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Table 1 Numbers of cancers and percentages by year of diagnosis and sex in all local government areas of Edo-Benin

From: Improving cancer incidence evaluation through local government area matching: a study of the Edo-Benin cancer registry in Nigeria

Year of diagnosis

Male N (%)

Female N (%)

Total N (%)

2009

341 (12)

228 (11)

569 (11.5)

2010

464 (16)

319 (16)

783 (15.8)

2011

203 (7.0)

153 (7.5)

356 (7.2) *

2012

99 (3.4)

66 (3.2)

165 (3.3) *

2013

197 (6.8)

153 (7.5)

350 (7.1) *

2014

223 (7.7)

157 (7.7)

380 (7.7) *

2015

224 (7.7)

128 (6.3)

352 (7.1) *

2016

463 (15.9)

265 (13)

728 (14.7)

2017

339 (12)

267 (13)

606 (12.3)

2018

356 (12)

296 (15)

652 (13.3)

Total

2909 (58.9)

2032 (41.1)

4941 (100.0)

  1. * Significantly lower (p < 0.05) annual numbers of cancers compared to average number of cancers in 2009 and 2010 with Poisson regression of the annual expected number of cancers