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VOLUME 4, No 2 August 2014 Edition

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�Nigerian�National�System�of�Cancer�Registries�(NSCR)

Newsletter of the

The�NSCR�was�conceived�in�2009,�as�a�collaborative�effort�

between�the�Institute�of�Human�Virology�Nigeria�(IHVN),�

Federal�Ministry�of�Health�(FMOH)�and�cancer�registries�

of�federal�health�institutions�in�Nigeria.�The�main�

objective�of�this�program�is�to�provide�data�from�Nigeria�

cancer�registries�on�the�most�common�cancers,�cancer�

incidence�and�cancer�mortality�statistics.

Edited by: Dr. Elima Jedy-Agba, Dr. Emmanuel Oga

and Dr. Michael Odutola

Designed by: Akinkunle Oyafajo

Project PI: Dr. Clement Adebamowo MD, ScD

Project Administrator: Yinka Owoade

In�this�issue:

NSCR in Brief

Report of NSCR site monitoring visits to Sokoto and Enugu Cancer Registries

Ekiti Cancer Registry training and establishment Feature article

NSCR publications and research collaborations

NSCR News

Acknowledgement

Closing remarks

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Newsletter of the Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries

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NSCR Site Monitoring Report

Sokoto Cancer Registry site visit

Enugu Cancer Registry site visit

Report of NSCR site monitoring visits to Sokoto and Enugu Cancer

Registries

The NSCR with the mandate of strengthening cancer registration in Nigeria by

providing technical support and capacity building through training and

mentoring of cancer registry staff, carried out a monitoring and mentoring visit to

Sokoto and Enugu Cancer Registries. These monitoring and mentoring visits

provided an opportunity to evaluate data quality and ensure best practices in

cancer registration according to international standard.

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okoto Cancer Registry (SCR) came into existence in November, 2013. The registry was

Sestablished by NSCR as a population-based cancer registry to improve coverage of cancer

registration in Nigeria. SCR, located in the Histopathology Department of the Usmanu

Danfodio University Teaching Hospital (UDUTH) Sokoto, Northwestern population-based Cancer

Registry, Nigeria. The registry has been defined to cover Sokoto North, Sokoto South and Wamakko

Local Governments with a combined population of 609,944 people.

The registry was visited by Dr Michael Odutola of NSCR from 13-16 April, 2014, to evaluate its

activities in its 5 months of existence. During the site visit, the registry database was checked for

consistency, registrations practices were re-examined and on-site training provided to the registry

staff. Advocacy visits were made with the cancer registrar to data sources within and outside UDUTH.

The data sources outside UDUTH visited were the Specialist Hospital, Sokoto; Medi-Stop Diagnostic

Center, Sokoto; Maryam Abacha Women and Children Hospital, Sokoto; Sokoto Clinic, Sokoto and

Women and Children Welfare Clinic, Sokoto.

From left to right: Front- Dr Odutola Michael, Mrs Vivian Imuh; Back- Dr Sahabi S.M, Mr Hummad Sahidu, Mr Mohammed Tanko-Rambo




Sokoto Cancer Registry site visit

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A brief meeting was held with Dr Yakubu Ahmed (Chief Medical Director of UDUTH), Prof Itseh Kufre

(SCR director) and Mr Mohammad Tanko-Rambo (Cancer Registrar) during the visit. The progress

made by the registry was discussed and pending logistic issues were resolved. The CMD

commended the effort of NSCR in reviving cancer registration in Nigeria, especially in the Northern

region of the country and reiterated his commitment and support to the registry.

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Sokoto Cancer Registry site visit Contd.


nugu Cancer Registry (ECR) started in 1988 and functioned as a Hospital Based Cancer

ERegistry until 2012 when the registry was upgraded to Population Based Cancer Registry

status. ECR is located in the Oncology Department of the University of Nigeria Teaching

Hospital (UNTH) Enugu, Southeastern Nigeria. The registry covers Enugu metropolis and

surrounding communities comprising of Enugu East, Enugu North, Enugu South, Awgu and Nkanu

Local Government Areas with a population of 1,103,153 people.

Dr Elima Jedy Agba of NSCR visited the registry from 23-26 June, 2014 as part of the monitoring and

mentoring activities of NSCR. The activities of the registry were reviewed; data checked for quality

control and data sources within and outside UNTH were visited.

A visit was paid to the Acting Chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee Dr. O Onodugo by the

Registry Director, Prof. Ezeome, Dr. Elima Jedy-Agba and the Cancer Registrar Ms. Ann Okoroafor. The

progress made by the ECR was discussed and the recent abstract accepted for presentation at the

UICC World Cancer Congress in Melbourne Australia in Dec. 2014 was also mentioned.

From Left to Right: The Cancer Registry director, Prof. E Ezeome, NSCR monitoring team member, Dr. E Jedy-Agba, Cancer Registrar Ms. Ann Okoroafor and the acting CMAC of UNTH Dr. Onodugo during the advocacy visit to the hospital management.

Enugu Cancer Registry site visit





The key challenges facing the registry such as finance,

unstable power supply and lack of internet facilities were

discussed. The acting CMAC commended the registry director

for the meaningful progress made despite the challenges and

promised that the hospital management would try to meet

the requests made by the registry.

ECR Staff and member of NSCR monitoring team at the Enugu Cancer Registry




Enugu Cancer Registry site visit Contd.


