Appraising the quality of sub-Saharan African cancer registration systems that contributed to GLOBOCAN 2008: a review of the literature and critical appraisal

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 57-67

  Crocker Buque, Tim ^a   Pollock, Allyson M ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cancer; epidemiology; global health; GLOBOCAN; sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; BOTSWANA; BURKINA FASO; CAMEROON; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER REGISTRY; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CODING; CONGO; COTE D'IVOIRE; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DEMOGRAPHY; GABON; GAMBIA; GUINEA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KENYA; MALAWI; MALI; NAMIBIA; NIGER; NIGERIA; PUBLICATION; RWANDA; SOUTH AFRICA; SWAZILAND; TANZANIA; UGANDA; VALIDITY; ZAMBIA; ZIMBABWE; CLASSIFICATION; DISABLED PERSON; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; DATA COLLECTION; DISABLED PERSONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NEOPLASMS; PREVALENCE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REGISTRIES; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84924787368     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: 17581095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0141076814554671     Document Type: Article

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