Background With the cancer burden rising in sub-Saharan Africa, countries in the region
need surveillance systems to measure the magnitude of the problem and monitor progress …

Although research has reported that prostate cancer (PCa) incidence and mortality rates are
among the highest for African Americans, the data is inconclusive regarding PCa rates in …

Background: Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause
of cancer-related death among women worldwide. Herein, we examine global trends in …

Background Despite mortality from breast cancer in Africa being higher than in high income
countries, breast cancer has not been extensively studied in the region. The aim of this …

Estimates of the worldwide incidence, mortality and prevalence of 26 cancers in the year
2002 are now available in the GLOBOCAN series of the International Agency for Research …

Despite decreases in the cancer death rates in high-resource countries, such as the USA,
the number of cancer cases and deaths is projected to more than double worldwide over the …

Several infectious agents are considered to be causes of cancer in humans. The fraction of
the different types of cancer, and of all cancers worldwide and in different regions, has been …

Summary 15 years after its first democratic election, South Africa is in the midst of a profound
health transition that is characterised by a quadruple burden of communicable, non …

This 2004 volume in the World Health Organization series on histologic and genetic typing
of human tumors covers tumors of the kidney, urinary system, prostate, testis and …

BACKGROUND The third edition of the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology
(ICD‐O‐3), which was published in 2000, introduced major changes in coding and …