Official websites use. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites. Newly-diagnosed cancer cases β of IACC were collected. A total of malignant neoplasms were recorded. After excluding duplicates, missing data and non-melanoma skin cancers cases, a final number of cancer cases was considered valid for analysis.
From new cases, were males and females. Of all cases, 9. Most of the cases were residents from the Luanda district. The five most common cancers for all periods were breast For men, Comparison of our data onto the 5 most frequent tumours, by sex, according to GLOBOCAN estimations for Angola, highlights the potential deviation from reality that estimates may have and reinforces the urgent need to build a truly population-based cancer registry in Luanda.
To accomplish that task, it is mandatory to implement a more rigorous quality control program at the hospital-based cancer registry at IACC and to optimize the network of health institutions that actively working on and contributing to the cancer registry, in Luanda. In Africa, infectious diseases are still a common and an important public health challenge; however, these disease patterns are changing, with a significant increase in the incidence rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cancer.
Increased life expectancies and changing lifestyles, in addition to the high prevalence of specific infections are important contributing factors to the increased cancer burden [ 1 ]. Cancer registries are an important public health surveillance tool by providing a census of cancer cases and are a major source of critical information for the planning of cancer control measures such as prevention, early detection, treatment and care [ 2 ].
In , Armando A et al. Acknowledging this potential, in AFCRN experts recommended consolidating the existing IACC cancer registry and transforming it into a population-based cancer registry for the region of Luanda.
