[Epidemiology of digestive tube cancers in Senegal. Apropos of 18,000 endoscopies carried out at the Hospital Principal of Dakar].
314 bowel cancers were discovered in 219 men and 95 women of negroid race in the course of 18,000 upper and lower endoscopies taken over the past 5 years at Dakar's Main Hospital. The average age of the sick persons is 50 years. Gastric cancer (170 cases) is the most frequent, followed by recto-colic cancer (71 cases) and oesophagian cancer (61 cases). The use of endoscopy and perhaps dietetic changes in the urban area, explain the large number of bowel cancers discovered in Dakar.
Peghini
M
M
Barabe
P
P
Touze
J E
JE
Morcillo
R
R
Veillard
J M
JM
Diagne
L
L
Eynard
J P
JP
Diallo
A
A
Gueye
P M
PM
Mbaye
P S
PS
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D003113:Colonoscopy; D004067:Digestive System Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012675:Senegal; D012812:Sigmoidoscopy
Epidémiologie des cancers du tube digestif au Sénégal. A propos de 18,000 endoscopies effectuées à l'Hôpital Principal de Dakar.