Quality of data from cancer registries in the Eastern Mediterranean region

Routinely collected variables such as age, sex, stage, geographical location, and treatment can help to answer a multitude of questions about the distribution of risk factors, success of early detection efforts, and disparities in cancer survival.1 Population-based cancer registries exist in 16 of t...

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Published in:The lancet oncology 2022-04, Vol.23 (4), p.449-451
Main Authors: Alkhalawi, Eman, Znaor, Ariana, Al-Zahrani, Ali Saeed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cancer
Collaboration
Cooperation
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Data Management
Displaced persons
Geographical distribution
Health surveillance
Humans
Medical records
Medical research
Mediterranean Region - epidemiology
Mortality
Neoplasms - epidemiology
Population
Registration
Registries
Risk factors
Tumors
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Summary:Routinely collected variables such as age, sex, stage, geographical location, and treatment can help to answer a multitude of questions about the distribution of risk factors, success of early detection efforts, and disparities in cancer survival.1 Population-based cancer registries exist in 16 of the 22 countries or territories that make up the Eastern Mediterranean region: the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia), Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, the occupied Palestinian territory, and Sudan. Besides not using their full potential to answer important research questions, data that are not used frequently are less likely to be regularly assessed for quality metrics . [...]the Gulf Centre for Cancer Control and Prevention (initially The Gulf Centre for Cancer Control and Registration) has gained political support to make cancer a notifiable disease, in which there is a legal requirement for health-care facilities to give tumour registrars access to cancer patient records, paving the way for the development of high-quality population-based cancer registries, with national coverage in four of the Gulf Cooperation Council states (Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia).
ISSN:1470-2045
1474-5488
DOI:10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00072-9