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Article History

Received: 22 March 2024

Accepted: 19 November 2024

First Online: 5 December 2024

Declarations

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: The cancer registry of Martinique is authorized by the French Data Protection Authority, Commission National Informatique et Liberté (CNIL), authorization N° 987001 of november 16, 1987. (Date of last CNIL amendment: June 05, 2015) Given their public health mandate, French cancer registries are authorized by the French Data Protection Authority ‘Commission National Informatique et Liberté’ (CNIL), to collect data on cancer cases with a waiver for written informed consent (deliberation n°03–053 of November 27, 2003). Patients’ information is given by notices displayed in health care facilities, their attending physician or specialist. General information is also available on the National Cancer Institute website: . This study obtained ethics approval from the research ethic committee of the ‘Comité de Protection des Personnes Ile de France IV’ Institutional Review Board Agreement of US Department of Health and Human Services (n°IRB 00003835). The Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) was voted by the data protection officer of the University Hospital of Martinique (dpo@chu-martinique.fr) in accordance to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

: Not applicable. Consent for publication was not required since our project do not involve patients.

: The authors declare no competing interests.