Incidence of the Burkitt Tumour in Ibadan, Western Nigeria

Abstract

The crude and age-specific rates of the Burkitt tumour in Ibadan, Western Nigeria, have been assessed. When all ageThe crude and age-specific rates of the Burkitt tumour in Ibadan, Western Nigeria, have been assessed. When all agegroups were considered the tumour was found to be second in incidence only to carcinoma of the cervix, and it was by far the most common malignancy seen in childhood, being many times more common than leukaemia in the American negro in comparable age-groups. © 1964, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.