Phiona Bukirwa

1 INTRODUCTION Worldwide, colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer with an estimated 1.9 million new cases in 2020, and the second most common cause of death from cancer, with an estimated 935,000 deaths.1 The distribution of CRC burden varies widely, with more than two-thirds of all cases and about 60% of all deaths occurring in countries with a high or very high human development index (HDI).

AFCRN African Cancer Registry Network ASR age-standardized rate CI confidence interval DCO death certificate only HDI human development index ICD-10 International Classification of Diseases 10th revision ICD-O-3 International Classification of Diseases for Oncology 3rd revision LMICs Lower and middle-income countries MV morphological verification OC ovarian Cancer SSA sub-Saharan African TNM tumour, node and metastasis 1 INTRODUCTION Worldwide, ovarian cancer (OC) is among the 10 most...

Research in context Evidence before this study Survival after cancer diagnosis has improved in many countries worldwide in the past three decades, however, cancer survival continues to vary largely across populations, with lower survival reported in countries in the sub-Saharan African region than in other regions.