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Cancer in the african population of harare, Zimbabwe, 1990–1992
Author(s) -
Bassett M. T.,
Chokuga E.,
Mauchaza B.,
Levy L.,
Ferlay J.,
Parkin D. M.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910630107
Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , medicine , cancer , cervix , cancer registry , cervical cancer , population , sarcoma , demography , prostate cancer , gynecology , pathology , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
The data presented from the population‐based cancer registry in Harare, Zimbabwe, represent the first information on the incidence of cancer in Southern Africa for almost 20 years. In the African population in Zimbabwe there are several features in common with other countries in sub‐Saharan Africa: high rates of liver, prostate and cervix cancer, low rates of large‐bowel cancer and breast cancer. Also, as reported from southern and south‐eastern Africa, there are relatively high incidence rates of cancers of the oesophagus, bladder and (in men) lung. The AIDS epidemic has given rise to a striking increase in incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma (now the commonest cancer of African men), but there is not much evidence for an increase in incidence of non‐Hodgkin lymphomas nor, although rates are very high, of cervical cancer.