Quality assessment and variability in mortality statistics in Colombia: The importance of detail
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The Cancer Surveillance Branch of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) regularly provides timely updates on the GLOBOCAN estimates of cancer incidence and mortality for 185 countries (and territories) worldwide (1,2). The estimation methodology varies by country and region, depending on the coverage and quality of population-based cancer registry data, notably through data submissions to Cancer Incidence in Five Continents (CI5) and national vital registration data (1,2).
In Colombia, at the national and subnational level, the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología periodically prepares cancer incidence estimates by departments, in addition to analyzing official mortality rates by department (3,4). Such incidence and mortality information, available for 21 cancer types, constitute an invaluable input for planning cancer services and evaluating actions aimed at cancer control at national and departmental levels. It is important to highlight that, in the case of Colombia, mortality is a critical input in the incidence estimation model, given that the existing high-quality cancer population registries in the last volume of CI5 (Volume XI, 2008 -2012) covered less than 10% of the population (5,6).
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