title: [Cancer in Rwanda. Study of relative frequency].
abstract: The relative frequency by age, sex and site of the malignant tumours diagnosed during the years 1982-84 in the main pathology department of Rwanda (serving approximately 80% of the population) is presented. Excluding skin, the numerically most important cancers in males were Kaposi's sarcoma (11.5%), stomach cancer (9.9%), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (8.1%) and primary carcinoma of liver (6.6%), and in females cancers of the uterine cervix (21.4%), breast (16.8%) and stomach (6.5%). The possible sources of bias are discussed, and the results are compared with those from previous studies in this part of central Africa.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008113:Liver Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012432:Rwanda; D012514:Sarcoma, Kaposi / Q000453:epidemiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology
vernacular_title: Le cancer au Rwanda. Etude de fréquence relative.