title: Notifiable malignant lesions in the RSA, 1979-1983--trends and mortality. II. Primary malignant neoplasms of the pleura.
abstract: From August 1979 to December 1983, 22 cases of and 17 deaths due to primary malignant neoplasms of the pleura were notified to the Department of National Health and Population Development. Correspondingly, 458 deaths due to mesothelioma and malignant neoplasms of the pleura were registered at Central Statistical Services; 4% of these deaths were notified. Most of the deaths due to mesothelioma and malignant neoplasms of the pleura registered were in white males, who showed a mortality rate of 15.8/1,000,000.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D044383:Black People; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010997:Pleural Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*; D013019:South Africa; D044465:White People