Abstract
Background: Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Process of invade adjoining parts of the body and spread to other organs is referred to as metastasizing. Metastases are a major cause of death from cancer. Cancer is a second leading cause of death worldwide. Objectives: to determine the prevalence of the oncological and hematological diseases among displaced people in sulaymaniyah province. Methods: A retrospective study was performed on patients with oncological and hematological disease patients which are register in the Hiwa Cancer hospital and chronic disease center in sulaymaniyah province during the period between 1st January 2014 to 10th October 2017.Atotal of 722 patients, 382 females and 340 males constituted the study group. Results: there were (52.91%) females patients and (47.09%) males patients. the prevalence of oncological and hematological disease among displaced people was (2155) per million populations. The prevalence of the various types of cancers disease in this study was; breast (18.69 %), leukemia (11.21%), gastrointestinal (10.24%), urinary tract (7.34%), lymphoma (5.81%), lung (5.40%), gynecological (5.12%), brain (3.73%), nasopharyngeal (3.46%), sarcoma (2.90%), skin (1.66%), thyroid (1.52%) and multiple myeloma (1.11%). While all the benign hematological disorder account for (21.75%). Conclusions: The prevalence of oncological and hematological disease among displaced people in sulaymaniyah province is high. most of displaced people lives outside the camps. Breast cancer and leukemia constituted the top of these diseases. There are a large number of displaced patients from Anbar and Diayala governorate.
Keywords
Cancer, hematological disorder and displaced patients in sulaymaniyah