Stage at diagnosis and survival by stage for the leading childhood cancers in Rwanda.
Lydia BusingeMarc HagenimanaMelitah MotlhaleAude BardotBiying LiuKathryn AnastosPhilip E CastleGad MurenziKimilu ClaireDaniel SabushimikeCallixte CyuzuzoGallican KubwimanaTheoneste ManiragabaFrancois UwinkindiMaggie PaczkowskiIsabelle SoerjomataramDonald Maxwell ParkinPublished in: Pediatric blood & cancer (2024)
This study is only the second to report on stage distribution and stage-specific survival for childhood cancers in sub-Saharan Africa. It demonstrates the feasibility of the Toronto Stage Guidelines in a low-resource setting, and highlights the value of population-based cancer registries in aiding our understanding of the poor outcomes experienced by this population.