CANCER IN THE AFRICAN POPULATION OF HARARE, ZIMBABWE, 1990-1992

The data presented from the population-based cancer registry in Harare , Zimbabwe, represent the first information on the Incidence of cancer in Southern Africa for almost 20 years. In the African population in Zimbabwe there are several features in common with other countries in sub-Saharan Africa: high rates of liver, prostate and cervix cancer, l ow rates of large-bowel cancer and breast cancer. Also, as reported fr om southern and south-eastern Africa, there are relatively high incide nce rates of cancers of the oesophagus, bladder and (in men) lung. The AlDS epidemic has given rise to a striking increase in incidence of K aposi's sarcoma (now the commonest cancer of African men), but there i s not much evidence for an increase in incidence of non-Hodgkin lympho mas nor, although rates are very high, of cervical cancer. (C) 1995 Wi ley-Liss, Inc.