Activities

ChildGICR Childhood Cancer Registration online course in the Caribbean, autumn 2024

An online course will be run from 15 October to 12 November 2024 to promote childhood cancer registration and implementation of international standards.

The course is organised by the the IARC Caribbean Cancer Registry Hub, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), Trinidad and Tobago, under the auspices of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Call for applications is open for health professionals involved in population-based cancer registration in the following target countries:

Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Aruba; The Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bermuda; Bonaire, Saba, St. Eustatius; British Virgin Islands; The Cayman Island, Curaçao; Dominica; France, Martinique; France, Guadeloupe; France, St Martin; Grenada; Guyana; Haiti; Jamaica; Montserrat; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Sint Maarten; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands.

Read more and apply today and until 21 July 2024!

ChildGICR Childhood Cancer Registration online course in Tbilisi, Georgia, 19-23 June 2023

An online course was run in June 2023 to promote childhood cancer registration and implementation of international standards.

The course was organised in collaboration with the National Center for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), Tbilisi, Georgia, under the auspices of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The course was completed by 30 health professionals involved in population-based cancer registration in the following countries: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Türkiye, and Ukraine.

ChildGICR Childhood Cancer Registration online courses

Two online courses were run in September 2022 to promote childhood cancer registration and implementation of international standards.

The courses were organised by Cancer Institute (W.I.A) in Chennai and Vietnam National Cancer Institute in Hanoi respectively, under the auspices of the International Agency for Research on Cancer and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Each course was completed by 29 health professionals involved in cancer registration and medical practice with interest in childhood cancer, who are active in the following countries:


Of the 58 professionals trained in the three regional courses, 54 (93%) confirmed that the course inspired them to promote childhood cancer registration as part of their working activities.

First ChildGICR Masterclass

As part of the ongoing activities of the GICRNet to form networks of regional trainers on specific topics in cancer registration,we held the ChildGICR Masterclass from April to June 2021. Overall, 22 participants from 18 countries completed the Masterclass. In working groups, they developed teaching material on seven topics, identified in a preceding survey of educational needs.

Development of each topic was supported by a senior advisor according to a provided brief outline. The participants benefited from hands-on experience and learning opportunities through their mutual interaction. In a post-course assignment, completed in July 2021, the participants designed courses for an audience in their region, using the developed knowledge, skills and material.

The ultimate aim of the Masterclass was to increase the capacity of generating data on childhood cancer in population-based cancer registries.

The successful graduates of the Masterclass were proposed to become part of the GICRNet, a network of regional trainers, whose mission is to disseminate their expertise to those who need assistance in the six IARC Hub regions.

The outcomes of the ChildGICR Masterclass 2021 on childhood cancer registration are:

  • Defined priority topics for training and dissemination;
  • Standard teaching material for the defined topics;
  • A network of trainers ready to share and exchange their knowledge;
  • A training deployment plan; and,
  • Trainers' development programme.


Participants built a solid support network of collaborators to rely on during dissemination of their acquired expertise in the childhood cancer registration within their regions, in different languages.

Equipping the Masterclass participants with the skills relevant to registration of childhood cancers facilitates knowledge dissemination and leads to an improvement of quality of childhood cancer data collected in low- and middle-income countries. These data are necessary for planning and evaluating cancer control plans and for research activities. In the framework of the GICRNet, participants built a solid support network of collaborators to rely on during dissemination of their acquired expertise in the childhood cancer registration within their regions, in different languages.

Participants of the online ChildGICR Masterclass, in April 2021.

Workshop of the Masterclass alumni network

The graduates of the ChildGICR Masterclass will meet at a workshop in Lyon in **October 2024**.

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the potential for further development of expertise in childhood cancer registration, and how the ChildGICR programme can support the trainers in their mission.

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