Aude Bardot

Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Data Availability Statement The data used in this study were obtained from the SURVCAN project. De-identified data for this project can be made available upon reasonable direct request to each cancer registry following local ethical and data request approval. Further data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT The authors declare no conflicts of interest. DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Data (de-identified) for this project can be made available upon reasonable direct request to each cancer registry following local ethical and data request approval. Aggregated data as published in this paper will be made public through the WHO Global Cancer Observatory. Further information is available from the corresponding author upon request.

Background Population-based cancer survival is a key measurement of cancer control performance linked to diagnosis and treatment, but benchmarking studies that include lower-income settings and that link results to health systems and human development are scarce. SURVCAN-3 is an international collaboration of population-based cancer registries that aims to benchmark timely and comparable cancer survival estimates in Africa, central and south America, and Asia.