       Document 0469
 DOCN  M9610469
 TI    Cancer in the African population of Harare, Zimbabwe, 1990-1992.
 DT    9601
 AU    Bassett MT; Chokunonga E; Mauchaza B; Levy L; Ferlay J; Parkin DM;
       Zimbabwe Cancer Registry, Parirenyatwa Hospital, Avondale,; Harare.
 SO    Int J Cancer. 1995 Sep 27;63(1):29-36. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96000241
 AB    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.
 DE    Adolescence  Adult  Aged  Breast Neoplasms/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Cervix
       Neoplasms/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Child  Child, Preschool  Developing Countries
       Female  Human  Infant  Leukemia/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Male  Middle Age
       Neoplasms/*EPIDEMIOLOGY  Sarcoma, Kaposi's/EPIDEMIOLOGY  Support,
       Non-U.S. Gov't  Zimbabwe/ETHNOLOGY  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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