The digestive system GIT
cancer, from the oesophagus to the
rectum, remains one of the most
common types of cancer and causes of
death worldwide in both men and
women. A case-control study was
conducted in Radiation and Isotopes
Centre Khartoum RICK targeting the
digestive system cancer patients who
came to get treatment or follow-up
during 2010. A total of 200 digestive
system cancer patients and 200 control
cases were interviewed using
purposively designed questionnaires.
The objective of this research is
to investigate what is of cause of
digestive system cancer. Contingency
table as statistical analysis tool to find
out that a person developed digestive
system cancer by expose for this risk
factor: age, gender, canned food, spicy
food, diabetic, hypertensive, AIDS,
jaundice with type (HA, HB and HC),
anaemia, regular tab, any digestive
surgery and past history of digestive
system disease and cancer in the
patients and family, gastroesophageal
reflux, endoscopy, achalasia disease,
gallstone and chclecstystilis of the
gallbladder, gallbladder polyps,
chronic typhoid, chronic pancreatitis,
heartburn, a persistent malaria,
Helicobacter pylori infection and
hypertrophic gastropathy,
schistosomiasis, polyps, ulcerative
colilis, Crohn disease, inflammatory
bowel disease and sigmodiscopy,
smoking, shaisha, snuff, consumed of
alcohol; and the time period for each of
that, drinking very hot liquids, physical
activities and herbs used for treatment .
The study was important as it
revealed there high risk for digestive
patient with digestive system cancer.
Thus intensive and effective health
educational programs are needed to
enrich the knowledge about cancer and
causes and to eradicate the early
detection.