Cancer topography
Others	16	2.4	1.2	3.6
Corpus uteri cancer	599	90.9	88.7	93.1
NOS cancer	60	9.1	6.9	11.3
Tumor grades
Well differentiated	94	14.2	11.6	16.9
Moderately differentiated	300	45.5	41.6	49.3
Poorly differentiated and anaplastic	110	16.7	13.8	19.5
Unspecified	156	23.6	20.4	26.9
Tumor stage^(n=560)
Localized	334	59.6	55.6	63.7
Regional	19	3.4	1.9	4.9
Distant	72	12.9	10.1	15.6
Unstaged	135	24.1	20.6	27.7
Cancer Histology^(n=656)
Adenocarcinoma	447	68.1	64.6	71.7
Other carcinoma	78	11.9	9.4	14.4
Sarcoma	72	11.0	8.6	13.4
Other unspecified malignant neoplasm	59	9.0	6.8	11.2
Treatment^(n=516)
No treatment given	120	23.3	19.6	26.9
Surgery alone	246	47.7	43.4	52.0
Surgery + adjuvant RT	98	19.0	15.6	22.4
Surgery + adjuvant RT and or adjuvant CT	52	10.1	7.5	12.7