The cancer registry community sympathises with the loved ones left behind by Dr Guillermo Tortolero-Luna, former Director of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences at the University of Puerto Rico Comprehensive Cancer Center and co-director of the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry.
Read IARC's message here: https://www.iarc.who.int/fr/news-events/dr-guillermo-tortolero-luna/
Dr Tortolero-Luna actively supported and worked in many international cancer registry activities, including those of the International Association of Cancer Registries (IACR) and the Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development (GICR). He served as a keynote speaker at IACR's 2018 Scientific Conference in Arequipa, Peru, and shared the experience of the Puerto Rico Central Cancer Registry's transformation into an epidemiologic cancer Surveillance System.
