Cancer in Rwanda

✍ Scribed by Robert Newton; Pie-Joseph Ngilimana; Andrew Grulich; Valerie Beral; Béatrice Sindikubwabo; Agnès Nganyira; D. M. Parkin

• Book ID: 102651235
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 698 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7136
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0215(19960328)66:1<75::aid-ijc14>3.0.co;2-a

✦ Synopsis

Data are presented on the frequency of malignant tumours registered at the population-based cancer registry in the southern prefecture of Butare, Rwanda, from May 1991 until 2 months before the outbreak of civil war in April 1994. Beginning in 1992, subjects were also interviewed about socio-demographic and life-style factors that have been associated with cancer risk in the West. The distribution of cancer in Rwanda is similar to that in other countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The most frequent cancers are those with possible infectious aetiologies: liver cancer (I 2%), cervical cancer (I 29'0) and stomach cancer (9%). In addition, cancers known to be associated with HIV infection are relatively frequent (Kaposi's sarcoma [6%] and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma [3%]). Chronic infection, includ-