PAHO-IARC Collaboration Planning Meeting on Cancer Registries ( Quito, Ecuador, 23–24 April 2009)

PAHO Meeting in Collaboration with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France

Improving cancer information in the Region: Expert group meeting completes mid-term planning of special collaboration between IARC and PAHO.

The Cancer Registries of Quito and Guayaquil in Ecuador, Cali in Colombia, Bahia Blanca in Argentina, Barbados, and the National Cancer Institute (INCA) in Brazil participated in this special meeting to plan a special collaborative project between PAHO and the IARC.

For more information and meeting documentation, read below ...

•  Agenda
•  List of Participants
•  Five-Year Strategic Plan
•  First-Year Activities

Summary

Following active and productive participation, a Task Force was organized to support the preparation of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between PAHO and IARC to begin carrying out a joint five-year strategic plan and, in operational terms, planning activities for the first year. Agreement was made to:

• Finalize the joint proposal for collaboration and a draft MoU.
• Report on the meeting on cancer registries and the 2009–2014 plan to MERCOSUR Working Group (GT) 11 in Asunción, Paraguay, and at the Meeting of the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) on 2–3 June 2009 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
• With the Task Force, plan two events in Brazil for this fall:
  • Regional Meeting on Improving Cancer Information in the Americas on 28–29 September 2009
  • Train-the-Trainers Workshop for Cancer Registrars on 30 September – 2 October 2009.

Coordinators: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it , PAHO/WHO; Maria Paula Curado, IARC/WHO