Characteristics of gastric cancer in Asia

Table 1 Gastric cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence in the world as reported in GLOBOCAN 2008[3]

	Total incidence	Incidence rate	Total mortality	Mortality rate	5-yr prevalence	Prevalence
	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)
World	988	14.0	737	10.3	1598	5.5%
Asia	727	18.5	530	13.4	1216	10.4%
Europe	145	10.3	116	7.9	201	2.4%
Northern America	24	4.2	12	2.1	37	0.8%
Africa	22	4.0	21	3.8	30	2.1%

Table 2 Male gastric cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence in the world as reported in GLOBOCAN 2008[3]

	Total incidence	Incidence rate	Total mortality	Mortality rate	5-yr prevalence	Prevalence
	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)
World	640	19.7	463	14.2	1050	7.8%
Asia	484	25.9	342	18.3	819	15.7%
Europe	86	14.5	68	11.3	121	2.9%
Northern America	15	5.8	7	2.8	23	1.0%
Africa	12	4.7	11	4.5	16	3.0%

Table 3 Female gastric cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence in the world as reported in GLOBOCAN 2008[3]

	Total incidence	Incidence rate	Total mortality	Mortality rate	5-yr prevalence	Prevalence
	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)
World	348	9.1	273	6.9	548	3.6%
Asia	243	11.7	188	8.9	396	6.2%
Europe	59	7.0	47	5.3	79	1.9%
Northern America	9	2.8	5	1.5	13	0.6%
Africa	10	3.3	9	3.2	13	1.5%

Table 4 Gastric cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence in Asia as reported in GLOBOCAN 2008[3]

	Total incidence	Incidence rate	Total mortality	Mortality rate	5-yr prevalence	Prevalence
	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)
Eastern Asia	601	30.2	418	20.3	1071	15.2%
South-Eastern Asia	43	8.6	35	7.1	56	3.9%
South-Central Asia	68	4.8	63	6.5	68	2.6%
Western Asia	14	9.4	13	8.3	19	4.2%

Table 5 Male gastric cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence in Asia as reported in GLOBOCAN 2008[3]

	Total incidence	Incidence rate	Total mortality	Mortality rate	5-yr prevalence	Prevalence
	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)
Eastern Asia	408	42.4	274	28.1	732	21.0%
South-Eastern Asia	24	10.9	20	8.9	32	6.2%
South-Central Asia	42	6.7	39	6.3	42	4.3%
Western Asia	9	12.6	8	11.2	12	5.8%

Table 6 Female gastric cancer incidence, mortality and prevalence in Asia as reported in GLOBOCAN 2008[3]

	Total incidence	Incidence rate	Total mortality	Mortality rate	5-yr prevalence	Prevalence
	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)	per 100000	(in 1000s)
Eastern Asia	193	18.3	144	13.0	338	9.5%
South-Eastern Asia	18	6.7	15	5.6	23	2.6%
South-Central Asia	26	3.9	23	3.6	26	1.6%
Western Asia	5	6.7	4	5.9	7	3.0%

Table 7 Incidence, mortality and prevalence of gastric cancer in selected countries in Asia as reported in GLOBOCAN 2008[3]

Country	Incidence rate per 100000	Mortality rate per 100000	Prevalence
China	29.9	22.3	5.6%
Japan	31.1	13.5	18.1%
South Korea	12.1	9.8	7.0%
Indonesia	9.4	8.8	4.8%
Malaysia	8.4	7.4	3.3%
Thailand	3.5	2.5	1.5%
India	3.8	3.6	1.5%
Bangladesh	5.2	5.0	2.8%
Pakistan	6.3	5.9	3.0%
Iran	15.6	14.1	8.8%
Iraq	3.6	3.5	1.9%
Jordan	4.8	4.5	2.2%
Saudi Arabia	3.3	3.0	2.0%
Israel	8.6	4.7	2.4%