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Botswana's population-based cancer registry, run by the Ministry of Health since 1999. It collects cancer cases from hospitals, laboratories, death certificates and oncology clinics across the country.
The African Cancer Registry Network's page says the Ministry of Health set up the Botswana National Cancer Registry in 1999, with help from the International Association of Cancer Registries, to measure cancer incidence and its distribution, identify risk factors and evaluate cancer control. Its first report, in 2005, counted 2,000 malignant cancers registered from 1986 to 2004 (56.7 per cent in women), and the page gives more than 16,000 cases by 2012. It is population-based, collecting cases from referral and district hospitals through notification, laboratory and death certificate forms, hospital discharge abstracts, the Integrated Patient Management System and interviews in oncology clinics, and is staffed within the Non-Communicable Diseases Programme. The coordinates are an approximate city point for Gaborone.
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