Table 1.
CRs and ASRs for gastrointestinal cancers in men and women in Iran, 2001-2010
| Cancer site | Men |
Women |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 |
2010 |
2001 |
2010 |
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| No. of cases | CR | ASR | No. of cases | CR | ASR | APC | No. of cases | CR | ASR | No. of cases | CR | ASR | APC | |
| Stomach | 1,105 | 3.3 | 4.18 | 5,192 | 13.2 | 17.06 | 16.7* | 484 | 1.5 | 2.41 | 2,238 | 6.5 | 8.85 | 16.2* |
| Colorectal | 379 | 1.3 | 2.12 | 3,443 | 8.8 | 11.28 | 20.0* | 344 | 1.2 | 2.00 | 2,641 | 7.7 | 10.33 | 20.0* |
| Esophageal | 858 | 2.5 | 3.25 | 1,693 | 4.3 | 5.57 | 12.0* | 405 | 1.3 | 2.10 | 1,378 | 4.0 | 5.62 | 11.2* |
CR, crude rates (per 100,000); ASR, age-standardized incidence rates (per 100,000); APC, annual percent change of ASRs.
*
p<0.05.