Cancer Registry Importance in Bangladesh: A Review and A Mobile Application Based Solution

Abstract

In recent times, cancer becomes the major health issue. Cancer registry is challenging but a part of modern health care that creates awareness globally. Time has come, when Bangladesh has to give supreme priority to make a smart system for cancer registration to collect and manage proper database of the number of cancer patient, survivor rate, death rate and chronic condition for future analysis. . This review has twofold goals, first is propose an effective solution through a mobile app for cancer registry and second is suggest a efficacious method for cancer registration by exploring the cancer registry methods are available in journal articles. The increasing number of smart mobile phone user is immensely helping us in this purpose. In this paper two types of methods are used for cancer registry, one is community clinic based registry approach another is hospital based registry approach. Community clinic is the unique innovation in Bangladesh health care system, and this community clinic based cancer registry is first time going to be implemented through this paper. Base on reviewing the features of apps and surveying on 100 of people including doctors, cancer patients and CHCP, we become able to propose an app of cancer registry. Apps were collected from August 2018 to March 2019 and data was analyzed in April 2019.