Cancer CARE Registry Philippines, or CARE PH, is a non-profit, non-stock, non-governmental foundation registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (Registration Number CN201704409). We created a WEBSITE APPLICATION as a tool for a Hospital-Based Cancer Registry System, maintained by an organization of healthcare champions, patients, and their caregivers.
In 2013, the Department of Health (DOH) through its Office of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases required the monthly submission by all hospitals of a list of all their patients with chronic diseases, including Congestive Heart Failure, Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease, Diabetes, and Cancer (link to AO 2013-0005). Such information, including treatments given, would be included in nationwide registries which would allow public health officials to determine the incidence of these diseases and also to prioritize public health activities of the DOH.
CARE Philippines started out as software tool that was made to facilitate the carrying out of the said DOH directive. It was created by Beatrice Jayme Tiangco, a practicing Medical Oncologist and Epidemiologist and Ric Parma a Health Information Technology specialist. Since its inception (2013), it has evolved into a loose organization of hospitals (CARE Hospitals) and their registry staff that use the CARE app as their hospital cancer registry (embedded into the hospital local area network) with a capacity to share their anonymized data with a secure and encrypted central database, and whose summary data is shared in this CARE Website. CARE Philippines has also partnered with various entities in the healthcare industry to bring other related programs and services – with its core as the website app – to benefit cancer patients.
On August 2019, the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of RA No. 11215, also known as the “National Integrated Cancer Control Act”, was signed into law where Rule VIII Section 29 mandates that all hospitals and clinics shall have their hospital-based cancer registry. By this time, CARE PH has forty-four member hospitals using the CARE App. Membership continues to grow.
CARE Philippines is DOST-certified as a science foundation, PCNC-certified, and has received BIR “Donee Status”.
CERTIFICATE
CERTIFICATE
VISION
Towards better healthcare for the Filipino cancer patient.
MISSION
Every preventable cancer averted, every screenable cancer detected, every cancer patient counted.
CARE PHILIPPINES TIMELINE
2013 Feb
DOH Administrative Order 2013-0005 ordering the creation of the Unified Registry System for Non Communicable Diseases (including cancer) published
2013-1015
Case report forms for different cancers created
2015 May
Beta testing of app started
2015 Aug
CARE logo created
2015 Oct
PSMO gives initial funding for CARE Philippines
2016 Jan
CARE Philippines app pilot tested in TMC and NKTI
2016 Jan to Jun
Roadshow begins (Baguio, Cagayan Valley, Dagupan, Cebu, Bacolod, Davao, Metro Manila)
2016 Jul
Courtesy call to Sec Ubial who directs CARE to DOH-KMITS (Knowledge Management and Information Technology Service)
2016 Aug
First meeting between Degenerative Diseases Office of DOH, KMITS and CARE
2017 Jan to Jun
Batangas, Zamboanga City, Zamboanga del Sur and Cotabato Medical Centers join CARE Philippines
2017 Feb to Apr
CARE meets Boards or Presidents of Specialty Oncology Societies (PCP, PCS, PSHBT, SGOP, PSP)
2017 Jun
CARE meets with PCP, PCS and PhilAm Life Foundation to discuss ALPHA Project
2017 Jul
CARE app installation in LAN of individual CARE hospitals begins CARE meets with Chair of Data Privacy Commission
2017 Aug
CARE participates in DOH Forum on Harmonization of Cancer Registry Forms
2017 Dec
CARE enters into Memorandum of Agreement with the ALPHA Alliance of PHILAM Foundation, the Philippine College of Physicians and Philippine College of Surgeons
2018 Feb
The First General Assembly of CARE Philippines is held at Novotel Gateway Cubao on 23 to 24 Feb 2018
2018 Jun
CARE receives certification as “DOST Accredited Science Foundation”
2019 Feb
National Integrated Cancer Control Act (NICCA) signed by Upper and Lower House of Congress. NICCA Mandates all hospitals must have a hospital cancer registry and regularly send registry data to DOH
2019 Apr
CARE Philippines is invited by Department of Health to join the Technical Working Group creating the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of NICCA
2019 Aug
DOH Secretary Francisco T. Duque signs the IRR of NICCA
2021 Nov
CARE PH’s long name expanded to Cancer CARE Registry and Research Philippines Foundation, Inc
2022 Mar
The Philippine Journal of Internal Medicine publishes The Creation and Maintenance of a Hospital-Based Cancer Registry System
2022 July
CARE PH submits to the DOH and the World Health Organization Philippine Office the final draft of the Philippine Cancer Center-Scientific Research Data Center Development Plan
CARE HOSPITALS
The following CARE hospitals now have the CARE app in their local area network and are set to start contributing data to the central server soon: Davao Doctors’ Hospital (DDH), Manila Medical Center, and Philippine General Hospital (PGH).
Luzon
Batangas Medical Center
Bicol Regional and Training Hospital
Cardinal Santos Medical Center
Chinese General Hospital
Dagupan Doctors Villaflor Memorial Hospital
Davao Doctors Hospital
East Avenue Medical Center
Makati Medical Center
National Kidney and Transplant Institute
Palawan MMG Cooperative Hospital
Philippine General Hospital
St Paul Hospital Tuguegarao
TMC Clark
TMC Pasig
Visayas
TMC Iloilo
Vicente Sotto Medical Center
Mindanao
Cotabato Regional and Medical Center
Cotabato Sanitarium Hospital
Metro Davao Research and Medical Center
Northern Mindanao Medical Center
Zamboanga City Medical Center
Zamboanga del Sur Medical Center
CANCER CARE REGISTRY PHILIPPINES FOUNDATION, INC. BOARD OF TRUSTEES
MANUEL FRANCISCO ROXAS
DR. AILEEN D. GURREA-HIDALGO
Internal Medicine-Medical Oncologist
Dr. Hidalgo is a graduate of Cebu Institute of Medicine. She had her Internal Medicine and Oncology training in the Philippine General Hospital.
