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. 2020 May 15;126(10):2206-2216.
doi: 10.1002/cncr.32793. Epub 2020 Feb 26.

Continued increasing incidence of malignant appendiceal tumors in Canada and the United States: A population-based study

Harminder Singh  1   2   3 , Ananda S Koomson  1 , Kathleen M Decker  2   3   4 , Jason Park  5 , Alain A Demers  3   6
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Continued increasing incidence of malignant appendiceal tumors in Canada and the United States: A population-based study

Harminder Singh et al. Cancer. .
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Abstract

Background: To the authors' knowledge, there are limited data regarding the epidemiology of malignant appendiceal tumors. It remains unknown whether the previously reported trends are occurring in different countries and/or continuing in recent years and/or whether they are possibly due to increasing rates of appendectomies. In the current study, the authors investigated the patterns and time trends of malignant appendiceal tumor diagnosis by age group, sex, stage of disease, and histology in Canada and the United States and concomitant rates of appendectomies in Canada.

Methods: The Canadian Cancer Registry and the US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results incidence databases were used to identify incident patients of malignant appendiceal tumors in the 2 countries between 1992 and 2016. The Canadian national hospitals Discharge Abstract Database was used to identify appendectomies performed between 2004 and 2015. Joinpoint regression analyses were performed to determine time trends.

Results: There was an overall increase in the incidence of malignant appendiceal tumors of 232% in the United States and 292% in Canada between 2000 and 2016. The increase was noted for malignant adenocarcinomas and neuroendocrine appendiceal tumors in both countries. The increase occurred across all age groups, sexes, and stages of disease. The highest rate of increase was noted for appendiceal neuroendocrine malignant tumors diagnosed among the youngest age groups. The rate of appendectomies was stable in the recent time periods, resulting in a decreasing rate of appendectomies per malignant appendiceal tumor diagnosis.

Conclusions: The incidence of malignant appendiceal tumor is continuing to increase, which is not likely due to the increasing diagnosis of asymptomatic tumors at the time of appendectomies.

Keywords: appendectomy; appendix cancers; epidemiology; incidence; time trends.

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