National cancer registry set up

Government-funded project aims to improve future prevention and control of disease across the country

China is setting up a national cancer registry to fully understand the extent of the disease in the country and to help improve cancer prevention policies.

Chen Wanqing, deputy director of the national cancer registry center, under the Ministry of Health, said so far the government-funded project has set up more than 220 surveillance sites across the mainland, covering some 200 million people.