Hue Central Hospital is the place where the population-based cancer registry was carried out in Thua thien Hue Province. The purpose of this research was to determine the cancer incidence in the community, to contribute to the assessment of cancer burden in the whole country and to analyse the epidemiology characters of some popular cancers in this area. | JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, Hue University, N0 61, 2010 CANCER INCIDENCE IN THE POPULATION OF THUATHIEN HUE PROVINCE, VIETNAM, 2001-2009 Nguyen Dinh Tung Oncology Department of Hue Central Hospital Lecturer of Hue College of Medicine & Pharmacy SUMMARY Hue Central Hospital is the place where the population-based cancer registry was carried out in Thua thien Hue Province. The purpose of this research was to determine the cancer incidence in the community, to contribute to the assessment of cancer burden in the whole country and to analyse the epidemiology characters of some popular cancers in this area. The active registering procedure has been performed, the data were collected from 14 hospitals and disposed of according to the international classification for oncology (ICD-O3). The data was stored in the CANREG software version 4 and was analyzed using EPI-INFO . It was estimated that 7,324 new cancer cases were registered in the period 2001-2009, which included and males and females respectively. The highest rate of cancer diseases belonged to Hue city (). There was of cancer cases diagnosed by cytology or pathology. The crude rate (CR) was , the age -standardized rate (ASR) was per100,000 inhabitants; those in males and females were and respectively. The cancers of liver, stomach, lung, oral cavity and non-Hodgkin lymphoma were the leading ones in males. Of these, the liver cancer rate is the highest (ARS ).The leading cancers in females were breast, stomach, lung, liver and oral cavity; and the breast cancer rate is the highest (ARS ). Cancer diseases have increased among inhabitants after the age of 40 years old in Thua thien Hue. These increased more rapidly in males than in females and the age-specific rate was highest among the group of 70-75 years old. Key words: cancer incidence, Thua Thien Hue 1. Introduction Vietnam is the second most populous country in South East Asia with 85 million people, and, it
