{"entity":{"id":"mauritius-national-cancer-registry","kind":"institution","name":"Mauritius National Cancer Registry (MNCR)","aka":["MNCR"],"tldr":"Mauritius' population-based cancer registry, set up in 1993 and covering the whole country including Rodrigues. Its data are included in the international series Cancer Incidence in Five Continents.","summary":"The African Cancer Registry Network's page says the Mauritius National Cancer Registry was set up in 1993 as a pathology-based registry at the Central Health Laboratory of Victoria Hospital, published its first report in 1999 (data from 1989 to 1996), and became population-based in 2001. It covers the whole Republic of Mauritius, including Rodrigues and the outer islands (1,260,767 people in 2023), uses CanReg5, has been an AFCRN member since 2013, and its data were included in volume 12 of Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (2024). Cases rose from 1,394 in 2001 to 2,841 in 2023; in 2023 the commonest cancers were prostate in men (age-standardised incidence 23.4 per 100,000) and breast in women (65.7 per 100,000). It sits in the Ministry of Health and Wellness at the NeXsky Building in Ebene. The coordinates are an approximate point for Ebene.","asOf":"2026-11-11","links":[{"label":"African Cancer Registry Network: Mauritius National Cancer Registry","url":"https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list/103-mauritius"},{"label":"African Cancer Registry Network: member registries","url":"https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list"}],"tags":[],"related":["cancer-registries-surveillance"],"cancers":["breast-cancer","prostate"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["mauritius-ministry-of-health","mauritius-national-cancer-centre","iarc"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"city":"Ebene","country":"MU","lat":-20.242,"lng":57.482,"institutionType":"research-institute","website":"https://afcrn.org/index.php/membership/membership-list/103-mauritius","programs":["Population-based cancer registration for Mauritius and Rodrigues (from 2001)","African Cancer Registry Network member registry"]},"route":"/institutions/mauritius-national-cancer-registry/","neighbours":{"technology":[{"id":"cancer-registries-surveillance","kind":"technology","name":"Cancer registries and population surveillance","route":"/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/"}],"cancer":[{"id":"breast-cancer","kind":"cancer","name":"Breast cancer (all types)","route":"/cancers/breast-cancer/"},{"id":"prostate","kind":"cancer","name":"Prostate cancer","route":"/cancers/prostate/"}],"institution":[{"id":"iarc","kind":"institution","name":"International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC / WHO)","route":"/institutions/iarc/"},{"id":"mauritius-ministry-of-health","kind":"institution","name":"Ministry of Health and Wellness, Mauritius","route":"/institutions/mauritius-ministry-of-health/"},{"id":"mauritius-national-cancer-centre","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Centre, Mauritius","route":"/institutions/mauritius-national-cancer-centre/"}]}}