CONICET | Buscador de Institutos y Recursos Humanos

The quality of cancer data depends on multiple factors including the accesibility to the data and the laws regarding confidentiality. Our data was included in CIV, 8th and 9th Edition, nevertheless it still needs to be improved. The main obstacles found are: insufficient economic Resources, lack of systematization concerning the way data is kept by the sources, lack of informatization in some of the hospitals and difficulties to get information from death certificates. METHODS: Strong advocacy has been made by our Association (the NGO affording the C R) regarding the necessity to improve Cancer Information in order to achieve the inclusion of this subject in the political agenda. RESULTS: The complaints and mobilization of two Bahía Blanca neighborhoods claiming that their cancer rates had risen, drove the local government representatives to promote an agreement between the Municipality, our Association and the National University for the South. Such agreement has been recently approved and, therefore, activities have started. CONCLUSION: Researchers from the informatics area, statisticians, geography and also a family physician were invited and selected to form our new organization. The main Multidisciplinary Group (MG) objectives are to create a soft-ware program in order to unify the data storage in the different sources, promote its use in all hospitals, clinics and laboratories, and advocate for new legislation regarding the access to cancer data and death certificates. The MG will also offer scholarships for advanced Health Sciences students in order to introduce them to cancer epidemiology.