Geographical Distribution of Cancer in East Africa: A New Clinicopathological Approach

Abstract

Carcinoma of the penis, Kaposi's sarcoma, squamous-cell carcinoma of the skin, oesophageal cancer, and gastric carcinoma have a variable incidence in different parts of Uganda and probably in other areas of East Africa. General statements about cancer in Africans should therefore be accepted with reserve. More accurate figures are needed before studies on aetiology can be started. These figures may be attained by a combined approach on the part of the clinician and pathologist. Personal contact is an essential feature of such a programme. © 1965, British Medical Journal Publishing Group. All rights reserved.