Cancer Mortality In Egypt

One aspect of the study of cancer is the examination of records of the disease as it manifests itself in various parts of the world. The mortali ty records of the separate countries are fertile sources of information concerning the effects on the disease of varied climatic conditions, soils, diets, social habits, and race. Although death reports of the European countries as well as those of the United States have been extensively tabulated and studied, examination of reports for countries such as Egypt have not often been made. The reported cancer mortality rate in Egypt was 27.2 per 100,000 inhabitants in 1942. This rate is low compared with 122.1 in the United States and 183.4 in England and Wales for the same year. Its meaning with respect to the incidence of cancer in Egypt merits consideration, and forms the objective of the present paper.