Registre des Cancers de Cotonou

The African Cancer Registry Network page says cancer registration in Benin began in 2013 with a pathology registry at the Cotonou medical school, and that in 2014 the Ministry of Health established a population-based registry under the national programme against non-communicable diseases, which finances it. It covers the city of Cotonou (678,874 people, 2013 estimate), collecting actively from 28 sources (9 hospitals, 14 private clinics and 5 private pathology laboratories), with the national teaching hospital (CNHU) the most important. The national cancer plan of January 2024 reports 1,086 cases registered in 2014 to 2016 (608 in women, 478 in men), age-standardised incidence of 78.4 per 100,000 in women and 91.8 in men, and prostate cancer as about a quarter of men's cancers, while noting the data are not exhaustive. The coordinates are an approximate Cotonou city point.