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Akintola A, Odutola M, Olayinka T, et al., editors. Cancer in Nigeria: 2009 – 2016 [Internet]. Nigeria: Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries; 2021.
Adamawa State is in the north-eastern region of Nigeria. It shares common boundaries with Borno State to the north-west, Gombe State to the west, Taraba State to the south-west and its eastern border forms the national eastern border with Cameroon. The capital the Adamawa State is Yola.
Adamawa state has an estimated population of 3,178,950 (1,607,270 males and 1,571,680 females) [4]. It accounts for 2.3% of Nigeria’s population (NPC, 2006).
The State is located on coordinates 9°20′N 12°30′E. It covers a land mass of 36,917square kilometres.
The major ethnic group in Adamawa State are the Fulanis. Hausa is the common language of the people. Most of the people living in the state are farmers engaging mostly in cattle rearing and cultivation of cash and food crops such as cotton, groundnuts, maize, yam, cassava, guinea corn, millet and rice. Adamawa State has been impacted over the past few years by the Islamist insurgency resulting in the people relocating to other states [7].
The Federal Medical Center (FMC) Yola Cancer Registry is in the Histopathology Department of the Federal Medical Center Yola. The registry was set up in 2017 as a Population Based Cancer Registry. It has been defined to cover Ganye, Mubi North, Yola North and Yola South Local Government Areas with a population of 717,334 people.
The registry does not have data for the period under review 2009 to 2016.
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