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Comparison of incidence rates (newly occurring cases per unit population) and mortality rates in sub-Saharan Africa, showing that incidence and mortality are very close to each other. In 2012, the ratio for sub-Saharan Africa was 0.7 (448,000/626,000), compared with 0.4 (692,000/1,786,000) in North America (US and Canada) (from Cancer Atlas, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, 2014).
