{"entity":{"id":"guam-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Guam Cancer Registry","aka":["GCR"],"tldr":"Guam's cancer registry, set up by law in 1998 and run from the University of Guam, which counts every cancer among Guam residents.","summary":"The Guam Cancer Registry was established in 1998 by Public Law 24-198 to collect cancer data from all health-care providers and non-medical sources in its jurisdiction, and in 2004 became a unit of the Cancer Research Center of Guam, a joint venture of the University of Guam, Guam's Department of Public Health and Social Services and the University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, according to the University of Guam's registry page. Its data are used for cancer control, clinical services, patient support, healthcare financing and research; its five-year update reported one person diagnosed with cancer every day and one resident dying of cancer every 2.3 days in Guam. Coordinates are Nominatim's point for the University of Guam.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"University of Guam: Guam Cancer Registry","url":"https://uog.edu/research/guam-cancer-registry"}],"tags":[],"related":["cancer-registries-surveillance"],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["fhp-health-center-guam","guam-regional-medical-city","guam-memorial-hospital"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Mangilao","country":"GU","lat":13.432,"lng":144.803,"institutionType":"research-institute","website":"https://uog.edu/research/guam-cancer-registry","programs":["Population-based cancer registration (from 1998)","Cancer Research Center of Guam"]},"route":"/institutions/guam-cancer-registry/","neighbours":{"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}],"institution":[{"id":"fhp-health-center-guam","kind":"institution","name":"FHP Health Center, Guam","route":"/institutions/fhp-health-center-guam/"},{"id":"guam-memorial-hospital","kind":"institution","name":"Guam Memorial Hospital","route":"/institutions/guam-memorial-hospital/"},{"id":"guam-regional-medical-city","kind":"institution","name":"Guam Regional Medical City","route":"/institutions/guam-regional-medical-city/"}]}}