From Left to Right: Dr Michael Odutola (NSCR) and Mr Joshua Inubile (ECR staff) during the training session

Ekiti Cancer Registry training and establishment

A staff of the Ekiti Cancer Registry (ECR) was sponsored

by the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital

(ESUTH) to visit NSCR for training on Cancer

Registration Methods. This training took place between the

23rd and 25th of July, 2014 at the Institute of Human Virology

Nigeria (IHVN) training room in Abuja, Nigeria. The training

attended by Mr Joshua Inubile, was organized with the

objective of setting up and building the capacity of the ECR as a Population Based Cancer Registry.

The training focused on basic cancer registration methods and principles of data abstraction,

collation and analysis.

The Ekiti Cancer Registry population has been defined to cover Ado, Ikere, Irepodun-Ifelodun, Ido-Osi, Ekiti Southwest Local Government Areas with a population of 918,866 people.

From Left to Right: Mr Joshua Inubile (ECR staff), Dr Elima Jedy-Agba and Dr Michael Odutola (NSCR)





Figure 1: Population table for registry coverage area (2006 National census)




Distribution of Population by Five Year Age Groups and Sex

Age Groups Total Males Females

EKITI CANCER REGISTRY

TOTAL 918666 462,981 455,685

0 - 4 99531 51,015 48,516

5 - 9 110059 57,513 52,546

10 - 14 116697 60,888 55,809

15 - 19 118889 59,702 59,187

20 - 24 118333 56,620 61,713

25 - 29 82684 39,643 43,041

30 - 34 55575 25,702 29,873

35 - 39 46966 21,230 25,736

40 - 44 41951 21,371 20,580

45 - 49 33994 17,717 16,277

50 - 54 29428 16,380 13,048

55 - 59 15765 8,362 7,403

60 - 64 17074 9,439 7,635

65 - 69 8853 4,554 4,299

70 - 74 8671 5,317 3,354

75 - 79 4160 2,308 1852

80 - 84 4847 2,443 2,404

85+ 5189 2,777 2,412


Cancer registry coverage area




Indicates local governments covered by the registry.

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Feature Article

rs. Chinyere Chukwubuike is the Data Abstractor of the Abuja Cancer Registry which is

Msituated at the National Hospital Abuja. She graduated from University of Abuja as an

economist and holds a National Diploma Certificate in Health Information

Management from Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital. Zaria, Nigeria

Mrs. Chukwubuike is a pioneer staff of the registry which started as a hospital based cancer registry in

2006 and was upgraded to a Population Based Cancer Registry by 2009. The Abuja Cancer Registry is

supervised by a Registry Committee with the following members: Dr. Igbinoba Festus

(Oncologist/Radiotherapist), Dr. Jibril Paul (Pathologist) and Mrs. A. Abubakar (HOD/Asst Dir.

Records)

Mrs Chukwubuike has been privileged to attend local and international trainings on cancer

registration.




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She studied at the Ibadan Cancer Registry, Ibadan, Nigeria from 13th - 24th October 2008

She attended the Cancer Registration and Epidemiology at the Institute of Human Virology,

Abuja, Nigeria from 7th – 9th April, 2009.

She attended the Cancer Registration and Epidemiology (Quality Control in Cancer Registration)

at Institute of Human Virology Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria from 21st – 23rd Feb 2011.

She attended the IARC Summer School on Cancer Epidemiology in Lyon, France from 16th – 20th

June 2014. She says “The IARC Summer School on cancer Registration that I was privileged to

attend was educative and enlightening especially in the area of data quality control measures”.

Contd.Feature Article





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Abstracts Jedy-Agba E, Oga E, Odutola M, Ekanem I, Ezeome E, Igbinoba F, Ogunbiyi O, Otu T, Hassan R,

Osinubi P, Dakum P, and Adebamowo CA The Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries

(NSCR) – Developing national cancer registration in developing countries. Accepted for poster

presentation at UICC World Cancer Congress. December 3- 6, 2014. Melbourne, Australia.

Jedy-Agba E, Ezeome E, Oga E, Odutola M, Okoroafor A, Hassan R, Dakum P, and Adebamowo C,

Cancer Incidence in South Eastern Nigeria- First Results From the Enugu Cancer Registry.

Accepted for poster presentation at UICC World Cancer Congress. December 3- 6, 2014.

Melbourne, Australia.

NSCR News Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) announces the Call for Proposals for the 2015

American Cancer Society Beginning Investigators Fellowship (ACSBI). Follow link to apply:

http://www.uicc.org/programmes/global-education-and-training-initiative-geti/fellowships

The 2014 UICC World Cancer Congress will take place in Melbourne, Australia on 3-6 December

2014.


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Thank you for taking your time to read the issue of the newsletter.

CLOSING REMARKS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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The Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries is a collaboration between the Federal Ministry of Health

of Nigeria; IHVN; Greenebaum Cancer Center, Institute of Human Virology and Department of Epidemiology

and Public Health of the University of Maryland Baltimore.

NSCR acknowledges the support of Society of Oncology and Cancer Research of Nigeria (SOCRON),

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), International Prevention Research Institute (iPRI) and

African Cancer Registry Network (AFCRN).

The activities of the Nigerian National System of Cancer Registries are partly funded by IHVN-UM Capacity

Development for Research into AIDS Associated Malignancies Grant. (NIH/NCI D43CA153792-01)

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