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A case study of how Nigeria built a national network of cancer registries from 2009, the problems it met and how they were overcome, written as a guide for other low and middle income countries.
Published as "Developing National Cancer Registration in Developing Countries: Case Study of the Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries". The paper describes the Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries, conceived in 2009 by the Federal Ministry of Health, the Society of Oncology and Cancer Research of Nigeria and the Institute of Human Virology Nigeria with support from the United States National Institutes of Health. It coordinates registries, strengthens existing ones, establishes new ones, compiles and analyses data, and makes them available to researchers and policy makers. It traces registration back to the Ibadan registry founded in 1960, which contributed to the first three volumes of Cancer Incidence in Five Continents and later stopped submitting data, and records that the Ibadan, Abuja and Calabar registries contributed to GLOBOCAN 2012.
Explains why Nigeria's cancer figures rest on a few city registries and IARC models, and what it took to start building more.
Shares University College Hospital, Ibadan, National Cancer Registry of Nigeria.
Shares University College Hospital, Ibadan, National Cancer Registry of Nigeria.
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