Panato, Chiara
Abusamaan, Khaled
Bidoli, Ettore
Hamdi-Cherif, Mokhtar
Pierannunzio, Daniela
Ferretti, Stefano
Daher, Mahmoud
Elissawi, Fouad
Serraino, Diego http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3163-188X
Funding for this research was provided by:
Italian Ministry of Health – project title: “Sorveglianza epidemiologica per il controllo delle malattie neoplastiche nei paesi del Mediterraneo: dalla registrazione del cancro ai modelli statistici” ((Grant N.: I85J12000380005))
Article History
Received: 3 October 2017
Accepted: 24 May 2018
First Online: 4 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Cancer Registries are identified as collectors of personal data for surveillance purposes without the need of explicit individual consent. The approval of a research ethic committee is not required as this descriptive study was conducted without any direct or indirect intervention on patients. Nonetheless, The General Director (Dr. Fouad Elissawi) of the Primary Health Care, MoH, Gaza Strip, has cleared the use of registry data for study purposes (letter dated April 8, 2015).
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