Gastrointestinal malignancies at five regional referral hospitals in Uganda.

8 , 9 Cancer of the large bowel had long been noted to be relatively infrequent in Uganda, 9 , 10 Data from Kyadondo County shows an increasing trend in the incidence of colorectal cancer. 11 Attempts to determine the pattern of cancer in Mbarara, SouthWestern Uganda, stomach cancer accounted for 12% of all cancers in males and six percent in females. 12 The pattern was different from that of Kyadondo County in Central Uganda were stomach cancer was found to be rare, whereas oesophageal was one of the commonest cancer in Kyadondo County but rare in Mbarara. 12 The pattern of cancer in general and gastrointestinal malignancy in particular is important.

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