Table 1.

Estimated number of incident cases, number of deaths, and number of 1-year prevalent cases among women in sub-Saharan Africa, by region, 2012

	Age-standardised incidence (per 100,000 women)	Age-standardised mortality (per 100,000 women)	Number of prevalent cases over one year (thousands)
Central Africa	26.8	14.9	8.9
Eastern Africa	30.4	15.6	27.0
Western Africa	38.6	20.1	33.3
Southern Africa	38.9	15.5	8.4

Source: Ferlay J, Soerjomataram I, Ervik M, Dikshit R, Eser S, Maters C, Rebelo M, Parkin DM, Forman D, Bray F (2013) GLOBOCAN 2012 v1.0, Cancer Incidence and Mortality Worlwide: IARC CancerBase No. 11 [Internet]. Lyon, France. International Agency for Research on Cancer. Available from: http://globocan.iarc.fr, accessed on 1st April 2018

See Additional file 1 for regional classification of SSA countries