Cancer in Africa: Is It a Genetic or Environmental Health Problem?

Cancer statistics, 2020

(2020) Rebecca L. Siegel et al.   CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS

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

(2019) Eleanor Black et al.   Globalization and Health

TMPRSS2‐ERG fusions linked to prostate cancer racial health disparities: A focus on Africa

(2019) James Blackburn et al.   PROSTATE

Population-level impact and herd effects following the introduction of human papillomavirus vaccination programmes: updated systematic review and meta-analysis

(2019) Mélanie Drolet et al.   LANCET

Cervical cancer screening knowledge and barriers among women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

(2019) Sefonias Getachew et al.   PLoS One

Risk of Cancer Death Among White, Black, and Hispanic Populations in South Florida

(2019) Paulo S. Pinheiro et al.   Preventing Chronic Disease

Relationship between West African ancestry with lung cancer risk and survival in African Americans

(2019) Khadijah A. Mitchell et al.   CANCER CAUSES & CONTROL

Global burden of cancer attributable to infections in 2018: a worldwide incidence analysis

(2019) Catherine de Martel et al.   Lancet Global Health

HIV-positive women have higher risk of human papilloma virus infection, precancerous lesions, and cervical cancer

(2018) Gui Liu et al.   AIDS

Cancer Site–Specific Disparities in New York, Including the 1945–1965 Birth Cohort's Impact on Liver Cancer Patterns

(2018) Paulo S. Pinheiro et al.   CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY BIOMARKERS & PREVENTION

Racial Disparities in Lung Cancer Survival: The Contribution of Stage, Treatment, and Ancestry

(2018) Carissa C. Jones et al.   Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Evidence of synergistic relationships between HIV and Human Papillomavirus (HPV): systematic reviews and meta-analyses of longitudinal studies of HPV acquisition and clearance by HIV status, and of HIV acquisition by HPV status

(2018) Katharine J Looker et al.   Journal of the International AIDS Society

Liver cancer mortality trends in South Africa: 1999–2015

(2018) Daniel Mak et al.   BMC CANCER

Global cancer statistics 2018: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries

(2018) Freddie Bray et al.   CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS

Whole Genome Sequencing Reveals Elevated Tumor Mutational Burden and Initiating Driver Mutations in African Men with Treatment-Naive, High-Risk Prostate Cancer

(2018) Weerachai Jaratlerdsiri et al.   CANCER RESEARCH

Estimating the global cancer incidence and mortality in 2018: GLOBOCAN sources and methods

(2018) J. Ferlay et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER

The health and economic impact of scaling cervical cancer prevention in 50 low- and lower-middle-income countries

(2017) Nicole G. Campos et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGY & OBSTETRICS

Interventions to close the divide for women with breast and cervical cancer between low-income and middle-income countries and high-income countries

(2017) Lynette Denny et al.   LANCET

Comparison of Prevalence and Types of Mutations in Lung Cancers Among Black and White Populations

(2017) Joshua D. Campbell et al.   JAMA Oncology

Cancer statistics for African Americans, 2016: Progress and opportunities in reducing racial disparities

(2016) Carol E. DeSantis et al.   CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS

Racial Variations in Prostate Cancer Molecular Subtypes and Androgen Receptor Signaling Reflect Anatomic Tumor Location

(2016) Farzana A. Faisal et al.   EUROPEAN UROLOGY

Black Heterogeneity in Cancer Mortality: US-Blacks, Haitians, and Jamaicans

(2016) Paulo S. Pinheiro et al.   Cancer Control

Metabolites of the Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Phenanthrene in the Urine of Cigarette Smokers from Five Ethnic Groups with Differing Risks for Lung Cancer

(2016) Yesha M. Patel et al.   PLoS One

Incidence of cervical precancers among HIV-seropositive women

(2015) L. Stewart Massad et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY

Global cancer statistics, 2012

(2015) Lindsey A. Torre et al.   CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS

Racial/ethnic differences in lifestyle-related factors and prostate cancer risk: the Multiethnic Cohort Study

(2015) Song-Yi Park et al.   CANCER CAUSES & CONTROL

Differences in Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis and Cancer-Specific Survival by Race and Ethnicity in the United States

(2015) Javaid Iqbal et al.   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Somatic Mutation Spectrum of Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer in African Americans: A Pooled Analysis

(2015) Luiz H. Araujo et al.   Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Understanding the roles of faith-based health-care providers in Africa: review of the evidence with a focus on magnitude, reach, cost, and satisfaction

(2015) Jill Olivier et al.   LANCET

Breast cancer in Sub-Saharan Africa: opportunities for prevention

(2014) Louise A. Brinton et al.   BREAST CANCER RESEARCH AND TREATMENT

Cancer statistics, 2014

(2014) Rebecca Siegel et al.   CA-A CANCER JOURNAL FOR CLINICIANS

Racial Disparities in Oncologic Outcomes After Radical Prostatectomy: Long-term Follow-up

(2014) Farzana A. Faisal et al.   UROLOGY

Why the time is right to tackle breast and cervical cancer in low-resource settings

(2013) Vivien Davis Tsu et al.   BULLETIN OF THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION

Human papillomavirus prevalence and type distribution in invasive cervical cancer in sub-Saharan Africa

(2013) Lynette Denny et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER

Smoking status and self-reported race affect the frequency of clinically relevant oncogenic alterations in non-small-cell lung cancers at a United States-based academic medical practice

(2013) Norihiro Yamaguchi et al.   LUNG CANCER

Demographic, knowledge, attitudinal, and accessibility factors associated with uptake of cervical cancer screening among women in a rural district of Tanzania: Three public policy implications

(2012) Frida S Lyimo et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Breast cancer early detection methods for low and middle income countries, a review of the evidence

(2012) Marilys Corbex et al.   BREAST

Epidemiology of Viral Hepatitis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

(2012) Hashem B. El-Serag   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Genetic polymorphism and prostate cancer aggressiveness: A case-only study of 1,536 GWAS and candidate SNPs in African-Americans and European-Americans

(2012) Jeannette T. Bensen et al.   PROSTATE

Breast-cancer early detection in low-income and middle-income countries: do what you can versus one size fits all

(2011) Joe B Harford   LANCET ONCOLOGY

Human papillomavirus infection and the primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer

(2010) Douglas R. Lowy et al.   CANCER

Evidence Supports a Faster Growth Rate and/or Earlier Transformation to Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer in Black Than in White American Men, and Influences Racial Progression and Mortality Disparity

(2010) Isaac J. Powell et al.   JOURNAL OF UROLOGY

TMPRSS2-ERG gene fusion prevalence and class are significantly different in prostate cancer of caucasian, african-american and japanese patients

(2010) Cristina Magi-Galluzzi et al.   PROSTATE

Human papillomavirus infection in women with and without cervical cancer in Ibadan, Nigeria

(2010) Clement Okolo et al.   Infectious Agents and Cancer

Genetic Abnormalities of theEGFRPathway in African American Patients With Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

(2009) Rom S. Leidner et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY

Interplay of Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Treatment on Survival of Patients With Prostate Cancer

(2009) Kendra Schwartz et al.   UROLOGY