# Direction des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales de la Nouvelle-Calédonie

Source: https://onco.cc/institutions/dass-new-caledonia/  
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## TL;DR

New Caledonia's government health and social affairs directorate. It keeps the territory's cancer registry, where cancer must by law be reported, and publishes a dashboard of cancer figures.

## Summary

The Direction des Affaires Sanitaires et Sociales de la Nouvelle-Calédonie manages the New Caledonia cancer registry and publishes a dashboard of cancer figures, last updated in September 2025 with contributions from the Alma and CHT pathology laboratories, ONCO NC, the CAFAT, the CHT, the ASS-NC and specialist doctors. Cancer has been a notifiable disease since 1994. The registry began in 1977 as a bureau of oncology statistics in the health service, passed to the Institut Pasteur de Nouvelle-Calédonie in 1985 and to the DASS in January 2011, and was requalified in January 2013. It registers all invasive primary tumours, all haematological malignancies, all central nervous system tumours, and in situ tumours of the breast, bladder, colon, cervix and melanoma; non-melanoma skin cancers have not been registered since incidence year 2009. The coordinates are the OpenStreetMap point for the Avenue Paul Doumer in Nouméa, the directorate's address.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: DASS-NC; DASS Nouvelle-Calédonie; New Caledonia Directorate of Health and Social Affairs
- City: Nouméa, NC
- Type: government
- Website: https://dass.gouv.nc

## Sources

- DASS Nouvelle-Calédonie: cancer and the cancer registry: https://dass.gouv.nc/votre-sante-maladies/le-cancer

## Connected records

- institutions: [CAFAT, Nouvelle-Calédonie](https://onco.cc/institutions/cafat-new-caledonia/), [Centre Hospitalier Territorial Gaston-Bourret](https://onco.cc/institutions/cht-gaston-bourret/), [Réseau d'oncologie de Nouvelle-Calédonie (ONCO NC)](https://onco.cc/institutions/onco-nc-network/)

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