Cancer in East African Indians

✍ Scribed by Saif Chopra; A. C. Templeton

• Book ID: 102864610
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1971
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 534 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7136
• DOI: 10.1002/ijc.2910080121

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

An analysis of 586 cases of cancer occurring in Indians resident in East Africa is presented and compared with proportional rates found in Indians in India and Durban. The proportion of carcinoma of the breast is much higher in East Africa than in India or South Africa, particularly among Muslim women. The high rate of gastric and bronchial neoplasms seen in Durban is not found in East Africa. Indians in East Africa and Durban both show a markedly lower proportion of buccal neoplasms than that which pertains in India. Reasons for these variations are discussed, most of which are explicable in terms of differences in the environment.