As the sole practicing oncologist in the province of Zamboanga del Sur, Dr. Hidalgo has her hands full serving Zambusurians and other cancer patients from nearby provinces. She has an active private practice and also serves as Medical Specialist III in the DOH hospital. She’s very active in the local PCP, having served as past president of the PCP-Northwestern Mindanao Chapter.
Dr. Hidalgo is a firm believer of patient empowerment. With local doctors, lay advocates and cancer patients, she helped established KUMBATI! ZAMPEN CANCER SUPPORT GROUP last September 2022.
VICTOR GERARDO BULATAO
Treasurer
Mr. Victor Gerardo Bulatao, or Gerry, has been serving as an Independent Director on the Board of Land Bank of the Philippines from 2010 up to present.
He worked with the Federation of Free Farmers and Association of Major Religious Superiors in the 1970s and in various capacities in the Department of Agrarian Reform, including as Undersecretary in the 1990s.
A former Executive Director of the KAISAHAN tungo sa Kaunlaran sa Kanayunan at Repormang Pansakahan and the Consortium for Advancing People’s Participation through Sustainable Integrated Area Development (CAPP-SIAD), he now serves on the Boards of Trustees of KAISAHAN, Balay Mindanaw Foundation Inc. (BMFI) and Quidan Kaisahan Negros Occidental (QK) and is a member of the Galing Pook Foundation (GPF). These NGOs are into agrarian reform and rural development, participatory local governance, peace building, disaster relief and rehabilitation, alternative learning systems, and awards for excellence and innovation in local governance.
He has an AB Philosophy degree, cum laude, from the Ateneo de Manila University, and studied at the Harvard Kennedy School as an Edward S. Mason Fellow to obtain a Master of Public Administration diploma.
JHADE PENEYRA
Past President, Philippine Society of Medical Oncology
Dr. Jhade Lotus Peneyra is a practicing internist-medical oncologist. She attained her medical degree from De La Salle Health Sciences Institute and completed her internal medicine residency and medical oncology fellowship training in the UP-Philippine General Hospital. She has held several positions in the Governing Council of the Philippine Society of Medical Oncology (PSMO) and its specialty board for certifying medical oncologists. She is the current President-elect of the PSMO. Aside from academic teaching positions, she also serves as chair of the Section of Medical Oncology and oncology units in her affiliated hospitals. Her interests include phase III clinical trials, patient empowerment through education and development of support groups, mentoring and inner peace.
NECY JUAT
Chairman
Necy Juat is a people person, a connector, and therefore, by nature, a patient-centered physician, whose clinical practice is in the field of Medical Oncology.
She received her medical degree from UERRMC in 1997. She went on to finish her Residency in Internal Medicine and Fellowship in Medical Oncology at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute in Quezon City. It is at the NKTI where she honed her skills and learned the Science and Art of healing patients afflicted by cancer, and her patients love her practice of it.
Necy is also an active member of the Camera Club of the Philippines. Beyond the stethoscope, that same heart and love for life reveals itself through her camera lens, onto her photographs. Through them one can feel eternity captured in that millisecond the shutter clicks, as if the say Here and Now, life is good.
RIC PARMA
Chief Information Officer
Co-Founder of CARE Philippines
Ric Parma was a scholar of the Ateneo de Manila where he finished his course in BS Mathematics in 1988. He went on as Systems Analyst, for Avellana & Associates, Inc. His work experience includes being Head of Computer Graphics, AV Plus, Inc, Development Head, Pivotal Technologies, Inc, Managing Director, Hot Hand, Inc, and Partner, Tinkerspace, Inc.
BEATRICE J. TIANGCO
President and Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder of CARE Philippines
Dr. Beatrice Jayme Tiangco (Trixie) has a practice in Medical Oncology. She received her Medical Degree, her Internship credentials and had her Residency Training from UP College of Medicine and the UP-Philippine General Hospital.
Dr. Tiangco had her Fellowship Training in Medical Oncology University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. She returned to Manila under the Balik Scientist Program of the Department of Science and Technology. She then went for her Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of the Philippines.
Dr. Tiangco’s professional memberships include: Fellow, Philippine Society of Hematology and Blood Transfusion; Past President, Philippine Society of Medical Oncology; Founding Member Philippine Society of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Fellow, Philippine College of Physicians; Lifetime Member, Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society; and Lifetime Member, Society for Participatory Medicine.
She is the Project Leader and Co-founder of the Cleofe M. Bacungan Servant Leadership Endowment Fund, a project to mentor Servant Leaders from the Philippine Science High School System. She is Co-Founder and President of the Cancer CARE Registry Philippines, Inc.
Currently she serves as Director of the Augusto P. Sarmiento Cancer Institute of The Medical City in Pasig. Dr. Tiangco is also a Medical Specialist II Consultant and Administrative Head of Medical Oncology at the National Kidney and Transplant Institute.