Gastric cancer in Africa: Current management and outcomes

Table 1 Gastric cancer incidence and mortality rates

	Incidence1			Mortality1
	Males	Females	Both	Males	Females	Both
Africa2	4.7	3.3	4.0	4.4	3.2	3.8
Northern	3.9	2.4	3.2	3.7	2.3	3.0
Eastern	5.6	4.0	4.7	5.4	3.8	4.6
Central	5.3	4.7	4.0	5.2	4.6	4.8
Southern	4.1	2.2	3.0	3.9	1.8	2.8
Western	4.5	3.3	3.8	4.3	3.1	3.7
Asia	25.9	11.7	18.5	18.3	8.9	13.4
North America	5.8	2.8	4.2	2.8	1.8	2.1
South America	17.3	8.4	12.4	14.2	6.9	10.2
Europe	14.5	7.0	10.3	11.3	5.3	7.9
Australia	7.4	3.4	5.3	4.3	2.1	3.1

¹Incidence and mortality are represented as age-standardized rates (per 100000);

²Countries within each geographic region (per GLOBOCAN) is listed below: Africa: Northern: Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara; Eastern: Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, La Reunion-France, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Rwanda, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe; Central: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Change, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon; Southern: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South African Republic, Swaziland; Western: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Cote d’Ivoire, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo; Asia: Eastern: China, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Taiwan; South-Eastern: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timore-Leste, Vietnam; South-Central: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; Western: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Gaza Strip and West Bank (Palestine), Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen;North America: United States, Canada; South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guyana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela; Europe: Central and Eastern: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Ukraine; Northern: Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom; Southern: Albania, Bosnia, Croatia, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain; Western: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland.