Regional workshop to enhance Member States’ capacities in establishing and operating cancer registries in support of comprehensive cancer control: Report
The IAEA has been supporting Member States’ cancer-related capacity and competency, through the technical cooperation (TC) programme on radiation medicine and related safety and security aspects, and since 2005, through the PACT, to ensure that radiation medicine programme is integrated into the comprehensive cancer control approach. The IAEA, in consultation with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), and in line with the Member States’ imPACT Review recommendations, decided to hold a regional workshop to strengthen Member States’ capacities in establishing or strengthening cancer registration and surveillance in support of effective cancer control planning. The workshop targeted IAEA Member States in anglophone Africa and complements the February 2016 workshop held in Brazzaville for francophone Africa.