Table 2:

Top five most commonly diagnosed cancers in men and women from small island nations in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and South China Sea²⁴

	Most frequent cancers in men					Most frequent cancers in women
	1	2	3	4	5	1	2	3	4	5
Bahrain	Colorectum	Lung	Prostate	Bladder	NHL	Breast	Colorectum	Ovary	Uterine	Thyroid
Cape Verde	Prostate	Stomach	Oesophagus	Lung	Liver	Cervix	Breast	Stomach	Colorectum	Liver
Comoros	Prostate	Oesophagus	Liver	NHL	Colorectal	Cervix	Breast	Oesophagus	NHL	Liver
Guinea-Bissau	Liver	Prostate	Stomach	Colorectum	NHL	Cervix	Breast	Liver	Colorectum	Stomach
Maldives	Lung	Colorectum	Nasopharynx	Liver	Prostate	Breast	Cervix	Ovary	Thyroid	Colorectum
Mauritius	Prostate	Lung	Colorectum	Stomach	Bladder	Breast	Colorectum	Cervix	Uterine	Ovary
São Tomé and Príncipe	Prostate	Lung	Stomach	Liver	Bladder	Cervix	Breast	Ovary	Lung	Stomach
Singapore	Prostate	Lung	Colorectum	Liver	Kidney	Breast	Colorectum	Lung	Uterine	Ovary
Timor-Leste*	Lung	Colorectum	Nasopharynx	Liver	Prostate	Breast	Cervix	Colorectum	Lung	Ovary

NHL=non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

^*In this Series, Timor-Leste is considered to be an Africa, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and South China Seas small island nation (rather than Pacific) because of its political and social ties with the south-east Asia region. Seychelles has been excluded. The value 1 represents the most commonly diagnosed cancer whilst the value 5 represents the fifth most commonly diagnosed cancer.