A million africans a year dying from cancer by 2030: What can cancer research and control offer to the continent?

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 245-250

  Sylla, Bakary S ^a   Wild, Christopher P ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

Africa; cancer; etiology; prevention

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; ANTISCHISTOSOMAL AGENT; HEPATITIS B VACCINE;

AFRICA; AFRICAN; AGING; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BREAST CANCER; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RESEARCH; COLON CANCER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; ETHNICITY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LIFESTYLE; LIVER CANCER; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PASSIVE SMOKING; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STOMACH CARCINOMA; TECHNOLOGY; TOBACCO; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WART VIRUS;

AFRICA; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 83655167298     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: 10970215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.26333     Document Type: Review

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