A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries

Cancer is typically classified as a leading non-communicable disease; however, infectious agents, such as Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human papilloma virus (HPV), contribute significantly to the pathogenesis of various cancers. Less developed...

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Main Authors:	Hussein, Wafaa Mohamed, Anwar, Wagida A., Attaleb, Mohammed, Mazini, Loubna, Försti, Asta, Trimbitas, Roxana-Delia, Khyatti, Meriem
Format:	Online
Language:	English
Published:	BioMed Central 2016
Online Access:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4979152/

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spelling	pubmed-49791522016-08-11 A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries Hussein, Wafaa Mohamed Anwar, Wagida A. Attaleb, Mohammed Mazini, Loubna Försti, Asta Trimbitas, Roxana-Delia Khyatti, Meriem Review Cancer is typically classified as a leading non-communicable disease; however, infectious agents, such as Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human papilloma virus (HPV), contribute significantly to the pathogenesis of various cancers. Less developed countries, including countries of the North African (NA) region, endure the highest burden of infection-related cancers. The five most common infection-associated cancers in NA in order of incidence are bladder cancer, cervical cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. This review aims to outline the epidemiologic pattern of infection-associated cancers in five NA countries (namely: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt) highlighting the similarities and differences across the region. The present study employed an initial literature review of peer-reviewed articles selected from PubMed, ScienceDirect and World Health Organization (WHO) databases based on key word searches without restriction on publication dates. Original research articles and reports written in French, as well as data from institutional reports and regional meeting abstracts were also included in this extensive review. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco were selected to be the focus of this review. BioMed Central 2016-08-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4979152/ /pubmed/27512409 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13027-016-0083-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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author	Hussein, Wafaa Mohamed Anwar, Wagida A. Attaleb, Mohammed Mazini, Loubna Försti, Asta Trimbitas, Roxana-Delia Khyatti, Meriem
spellingShingle	Hussein, Wafaa Mohamed Anwar, Wagida A. Attaleb, Mohammed Mazini, Loubna Försti, Asta Trimbitas, Roxana-Delia Khyatti, Meriem A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries
author_facet	Hussein, Wafaa Mohamed Anwar, Wagida A. Attaleb, Mohammed Mazini, Loubna Försti, Asta Trimbitas, Roxana-Delia Khyatti, Meriem
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title	A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries
title_short	A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries
title_full	A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries
title_fullStr	A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries
title_full_unstemmed	A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries
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description	Cancer is typically classified as a leading non-communicable disease; however, infectious agents, such as Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human papilloma virus (HPV), contribute significantly to the pathogenesis of various cancers. Less developed countries, including countries of the North African (NA) region, endure the highest burden of infection-related cancers. The five most common infection-associated cancers in NA in order of incidence are bladder cancer, cervical cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer, and nasopharyngeal carcinoma. This review aims to outline the epidemiologic pattern of infection-associated cancers in five NA countries (namely: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt) highlighting the similarities and differences across the region. The present study employed an initial literature review of peer-reviewed articles selected from PubMed, ScienceDirect and World Health Organization (WHO) databases based on key word searches without restriction on publication dates. Original research articles and reports written in French, as well as data from institutional reports and regional meeting abstracts were also included in this extensive review. Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco were selected to be the focus of this review.
publisher	BioMed Central
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A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries

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