Showing papers by "Donald Maxwell Parkin published in 2016"

TL;DR: Breast and cervical cancers account for 60.4% of all cancers in women, with breast cancer almost twice as common as cervix cancer and occurring in rather younger women, and there were moderate numbers of HIV-related cancers recorded.

TL;DR: Evaluating the funding, cost, and labor resources used to perform the cancer registry operations in Nairobi County for two annual periods between July 2012 and June 2014 found stable funding is necessary to sustain core registry activities in other to deliver high-quality data, which in turn is needed to foster evidence-based policies to improve cancer outcomes.