Table 1.
The extent to which each of the 26 sub-Saharan African cancer registries meets the 15 quality criteria, as adapted from Parkin and Bray (2009). (See Table 2 for definitions of variables A-E by domain.).
| Country (name of registry) | Quality variables |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comparability A, B, C, D, E | Validity A, B, C, D, E | Timeliness A, B | Completeness A, B, C | Total | |
| UK (National Cancer Registry)14 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 14 |
| Botswana* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Burkina Faso (Ouagadougou)* | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Cameroon (Yaounde)* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Congo (Brazzaville)* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Cote d'Ivoire (Abidjan)*16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Gabon (Gabon)*17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Guinea (Conakry)*18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kenya (Eldoret)*19 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Kenya (Nairobi)* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Malawi (Blantyre)*20,21 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Mali (Bamako)*†‡ | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Namibia* | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Niger (Niamey)* | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Nigeria (Ibadan)*22,23 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Nigeria (Ilorin)*22,23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Rwanda (Butare)*24 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| South Africa (South Africa)*25,26 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Swaziland* | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Tanzania (Kilimanjaro)* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Tanzania (Dar Es Salam)* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| The Gambia*†‡27–30 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 |
| Uganda (Kampala)*†‡31–35 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| Uganda (Mbarara)*36 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Zambia* | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Zimbabwe (Harare, black population)*†‡37–39 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| Zimbabwe (Bulawayo district)* | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
*
IARC, Cancer in Africa (2003).
†IARC, Cancer in 5 Continents IX (2007).
‡IARC, Cancer in 5 Continents VIII (2002).
All other sources listed in Appendix 2.