VIGICANCER: Understanding “real-world” clinical outcomes in children
and adolescents with cancer in Colombia to inform cancer control policy
Abstract
Given scarce data on childhood cancer outcomes in Colombia and
discrepancies among hospital-based, population-based, and government
registries, we implemented VIGICANCER, a childhood cancer clinical
outcomes surveillance system to collect, analyze, and disseminate valid,
reliable, and timely data. VIGICANCER has expanded to ten Colombian
cities, achieving inclusion of 55-60% of children nationwide.
VIGICANCER yields key, exhaustive, and actionable population-based
information, guides multilevel interventions, and informs public policy
while providing timely feedback to participating institutions.
VIGICANCER’s systematic results have positioned our childhood cancer
surveillance system as a successful model in Latin America, reproducible
in other low–and middle-income countries with similar contexts.