Current Status of Cancer Registration in the Caribbean (as at May 2018)


Fewer than 10 Caribbean countries and territories have a population-based cancer registry and less than half of these registries have met international quality standards:

High-Quality1 Population-based Cancer
Registry
  • French Guiana
  • Martinique
  • Puerto Rico
High-Quality1 Sub-National Cancer
Registry
  • Jamaica (UWI, Mona Campus)
Population-based Cancer Registry
  • Barbados
  • Bermuda
  • Cayman Islands
  • Cuba
  • Curacao
  • Dominican Republic
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guyana
  • Jamaica (Ministry of Health)
  • Trinidad and Tobago
Hospital-based Cancer Registry
  • Suriname
Cancer Registry Activity
  • Aruba
  • Bahamas
  • Belize
  • Grenada
  • St. Lucia
  • US Virgin Islands

1 Data is considered 'high-quality' based on acceptance to IARC's CI5 publication (see latest volume at: http://ci5.iarc.fr/CI5-XI/Default.aspx)

 

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