Northern Africa, Central and Western Asia

Hub Principal Investigator

Associate Professor Dr Sultan Eser

IARC Hub liaison

Dr Ariana Znaor

Hub officer, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

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Izmir Cancer Registry, the first population-based cancer registry in Turkey, became the second IARC Regional Hub for Cancer Registration within the GICR programme in October 2013. The Hub aims to build capacity for cancer registration in low- and middle-income countries within Northern Africa, Central and Western Asia.

Coverage

The Hub covers 29 countries and territories: Northern Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia); Central Asia and Caucasus (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan); and Western Asia (Bahrain, Cyprus, West Bank and Gaza Strip, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen).