Freddie Bray

TL;DR: Based on their experience acquired at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in global cancer surveillance, this article reviewed crucial aspects to consider in the development of childhood cancer registration and presented their vision on how the Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development can accelerate the measurement of the outcome of children with cancer.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a method for approximating population-based incidence from the pathology-based data series available nationally for the years 2008 to 2013, and augmented this with data from the Iranian National Population-based Cancer Registry (INPCR), and fitted timelinear age-period models to the recent incidence trends to quantify the future cancer incidence burden to the year 2025, delineating the contribution of changes due to risk and those due to demographic change.

TL;DR: The results suggest that cancer registration involve substantial fixed costs and labor, and that partnership with other institutions is critical for the operation and sustainability of cancer registries in limited resource settings.

TL;DR: A consistent male excess in incidence rates overall and in the high-risk Eastern and Southern African regions is observed, suggesting that a substantial fraction of the African EC burden could be avoided by targeting gender-specific exposures.

TL;DR: This commentary describes key issues relating to cancer surveillance among indigenous populations including 1) suboptimal identification of indigenous populations, 2) numerator-denominator bias, 3) problems with data linkage in survival analysis, and 4) statistical analytic considerations.