Improving Breast Cancer Control via the Use of Community Health Workers in South Africa: A Critical Review
Table 1
Female breast cancer incidence rates, mortality rates, and mortality : incidence ratios for selected countries and the world, by World Bank income classification.
Country name
Region
Incidence rate
Mortality rate
Mortality to incidence ratio
World
World
37.4
13.2
35.3
Middle incom-upper
Botswana
Africa
33.4
25.0
74.9
Brazil
Latin America
46.0
14.1
30.7
Colombia
Latin America
30.3
12.5
41.3
Gabon
Africa
18.2
13.1
72.0
Lebanon
Middle East
52.5
23.4
44.6
Malaysia
East Asia
30.8
13.5
43.8
Mexico
Latin America
26.4
10.5
39.8
Namibia
Gabon
24.7
18.8
76.1
Panama
Latin America
29.0
12.0
41.4
Peru
Latin America
35.1
14.0
39.9
Romania
Europe
44.3
16.7
37.7
South Africa
Africa
35.0
16.4
46.9
Turkey
Europe
22.0
9.7
44.1
Middle income lower
Bolivia
Latin America
24.7
11.6
47.0
Honduras
Latin America
25.9
12.1
46.7
Jordan
Middle East
33.0
14.6
44.2
Nigeria
Africa
31.2
21.9
70.2
Sudan
Africa
22.5
16.6
73.8
Low income
Mozambique
Africa
3.9
2.8
71.8
Tajikistan
Europe
13.2
6.2
47.0
Uganda
Africa
18.3
13.4
73.2
Vietnam
East Asia
16.2
7.1
43.8
Yemen
Middle East
35.1
15.6
44.4
Zimbabwe
Africa
19.0
14.1
74.2
High income
Australia
83.2
18.4
22.1
Italy
Europe
74.4
18.9
25.4
Japan
Asia
32.7
8.3
25.4
United States
North America
101.1
19.0
18.8
: (a) bold type indicate higher mortality: incidence ratios than South Africa, (b) income classification based on World Bank list of economies (July 2009) [8], (c) incidence rate (IR): number of new cases of breast cancer per 100,000, age-standardized to the world population (ASR), (d) mortality rate (MR): Number of deaths due to breast cancer per 100,000 (ASR), (e) Mortality to Incidence Ratio = MR/IR, (f) IR and MR from GLOBOCAN 2002 [13].
