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The Gambia's nationwide population-based cancer registry, set up in 1986 to measure whether infant hepatitis B vaccination would prevent liver cancer. Liver cancer was the commonest cancer in men and cervical cancer in women.
The registry was established in 1986 within the Gambia Hepatitis Intervention Study, a randomised trial of infant hepatitis B vaccination applied to public health policy, to collect data on every cancer diagnosed nationwide. A PLoS One paper by its staff (2013), with an author affiliation at the National Cancer Registry, Fajara, analysed 1990 to 2009: in men liver cancer made up 60% of cancers, then prostate, lung, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and stomach; in women cervical cancer 33%, liver 24% and breast 11%. Incidence was stable, and the data were not yet enough to detect an effect of vaccination on liver cancer. The coordinates are an approximate point for Fajara.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Cervical cancer, Breast cancer (all types), Prostate cancer.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Cervical cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Breast cancer (all types).
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Cervical cancer, Hepatocellular carcinoma.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Cervical cancer, Breast cancer (all types).
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Breast cancer (all types), Prostate cancer.
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Cervical cancer, Breast cancer (all types).
Shares International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO), Cervical cancer.
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