Browsing The Daffodil Centre by subject "African Continental Ancestry Group"
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Antibodies against human herpesvirus 8 in black South African patients with cancer
Published 1999BACKGROUND: Infection with human herpesvirus 8 (HHV-8) has been consistently linked to Kaposi's sarcoma, but its mode of transmission, association with other cancers, and interaction with the human immunodeficiency virus ...Article -
Effects of tobacco smoking on cancer and cardiovascular disease in urban black South Africans
Published 2008Demographic and lifestyle information from 9690 black patients diagnosed with cancer or cardiovascular disease was collected in an ongoing case-control study in Johannesburg, South Africa. Compared to never smokers, the ...Article -
Part I: Cancer in Indigenous Africans--burden, distribution, and trends
Published 2008Cancer is an under-emphasised issue in Africa, partly because of the overwhelming burden of communicable diseases. However cancer is a common disease in Africa with 650 000 people, of a population of 965 million, diagnosed ...Article -
Part II: Cancer in Indigenous Africans--causes and control
Published 2007Africa has contributed substantial knowledge to the understanding of certain risk factors for cancer, such as the role of several infectious agents (eg, viruses, bacteria, and parasites), aflatoxins, and certain lifestyle ...Article -
Risk factors for oesophageal, lung, oral and laryngeal cancers in black South Africans
Published 2006The authors used data collected from 1995 to 1999, from an on-going cancer case-control study in greater Johannesburg, to estimate the importance of tobacco and alcohol consumption and other suspected risk factors with ...Article