For the purpose of reaching and trying to control the causes of cancer, Data information about ( sex, age, location, type of cancer, year) was collected for 2892 patients and for five consecutive years from the health department of Dhi Qar and from the districts of (AL-Nasiriyah, Suq al-Shuyukh, AL- Shatrah, AL- Rifai, and AL-Chabaish ). The result was that the highest incidences of cancer (24.1%) in 2011 and the lowest rate of cancer (15.6%) in 2010, and the following cancers were the most common: lung, bladder, larynx, central nervous system, liver, lymphatic, ovary, stomach, breast, prostate, blood, pancreas, uterus, kidney, colon, rectum, skin, thyroid, soft tissue and cancers in other sites of the body. But, lung cancer is the most common, which was highest in 21.1% in 2014. The age group (greater than 75 years) was the most vulnerable to cancer (33.7%) in 2010 and (10-14 years) group was the least vulnerable to cancer and reached the highest rate (1.4%) in 2014.Nasiriyah included the highest number of cancer cases and the highest rate of cases (55.9%) in 2010. Numbers of males suffering from cancer were greater than numbers of females suffering from cancer and the highest rate was 57% for males in 2011.
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Al-Mozan, H. D., Mousa, H. M., & Al-Badry, B. J. (2019). Prevalence of cancer disease in Thi-Qar Provence. In Journal of Physics: Conference Series (Vol. 1294). Institute of Physics Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1294/6/062039