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Table 1 Total cancer incidence per 100,000 of most common infection-associated cancers in North African countriesa: Globocan, 2012 [7]

From: A review of the infection-associated cancers in North African countries

 

Morocco

Algeria

Tunisia

Libya

Egypt

Bladder (Schistosoma haematobium)

5.8

5.9

8.3

8.6

13.1

Cervix uteri (HPV)

14.3

8.5

4.8

9.7

2.3

Liver (HCV and HBV)

1.2

1.5

1.1

4.8

25.5

Stomach (Helicobacter pylori)

4.0

6.0

4.2

3.7

2.5

Nasopharyngeal (EBV)

2.3

3.2

2.3

231

0.3

  1. aTotal cancer incidence (not only the incidence attributed to infectious agents)