Journal of Carcinogenesis & Mutagenesis

Guifo ML

Publications

• Mini Review
  Statistical View of Malignant and Suspected Malignant Tumors in the Surgical Ward of the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital
  Author(s): Willy DT, Guifo ML, Bang A, Ngo Nonga B, Essomba A and Sosso MAWilly DT, Guifo ML, Bang A, Ngo Nonga B, Essomba A and Sosso MA
  
  Cancer is a major public health problem in both industrialized and developing countries. One in ten deaths is attributable to cancer worldwide. This situation calls for a development of a cancer registry in hospital and in the general population that can allow a systematic collection, storage, analysis and interpretation of cancer data. The purpose of this work is to highlight an epidemiological profile of malignant tumors and suspected of malignancies at the Yaounde University Teaching Hospital to improve their management. We conducted a descriptive and retrospective study over a period of five years from 2010 to 2014. We registered 231 hospitalized patients for malignant or suspected malignancies during the study period. The predominance was male with a sex ratio of 1.03. The modal classes were in both sexes 51-60 years followed by 31-40 years. The main tumors encountered we.. View More»
  

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