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Editors: Adeola Akintola, Michael Odutola, Temitope Olayinka, Akinwale Akinjiola, Uchechukwu E. Nwokwu, and Clement Adebamowo.
Cancer is a rapidly growing public health burden for low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), like Nigeria. The growth in cancer burden necessitates the need to strengthen cancer registration systems as tools of cancer surveillance, monitoring, evaluation, and research. Making this data widely available to researchers, cancer care providers, policy makers, and the general public would improve knowledge of the commonest cancers, changing patterns and regional variations in cancer incidence and outcomes within and across regions and localities.
With population of over 200 million people, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. Improving cancer registration coverage of the country significantly increases the proportion of sub-Saharan Africans who are covered by cancer registration and surveillance. In this Volume 2 of the Cancer in Nigeria book series, we cover the years 2009 to 2016, and report on the conditions and data from all hospital-based and population-based cancer registries in the country. The primary dataset and additional information from each of the cancer registries is available under controlled but open access terms from the National System of Cancer Registries (nigeriancancerregistries.net).
Our report shows that breast cancer is the commonest cancer in women while prostate cancer is the commonest cancer in men, and this did not vary significantly across the country. However there was variation in the incidence of cancer and the other top cancers by regions. We provide editorial comments to guide readers in the use and interpretation of the data where necessary. We acknowledge that cancer registration in Nigeria, like other low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), is beset with challenges and these represent opportunities for innovative interventions.
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