{"id":45127,"date":"2026-09-10T09:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45127"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T07:22:42","slug":"sa-marks-40-years-of-cancer-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-marks-40-years-of-cancer-surveillance\/","title":{"rendered":"SA marks 40 years of cancer surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is today commemorating 40 years of cancer surveillance in South Africa (SA), marking four decades of efforts to strengthen the country\u2019s understanding of cancer and its impact on public health.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The milestone also recognises the contribution of the SA NCR in collecting and analysing cancer data to support evidence-based decision-making.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Over the past four decades, cancer surveillance has provided important information on the incidence and distribution of different types of cancer across the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>This data has helped researchers, healthcare professionals and policymakers identify trends and inform strategies aimed at cancer prevention, early detection, treatment and care.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">The NCR was established in 1986 and has spent the past 40 years tracking cancer incidence through pathology-based surveillance, generating valuable data to better understand the cancer burden in SA and inform cancer prevention, control and care.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":28508,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-45127","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"NICD is commemorating 40 years of cancer surveillance in SA","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45128,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45127\/revisions\/45128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}