Evaluation of the Follow up and Incidence for Abdominal Cancer Patients Using CT (RICK -2008)

Abstract

The assessment of abdominal tumors radiotherapy has been carried out using CT image, to evaluate whether there are residual cancer foci after radiation therapy i.e. recurrence after radiation therapy. The targeted abdominal organs in this study are the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, Liver, spleen, kidney, Pancreas and gall bladder. The collected data about the cancer patients in 2008 were the age, gender, organ involved, tribe, geographical region and the recurrence cases percent. The collected data were analyzed using EXCELL soft ware after a CT image was performed for the (100) patients during the first follow up appointment which was after 1 month of treatment. The analysis of the data shows that: the abdominal organs tumor is predominated among male relative to female with 51% among male and 49% respectively. rd Also the analysis shows that: the abdominal cancer incidence could occur in the 3 . decades and predominated among elderly people from 40 up to 66 years old. And the correlation between the cancer incidence and the patient Ages reveal that: the cancer incidence has a direct proportional with the ageing i.e. as the age increase the cancer incidence increases with the following equation: y 0.19 x  .6 where y refers to the 4 incidence and x refers to age. iv The study also shows that: the predominant abdominal cancer incidence was among Arab Aljazeera Medani (23%) (Arab descendant), Foor (11%) (African descendant) and Jaaleiya (11% )Bani-Amir (8%), Bagara (7%), Hadandawa (5%) and Danagla (4%.} While the common susceptible abdominal organ for cancer is the esophagus with 36%, Liver 18%, Pancreas 10%, large bowel 10%, stomach 7% , and gall bladder with 6% incidence. The study also reveal that: out of the total patient (100) who were receive radiotherapy during 2008, about 37.3% were suffering of recurrence cases, 48.2% were presented with cancer secondary i.e. cancer metastasis and 14.2% were never seen for follow up.