Tumours in a Tropical Country

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Introduction Distribution of Tumours in Uganda

   • A. C. Templeton, M. S. R. Hutt

   Pages 1-22

3. Tumours of the Alimentary Canal

   • A. C. Templeton

   Pages 23-56

4. Tumours of Liver, Biliary System and Pancreas

   • M. S. R. Hutt, P. P. Anthony

   Pages 57-78

5. Tumours of the Respiratory Tract

   • G. T. O’Conor, A. C. Templeton

   Pages 79-93

6. Tumours of the Breast

   • A. C. Templeton

   Pages 94-100

7. Tumours of the Female Genitalia

   • P. D. James, C. W. Taylor, A. C. Templeton

   Pages 101-131

8. Tumours of the Male Genitalia

   • O. G. Dodge, R. Owor, A. C. Templeton

   Pages 132-144

9. Malignant Tumours of the Kidney, Bladder and Urethra

   • P. P. Anthony

   Pages 145-170

10. Melanoma

    • M. G. Lewis

    Pages 171-179

11. Tumours of the Skin

    • Ulla Iversen, Olav Hilmar Iversen

    Pages 180-199

12. Tumours of the Brain

    • A. C. Templeton

    Pages 200-202

13. Tumours of the Eye and Adnexa

    • A. C. Templeton

    Pages 203-214

14. Tumours of Endocrine Glands

    • A. C. Templeton

    Pages 215-221

15. Tumours of Bone and Jaw

    • O. G. Dodge

    Pages 222-233

16. Soft Tissue Tumours

    • A. C. Templeton

    Pages 234-269

17. Lymphoreticular Neoplasms

    • D. H. Wright

    Pages 270-297

18. Leukaemia

    • A. C. Templeton

    Pages 298-301

19. Tumours of Unknown Origin

    • A. C. Templeton

    Pages 302-305

20. Childhood Tumours

    • J. N. P. Davies

    Pages 306-320

The geography of medicine is a classical subject that can be studied wherever medicine is practised and the population counted. It has already contributed a great deal to knowledge of the causes of disease and it might be thought that the subject had little more to teach. This, however, is unlikely. First, there are many parts of the world that have only recently been provided with the full range of diagnostic services. Secondly, it is now realised that the ob­ servation that a disease occurs only very rarely under some conditions can be just as important as the observation that it occurs very often under others. Thirdly, the spread of industrializa­ tion has not yet eliminated the wide variety of conditions of life that has been produced by different cultures and different standards of living. We have still an opportunity to determine their effect on the incidence of disease, but not perhaps for long. That an interest in the geography of cancer can pay dividends is shown by many examples ranging from the relationships between cancer of the buccal cavity and chewing habits and between cancer of the lung and smoking, to the current enquiries relating Burkitt's lymphoma to malaria, cancer of the oesophagus to the comsumption of maize beer, cancer of the liver to food contaminated with aflatoxin, and cancer of the large bowel to the dietary content of fibre and fat.

• Tumours
• cancer
• esophagus
• liver
• lymphoma
• medicine
• tumor

• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

  A. C. Templeton

• Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  A. C. Templeton

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