Fig 1.
Geographical distribution of the histopathology laboratories.
The geographical information system ArcGIS 10.3 for Desktop version 10.3.0.4322 was used to generate “Fig 1”. Sudan administrative divisions were downloaded from http://www.maplibrary.org/library/stacks/Africa/Sudan/index.htm, and uploaded in ARCGIS. All the administrative divisions of Sudan were first displayed as a layer. Then the limits of the layers corresponding to Sudan States were selected and saved. When the map was elaborated, the features of ArcGIS were used to convert the map into the figure. The capacity in geographical information system was introduced from 2015 in the University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan by Dr. Mounkaila Noma [18].
Fig 2.
Epidemiological distribution of Breast Cancer in female population in Sudan (n = 1135).
The geographical information system ArcGIS 10.3 for Desktop version 10.3.0.4322 was used to generate “Fig 2”. Sudan administrative divisions were downloaded from http://www.maplibrary.org/library/stacks/Africa/Sudan/index.htm, and uploaded in ARCGIS. All the administrative divisions of Sudan were first displayed as a layer. Then the limits of the layers corresponding to Sudan States were selected and saved. When the map was developed, the features of ArcGIS were used to convert the map into the figure. The capacity of the geographical information system was introduced from 2015 in the University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan by Dr. Mounkaila Noma [18].
Table 1.
Crude Prevalence (cases/100,000 population) of Breast Cancer in Sudan, data from eighteen histopathology laboratories located in Khartoum State (n = 1135).
Fig 3.
Breast Cancer risk map in Sudan (n = 1135).
The geographical information system ArcGIS 10.3 for Desktop version 10.3.0.4322 was used to generate “Fig 3”. Sudan administrative divisions were downloaded from http://www.maplibrary.org/library/stacks/Africa/Sudan/index.htm, and uploaded in ARCGIS. All the administrative divisions of Sudan were first displayed as a layer. Then the limits of the layers corresponding to Sudan States were selected and saved. When the map was elaborated, the features of ArcGIS were used to convert the map into the figure. The capacity of the geographical information system was introduced from 2015 in the University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan by Dr. Mounkaila Noma [18].