Three Years of Population-Based Cancer Registration in Kumasi: Providing Evidence for Population-Based Cancer Surveillance in Ghana

Cancer Registration is the systematic collection of data on cancers and the use of such information for action. Population-based cancer registration is not common practice in developing countries. Ghana has had no population-based cancer registry till 2012 when the Kumasi Cancer Registry was established. Established initially as a hospital-based cancer registry, the KsCR has made significant strides in the collection and analysis of data on cancers in Kumasi. We describe the operations of the registry and provide information on data analysis from information collected by the registry for the three year period 2012 to 2014.

Objective

To describe the operations and review data from the Kumasi Cancer Registry for the period 2012 to 2014