Cancer of the ureter in a Negro population

A 13-year retrospective study of ureteric tumours in an African Negro population is reviewed. The tumour is rare. Seven cases were reported, six of them admitting to smoking over 50 packets of cigarettes per year. All the tumours were of the transitional cell type and prognosis is related to grade and staging. Nephroureterectomy with excision of a cuff of bladder was the treatment given. Follow-up was poor owing to illiteracy.