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Enhancing Population-Based Cancer Registration in Kenya Through Training of Cancer Registry Personnel

Anne Korir

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Union for International Cancer Control
The overall aim of this training is to strengthen cancer registry capacity in Kenya, to produce quality data for use in planning, performing and evaluating cancer prevention and control services in Kenya.There are currently five cancer registries established and three targeted to begin this year. The training will aim at harmonizing the tools for use in Cancer Registries for ease of merging the data into one Central database and to avail that data to the Ministry of Health and all other stakeholders for use in cancer control. The training will cover principles and methods of developing cancer registries, coding and classification using international Classification of Diseases for Oncology, Staging using TNM, follow up methods to determine cancer survival, time trends and analysis including use of Canreg5 database.

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