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And yet, if one takes a look at South African statistics, age, race, gender and socio-economic status play an important part in determining the prevalence of particular cancers.

Cancer and the South African woman
The cancers affecting all South African women, in order of prevalence, are:

• Breast cancer
• Cervical cancer
• Colo-rectal cancer
• Lung cancer
• Oesophageal cancer

Certain cancers are more prevalent amongst black South African women. They are, in order of prevalence:

• Cervical cancer
• Breast cancer
• Oesophageal cancer
• Uterine cancer
• Lung cancer

Cancer and the South African man
The cancers affecting all South African men, in order of prevalence, are:

• Prostate cancer
• Lung cancer
• Oesophageal cancer
• Bladder cancer
• Colo-rectal cancer

The cancers more prevalent amongst black men are:

• Oesophageal cancer
• Lung cancer
• Liver cancer
• Cancer of the Larynx

(Statistics provided by Ayesha Sassman, Information Officer of the Cancer Association of South Africa)

Cancer and the South African child
The cancers most prevalent amongst South African children follows a worldwide trend, according to Sassman :

• leukaemia (24 percent)
• brain tumours ( 21 percent)
• lymphomas (16 percent)
• cancer of the kidney – also known as Wilm’s tumour (10 percent)
• cancer of the sympathic nervous system, known as neuroblastoma.

Read more:
Some cancers develop quickly
Prostate cancer highly treatable

(February 2007)
 

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