Western Honduras Copán Population-Based Cancer Registry: Initial Estimates and a Model for Rural Central America.
Dalton Argean NorwoodEleazar Enrique Montalvan-SanchezJuan E CorralDagoberto Estevez OrdoñezAndrea A ParedesLucia B DomínguezAida A RodríguezLuis Eduardo BravoDouglas R MorganRicardo L DomínguezPublished in: JCO global oncology (2022)
The Copán-PBCR represents a successful model to develop cancer monitoring in rural LMICs. Innovations included the use of the REDCap platform and leverage of Health Ministry resources. This provides the first PBCR data for Honduras and the Central America Four and confirms that infection-driven cancers, such as gastric and cervical, should be priority targets for cancer control initiatives.