IARC Scientific Publications – Cancer Survival in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Central America (SurvCan)

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announces the publication of cancer survival data from 27 population-based cancer registries in 14 countries in 'Cancer Survival in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Central America,' a follow-up to the 1999 volume entitled Cancer Survival in Developing Countries. This new volume, also available in electronic form on the internet (http://survcan.iarc.fr), includes survival data for the years 1990–2000 and represents data from three times as many cancer registries as in the earlier volume, and a vast increase in the number of cancer sites and patients.Read more