Cancer mortality patterns in selected Northern and Southern African countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-communicable diseases have been rapidly increasing in African countries. We provided updated cancer death patterns in selected African countries over the last two decades.

Methods

We extracted official death certifications and population data from the WHO and the United Nations Population Division databases. We computed country- and sex-specific age-standardized mortality rates per 100 000 person-years for all cancers combined and ten major cancer sites for the periods 2005-2007 and 2015-2017.

Results

Lung cancer ranked first for male cancer mortality in all selected countries in the last available period (with the highest rates in Réunion 24/100 000), except for South Africa where prostate cancer was the leading cause of death (23/100 000). Prostate ca

SUBMITTER: Pizzato M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10965137 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature