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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on July 24, 2007
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2007 99(15):1146-1147; doi:10.1093/jnci/djm098
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NEWS

CANCER IN AFRICA

Health Experts Aim To Curb Potential Epidemic

Kate Travis

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It seems like cancer should be the least of the health worries in most of the countries on the African continent, where communicable diseases are the leading cause of death and the life expectancy in more than half of the countries is under 50 years.

Compared with those of Western countries, cancer rates in the region are relatively low. But the prognosis for cancer in Africa looks grim: In sub-Saharan Africa, there were 582,000 new cancers diagnosed in 2002, and 412,100 people died from the disease. If no interventions are put in place, it's expected that the number of new cases diagnosed will rise to 804,000 and mortality will reach 626,400 by 2020.


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