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Country Number Crude rate 2 standardized
Age
rate 3
Cumulative
risk 4
Rwanda 986 19.7 34.5 3.76
Senegal 1,197 19.4 34.7 3.85
Sierra Leone 670 23.5 41.9 4.84
Somalia 541 12.0 20.3 2.28
South African Republic 5,743 22.8 26.6 2.93
Sudan 923 4.5 7.0 0.83
Swaziland 198 33.1 50.0 5.01
Tanzania 6,241 29.3 50.9 5.68
The Gambia 195 23.3 32.4 3.13
Togo 595 18.2 30.0 3.54
Tunisia 314 6.2 6.3 0.66
Uganda 3,577 22.6 47.5 5.21
Western Sahara 48 20.5 28.4 2.99
Zambia 1,839 29.1 52.8 6.14
Zimbabwe 1,855 28.8 47.4 5.26
1 Source: Ferlay J, Shin HR, Bray F, Forman D, Mathers C and Parkin DM. GLOBOCAN 2008, Cancer
Incidence and Mortality Worldwide: IARC CancerBase No. 10 [Internet]. Lyon, France: International
Agency for Research on Cancer; 2010. Available from: http://globocan.iarc.fr
2 Crude rate: Annual rate per 100,000 persons at risk. This is calculated by dividing the number of new
cancers observed during a given time period by the corresponding number of person years in the
population at risk.
3 Age standardized rate: The number of new cases per 100,000 persons per year. An age-standardized
rate is the rate that a population would have if it had a standard age structure. Standardization is
necessary when comparing several populations that differ with respect to age because age has a
powerful influence on the risk of cancer.
4 Cumulative risk: The probability or risk of women getting the disease during a specified period. For
cancer, it is expressed as the number of new born children (out of 100 or 1,000) who would be expected
to develop a particular cancer before the age of 75 if they had the rates of cancer observed in the period
in the absence of competing causes.
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