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The Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (GICR) David Forman Head, Section of Cancer Information Cancer registries at the core of planning for cancer control Descriptive epidemiology

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The Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (GICR)

David Forman Head, Section of Cancer Information

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Cancer registries – at the core of planning for cancer control

Descriptive epidemiology

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Population-based cancer registries play a central role in cancer control programmes because they provide the means to plan, monitor and evaluate the impact of specific interventions in targeted populations.

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Definitive sources of global cancer information

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1.1 (5/5) 5.5 (11/7) 80.5 (11/2) 4.0 (44/15) 83.0 (54/2) 32.5 (100/29) 11.6 total (225/60)

Cancer Incidence in Five Continents

% population covered by cancer registries in Vol. IX (number of registries/number of countries providing data)

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The Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development

To develop capacity in LMICs to produce reliable,

high-quality information on the burden of cancer – a key response to the UN Political Declaration on NCD in Sept 2011.

It proposed the establishment of a global network
f regional hubs to provide support, training and

infrastructure to local networks of cancer registries

GICR is an IARC initiative, backed by a number of

major international partners

Fundraising program being developed with UICC

with a minimum target $5m over 5 years http://gicr.iarc.fr/

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Partners’ meeting, held at IARC in July 2011
Unveiled at the UICC World Cancer Leaders

Summit in November 2011

First IARC Regional hub for the Asia region

established at the Tata Memorial Centre in Mumbai (India) in 2011

Second hub being launched in 2012 in Izmir

(Turkey) [with support from Centre for Global Health, NCI, USA and the Cancer Control Department, Ministry of Health of Turkey]

African Cancer Registry Network (ACRN)

launched in 2012 [collaboration led by Dr Max Parkin, INCTR with support from ACS, USA]

Next steps: Establishment of hubs in

Latin-America and Caribbean with local partners (RINC)

The Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development

http://gicr.iarc.fr/

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Other year one achievements: Regional training courses (Africa/French- speaking; Asia; Latin America/ Spanish- speaking); Technical Support expert visits, CanReg5 (in person, email, webinars) Collaborative Research Agreements (Asia), peer- reviewed articles; mapping and surveys Advocacy Factsheets; Community of Practice; high-level communications in international fora and with national authorities

The Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development

http://gicr.iarc.fr/

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Year two activities: Presence in all developing regions of the world Enhanced training material – online and distance learning Integrated research program with monograph publications Systematic online global status reports regarding registry activity Scale-up of advocacy and fundraising programs

The Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development

http://gicr.iarc.fr/

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Place cancer and its surveillance firmly
n the emerging global non-communicable

diseases agenda

Bring quantum improvements in cancer

registration in low and middle income countries

Enhance the quality of global cancer

statistics for the benefit of cancer control

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