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registries that can provide a continuous stream of highquality data in most countries. This would imply availability
of adequate resources to register all patients with cancer
in a timely fashion, the right to access up-to-date national
or regional death records to establish their vital status, the
legislative stability to operate efficiently over the long term,
and the autonomy to deploy all their data for research. n
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Pamela Minicozzi and Veronica Di Carlo for
their help in analysing the questionnaires and preparing the figures.
Professor Claudia Allemani is Professor of Global Public Health
at LSHTM. Her main interests are in international comparisons of
cancer survival, "high-resolution" studies on patterns of care, as
well as the estimation of avoidable premature deaths, with a focus
on their impact on cancer policy. She has 20 years' experience in
this domain. She is co-Principal Investigator of the CONCORD
programme for the global surveillance of cancer survival and
Principal Investigator of VENUSCANCER.
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