National cancer data and care coordination

Tanzania Cancer Platform for connected care, surveillance, and research

A public-facing overview of the national platform supporting cancer registration, referral coordination, treatment monitoring, data quality, and evidence generation across Tanzania.

Explore the platform Authorized staff access
31Regions represented
4Referral levels
7Core platform layers
60M+People served nationally
National cancer intelligence viewIllustrative public summary, no patient-identifiable data
Northern ZoneKilimanjaro, Arusha, Tanga, Manyara
Lake ZoneMwanza and surrounding referral facilities
Central ZoneDodoma and central referral pathways
Coastal ZoneDar es Salaam national referral services
Southern HighlandsMbeya and regional oncology pathways
Public pages show programme information only. Clinical records, patient identifiers, and operational dashboards require authenticated access.
Why it exists

A national foundation for cancer information

Tanzania needs reliable, timely, and interoperable cancer information from screening and diagnosis through treatment, referral, follow-up, survival monitoring, and research reporting.

The Tanzania Cancer Platform is designed to support a national cancer programme, not a single hospital. It brings together facility-level workflows, referral pathways, registry functions, and public health reporting into one coordinated digital environment.

The platform can support cervical, breast, ovarian, prostate, childhood, haematological, and other cancer services. It helps facilities move from disconnected paper registers and spreadsheets toward structured, longitudinal, auditable data.

Public users can read general information on this landing page. Authorized health workers and programme staff use the secure application for patient care, facility operations, registry work, analytics, and governance.

Facility and referral coordinationConnects registration, appointments, treatment events, referrals, and follow-up across levels of care.
Registry and public health reportingSupports incidence monitoring, data quality checks, programme indicators, and DHIS2-ready reporting.
Privacy and governanceRole-based access, audit logs, de-identification, and Tanzania Personal Data Protection Act alignment.
Healthcare professionals reviewing patient information
The platform is intended for coordinated cancer care and programme monitoring across Tanzania.
Platform architecture

Seven layers for a complete national cancer platform

The system is organized around practical layers that can be deployed progressively by facility, region, programme, or national implementation phase.

Layer 01Patient and facility foundation

Unique patient records, facility profiles, referral sources, demographics, consent, and visit history.

Layer 02Clinical care pathway

Diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery, toxicity, and surveillance.

Layer 03Laboratory and imaging

Structured pathology, tumour markers, haematology, renal function, radiology summaries, and safety checks.

Layer 04Appointments and tracing

Reminders, missed appointment flags, community follow-up, survival ascertainment, and referral completion.

Layer 05Registry data quality

Completeness scoring, duplicate detection, validation rules, audit trails, and approved corrections.

Layer 06Analytics and decision support

Population dashboards, risk stratification, programme indicators, survival analysis, and explainable models.

Layer 07Security and compliance

Role-based access, encrypted sensitive fields, immutable logs, de-identified exports, and governance controls.

FutureInteroperability expansion

DHIS2 bridge, cBioPortal research exports, EMR/LIMS interfaces, and offline-friendly field workflows.

Capabilities

Useful to care teams, programme managers, and researchers

The public view below summarizes system capabilities without exposing patient data.

Care coordination
Registry
Analytics
Security
Longitudinal cancer recordTracks the patient journey from screening and diagnosis to treatment, follow-up, recurrence, and outcome.
Referral pathway visibilityShows where patients enter, where they are referred, and whether referral appointments are completed.
Reminder and tracing workflowsSupports appointment reminders and structured follow-up for missed visits and long-term outcomes.

Care pathway snapshot

Illustrative distribution of programme activities

Structured cancer registry fieldsCaptures required registry data elements with validation and completeness monitoring.
Duplicate detectionHelps prevent and resolve duplicate patient entries while preserving audit history.
Approved reporting outputsSupports facility, regional, national, and research-ready aggregate outputs.

Registry completeness

Example field completeness dashboard

Programme dashboardsShows aggregate trends by cancer type, region, facility, age group, stage, and treatment pathway.
Survival and outcome analysisSupports follow-up based outcome monitoring with correct handling of censored observations.
Research collaborationEnables de-identified exports for approved analyses, publications, and multi-site studies.

Analytics layers

Illustrative maturity view

Role-based accessClinicians, nurses, registry staff, managers, researchers, and administrators see only the data their role allows.
Immutable audit trailEvery sensitive action can be logged for accountability and governance review.
De-identification and consentResearch outputs can be de-identified, aggregated, and governed by approved data sharing rules.

Security controls

Defense-in-depth public summary

Referral network

Designed for Tanzania's cancer service network

The platform can support national, zonal, regional, district, and partner facilities as implementation grows.

Zonal referral

Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre

Moshi, Kilimanjaro. Northern zone oncology and referral services.

Gyne-oncologyReferralTraining
 National referral

Muhimbili National Hospital

Dar es Salaam. National referral services and specialist care.

OncologySurgeryDiagnostics
 Cancer institute

Ocean Road Cancer Institute

Dar es Salaam. National cancer treatment, research, and radiotherapy services.

RadiotherapyChemotherapyResearch
Regional facilities

Regional referral hospitals

Support screening, diagnosis, referral, treatment follow-up, and community tracing.

ScreeningReferralFollow-up
District services

District health system

Important entry points for early detection, patient navigation, and survivorship support.

NavigationCHWOutreach
Partners

Academic and public health partners

Approved collaborators can support research, training, governance, and technical implementation.

ResearchTrainingGovernance
Public access

What the public page provides

This landing page is intentionally open. It presents general information only, while the operational system remains protected behind authentication.

General platform informationPurpose, scope, capabilities, and national implementation context.
Stakeholder overviewHow clinicians, registry teams, managers, researchers, and public health programmes benefit.
No patient recordsNo patient names, identifiers, clinical data, or private dashboards are exposed publicly.
Authorized staff sign-inHealth workers and programme staff access secure functions through the login page.
Secure access

Authorized users can continue to the platform

Clinical records and operational dashboards require approved accounts. Public visitors can continue reading this page without signing in.

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