Frere Hospital is a provincial government-funded referral hospital situated in East London in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. It has an Oncology and Radiation Department that offers oncology services to patients coming from municipalities of Buffalo City, Amathole, OR Tambo, Chris Hani, uKhahlamba, Alfred Nzo and Cacadu. A few patients from Nelson Mandela Municipality and even outside the Eastern Cape Province are also treated. Hospital-based cancer incidence has been investigated periodically since the late 1950’s in this setting. This study sets out to examine trends in the radiotherapy administrative data system.

View the complete Cancer Registry, Frere Hospital, East London, Cancer Indicence 1991 - 2009 Report