# Namibian National Cancer Registry

Source: https://onco.cc/institutions/namibia-national-cancer-registry/  
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## TL;DR

Namibia's population-based cancer registry, run from the offices of the Cancer Association of Namibia in Windhoek. It records cancers across the whole country from pathology reports and the two main cancer centres.

## Summary

The African Cancer Registry Network's undated page says the Namibian National Cancer Registry began in 1995, when the Rössing Uranium mine, the Ministry of Health's oncology clinic and the Cancer Association of Namibia collected all cancers reported to the Windhoek state pathology laboratory and the one private laboratory from 1979 to 1994; active registration of pathology and clinical cases then began in four sentinel regions. It is population-based, covering all of Namibia (2,104,900 people at the 2011 census), and is based at and largely funded by the Cancer Association of Namibia, with some costs met, the page says, by the International Association of Cancer Registries and the African Cancer Registry Network; cases diagnosed in South Africa are re-routed to it through a network of registries technically supported by IARC. Cases come mainly from the Dr A.B. May Cancer Care Centre, the Namibia Oncology Centre and pathology reports, with copies of death certificates available from 2016; the page notes there is no active case finding. Data moved from CanReg4 to CanReg5 in 2010. The coordinates are an approximate city point for Windhoek.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-11-11
- Also known as: NNCR; Namibia National Cancer Registry
- City: Windhoek, NA
- Type: research-institute
- Website: https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list/125-nambiancr

## Sources

- African Cancer Registry Network: Namibian National Cancer Registry: https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list/125-nambiancr
- African Cancer Registry Network: member registries: https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list

## Connected records

- technologies: [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/)
- institutions: [Cancer Association of Namibia](https://onco.cc/institutions/cancer-association-of-namibia/), [Dr A.B. May Cancer Care Centre, Windhoek Central Hospital](https://onco.cc/institutions/windhoek-central-hospital-oncology/), [International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/iarc/), [Ministry of Health and Social Services, Namibia](https://onco.cc/institutions/namibia-ministry-of-health/), [Namibia Oncology Centre (NOC)](https://onco.cc/institutions/namibia-oncology-centre/)

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