With recent changes in environmental factors among Africans in South Africa, how have cancer occurrences been affected?

Journal of The Royal Society for the Promotion of Health

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 148-155

  Walker, Alexander R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africans; Cancer occurrences; Environmental factors; Epidemiological changes; South Africa

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; BREAST CANCER; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIET; DIETARY FIBER; DIETARY INTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FAT INTAKE; FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; POPULATION; PROSTATE CANCER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 0036751093     PISSN: 14664240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/146642400212200309     Document Type: Review

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