Research Article
Children with Kaposi Sarcoma in Two Southern African Hospitals: Clinical Presentation, Management, and Outcome
Table 1
Annual numbers of KS recorded in South African Children’s Cancer Registry 1998–2008, mean age, and survival to date.
| Year | Total cancers | KS | % of total cancers | Mean age (months) | Alive | % survival |
| 1998 | 592 | 1 | 0.16 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 1999 | 575 | 1 | 0.17 | 56 | 1 | 100 | 2000 | 716 | 9 | 1.2 | 54.3 | 1 | 11 | 2001 | 648 | 12 | 1.8 | 66.6 | 10 | 83 | 2002 | 599 | 14 | 2.3 | 78.2 | 5 | 35 | 2003 | 643 | 20 | 3.1 | 66 | 13 | 65 | 2004 | 723 | 24 | 3.3 | 79.3 | 16 | 66 | 2005 | 650 | 24 | 3.6 | 104.1 | 10 | 41 | 2006 | 592 | 16 | 2.7 | 82.5 | 13 | 81 | 2007 | 564 | 13 | 2.3 | 82.7 | 12 | 92 | 2008 | 529 | 26 | 4.9 | 71.7 | 18 | 69 |
| Total | 6302 | 160 | 2.5 | 73.3 | 99 | 61 |
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