By Juli McGowan Boit | Published: July 7, 2011
Cancer rates in Africa are expected to grow by 400% over the next 50 years. This relates to HIV-related cancers (such as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, cervical carcinoma and Kaposi’s sarcoma) and to those specific to Africa such as squamous cell neoplasia of the conjuctiva. The need for palliative cancer care grows with increasing cancer incidence due toindustrialisation. The WHO estimates that there are more than 0.5 million annual deaths from cancer in Africa and that by 2020 70% of new cancer cases will be in the developing world (Harding & Higginson 2004).
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