Letters
Health in Africa: Time to wake up to cancer's toll
BMJ 2005; 331 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.331.7521.904 (Published 13 October 2005) Cite this as: BMJ 2005;331:904
- Scott A Murray (scott.murray@ed.ac.uk), reader,
- Elizabeth Grant, research fellow,
- Faith Mwangi-Powell, executive director
- Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Division of Community Health Sciences; General Practice, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH8 9DX
- African Palliative Care Association (APCA), PO Box 72518, Kampala, Uganda
EDITOR—As exemplified by your theme issue on Africa of 1 October, cancer has remained comparatively neglected in Africa although increasingly prevalent: 70% of people with cancer live in the economically developing world, where by 2020 the annual death toll is predicted to reach 20 million.1
In sub-Saharan Africa measures to prevent cancer emphasised in …
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