PRESS STATEMENT
DIRECTOR GENERAL OF
HEALTH MALAYSIA
THE MALAYSIAN
NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY REPORT
Cancer is undeniably one of the
most important non-communicable diseases in Malaysia and contributed to 13.56%
of all deaths occurred in the Ministry of Health Hospitals in 2015.
It was the third most common
cause of death following the death caused by diseases of circulatory system
(22.77%) and diseases of the respiratory system (18.54%).
Recent publication on cancer
registration for Malaysia is the Malaysian National Cancer Registry Report
2007-2011, which was published by National Cancer Institute on it’s website
www.nci.moh.gov.my in October, 2016.
As reported by the MNCR
2007-2011, a total number of 103,507 new cancer cases were diagnosed in
Malaysia during the period of 2007 to 2011, of which 46,794 (45.2%) were
reported in males and 56,713 (54.8%) in females.
As stated in the report the risk
of males getting cancer was 1 in 10 and for females was 1 in 9. The five most
common cancers among males were cancers of the colorectum (16.3%), lung
(15.8%), nasopharynx (8.1%), lymphoma (6.8%) and prostate (6.7%).
Among females, the five most
common were cancers of the breast (32.1%), colorectum (10.7%), cervix uteri
(7.7%), ovary (6.1%) and lung (5.6%).
The next MNCR report will be for
the data of 2012-2014. The registry is now in the process of completing the
collection of these data.
Currently, the registry depends
on the voluntary and manual data notification. The notified new cancer cases
will then be verified and coded accordingly before being entered into the data
base.
Data search at the medical record
offices are also being carried out to ensure that the data collection for all
new cancer cases are complete and included in the registry.
Understandably, this complex and
laborious process in completing the data collection and data verification will
require a lot of time and effort before it can be ready for analysis and to
produce a credible report.
As a way forward, The Malaysian
Cancer Registry is moving towards automation of cancer notifications.
Electronic data collection for cancer will be the key to more efficient and
effective management of data for the future.
This is why efforts and steps has
been taken where a system called Patient Registry Information System (PRIS) is
developed by Health Informatics Centre (HIC), Ministry of Health Malaysia and
will be rolled out soon. PRIS is a web application whereby, data can be
registered electronically and eventually flows into the Malaysia Health Data
Warehouse (MyHDW). This system is expected to assist faster data collection and
will ease publication of registry’s report.
Thank you.
DATUK DR. NOOR HISHAM ABDULLAH
Director General of Health Malaysia
25th November 2016
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