© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_18 Epidemiology and Mechanism of Carcinogenesis of Schistosomiasis Birgitte Jyding Vennervald1 (1) Section for Parasitology and Aquatic Diseases, Faculty of Health and…
(1) Department of Geography, Paris Est Créteil University (UPEC), Paris, France KeywordsLDCsEmerging countriesSocio-economic contextMalignant diseases The tropical area is the hot and humid part of the world. It does…
Fig. 4.1 Low- and middle-income countries by the World Bank income category, 2004—all tropical countries fall in this category (Source: Data from the World Bank (2005)) 2 What Is Cancer…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_7 Pathology and Cancer Research Joyce Balagadde-Kambugu1, Lynnette Kyokunda Tumwine2 and Jackson Orem3 (1) Pediatric Oncology Service, Research and Training Directorate, Uganda Cancer Institute,…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_1 Oncology in the Concept of Tropical Medicine: To Be or Not to Be? Bernard Carme1 (1) Parasitology and Tropical Medicine,…
Fig. 1 Incidence of the top cancers per HDI The lifestyles in many developing countries in the tropics are in a state of transition from traditional to “modern,” with its…
Fig. 1 Estimated number of cancer cases attributable to different infectious agent for the developing world in 2002 References 1. de Martel C, Ferlay J, Franceschi S, Vignat J, Bray…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_8 Transcultural Mediation in the Management of Cancer Patients in the Tropical Area Serge Bouznah1 and Stéphanie Larchanché2 (1) Medicine and Adolescent…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_15 Epidemiology of Epstein-Barr Virus and Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis Maria Raffaella Ambrosio1 and Lorenzo Leoncini1, 2 (1) Department of Medical Biotechnology, University of…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Jean-Pierre Droz, Bernard Carme, Pierre Couppié, Mathieu Nacher and Catherine Thiéblemont (eds.)Tropical Hemato-Oncology10.1007/978-3-319-18257-5_5 Precarity, Social Organization, and Outcome on Cancer Management in the Tropical Areas Sandro Vento1 and Olof Ståhl2 (1) Department of Internal…
