Milestones
| 1947 | Charity Hospital Tumor Registry, New Orleans The CHTR provided data on treatment and survival for the NCI’s “End Results” program, particularly among African Americans before 1973. |
| 1974 | Louisiana Tumor Registry, a SEER registry Population-based cancer registration begins in Louisiana, covering the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan (3-parish) Area. |
| 1979 | Program is transferred to State Office of Public Health |
| 1982 | Cancer becomes a reportable disease |
| 1983 | Population-based cancer registration expands to cover all of south Louisiana. |
| 1988 | Statewide Coverage Achieved Population-based cancer registration expands to cover north Louisiana. |
| 1995 | The Louisiana Tumor Registry is transferred to LSU Health Sciences Center. |
| 2001 | SEER Expansion Registry The LTR is selected as one of four new expansion registries to join the NCI’s SEER program. Data from the LTR represent cases of cancer that occur in a state with a large rural African-American population, a unique Acadian/Cajun population, and a population marked by high cancer mortality rates and high poverty levels. |