Table 2.
Disease and treatment characteristics of patients with cancer treated with systemic therapy in Rwanda (n = 239) during 2022.
Disease site | N (%) |
Breast | 100 (42) |
Colorectal | 57(24) |
Cervical | 58(24) |
Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 13(5) |
Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma | 11(5) |
Stage of the disease | N (%) |
Stage I | 5(2) |
Stage II | 36(15) |
Stage III | 92(39) |
Stage IV | 37(16) |
Not mentioned | 63(26) |
Missing | 6(3) |
Treatment setting/intent | N (%) |
Neo adjuvant | 57(24) |
Adjuvant | 98(41) |
Palliative | 59(25) |
Definitive (eg, lymphoma) | 12(5) |
Temporalizing chemo (eg, Cervix, NPC) | 4(2) |
Missing | 9(4) |