Plan Cancer Registry II

• Cancer registries are critical for public health surveillance, health planning, policy development, and improving the quality of cancer care.
• While Georgia’s population-based cancer registry (PBCR), established in 2015, has significantly strengthened cancer data collection, several challenges persist as the system continues to grow.
• Key issues include suboptimal data completeness, inconsistencies in disease-staging information, and limitations in the use of mortality data.
• Findings from the C/Can Tbilisi Needs Assessment highlighted data quality and completeness as a major cross-cutting challenge affecting cancer planning, evaluation, and decision-making.

To improve the quality, completeness, and coverage of cancer data in the Tbilisi Cancer Registry to support effective cancer surveillance, planning, evaluation, and resource allocation.

• Support the National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) in strengthening data quality within the Tbilisi Cancer Registry.
• Address gaps in staging data and improve data completeness through the integration and use of mortality data.
• Disseminate the Cancer Registry Operations Manual previously developed and endorsed by the Ministry of Health.
• Train key stakeholders and institutions contributing data to the cancer registry.
• Map institutions feeding into the registry to assess IT infrastructure, data variables, and reporting processes.
• Leverage technical support from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) through assessments, site visits, and ongoing expert supervision.