Geographical Variation of Carcinoma of the Penis in Uganda

A series of 458 cases of carcinoma of the penis occurring in Ugandan Africans is analysed. These were derived from the records of a country-wide biopsy service over the 5-year period 1964-68. Where circumcision is practised the incidence of this tumour is very low. However, the geographical variatio...

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Autores principales: Schmauz, R., Jain, D. K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1971
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2008564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/5581298
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description A series of 458 cases of carcinoma of the penis occurring in Ugandan Africans is analysed. These were derived from the records of a country-wide biopsy service over the 5-year period 1964-68. Where circumcision is practised the incidence of this tumour is very low. However, the geographical variation also showed marked differences in the uncircumcised, regardless of tribal antecedents and sometimes over quite small distances. It is suggested, therefore, that in Uganda other aetiological factors apart from circumcision are operative and that these factors vary with geographical location rather than with tribal affiliation.
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spelling pubmed-20085642009-09-10 Geographical Variation of Carcinoma of the Penis in Uganda Schmauz, R. Jain, D. K. Br J Cancer Articles A series of 458 cases of carcinoma of the penis occurring in Ugandan Africans is analysed. These were derived from the records of a country-wide biopsy service over the 5-year period 1964-68. Where circumcision is practised the incidence of this tumour is very low. However, the geographical variation also showed marked differences in the uncircumcised, regardless of tribal antecedents and sometimes over quite small distances. It is suggested, therefore, that in Uganda other aetiological factors apart from circumcision are operative and that these factors vary with geographical location rather than with tribal affiliation. Nature Publishing Group 1971-03 /pmc/articles/PMC2008564/ /pubmed/5581298 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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