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Table 1 Estimated number of incident cases, number of deaths, and number of 1-year prevalent cases among women in sub-Saharan Africa, by region, 2012

From: Improving early detection of breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: why mammography may not be the way forward

 

Age-standardised incidence (per 100,000 women)

Age-standardised mortality (per 100,000 women)

Number of prevalent cases over one year (thousands)

Central Africa

26.8

14.9

8.9

Eastern Africa

30.4

15.6

27.0

Western Africa

38.6

20.1

33.3

Southern Africa

38.9

15.5

8.4

  1. Source: Ferlay J, Soerjomataram I, Ervik M, Dikshit R, Eser S, Maters C, Rebelo M, Parkin DM, Forman D, Bray F (2013) GLOBOCAN 2012 v1.0, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worlwide: IARC CancerBase No. 11 [Internet]. Lyon, France. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available from: http://globocan.iarc.fr, accessed on 1st April 2018
  2. See Additional file 1 for regional classification of SSA countries